Michael John Wooldridge
Also known as Michael Wooldridge
Michael John Wooldridge researches multiagent systems, strategic reasoning and AI foundations. He founded AgentLink in 1997 and researches computational economies, negotiation and game theory. AAAI elected him a Fellow in 2008. After a Liverpool professorship, he joined Oxford in June 2012 and headed its computer-science department from 2014 to 2021. He received a Turing AI fellowship in 2021 and gave the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures in 2023. His work combines technical research, shared institutions and education.
- Now at
- University of Oxford
- Works
- 735
- Citations
- 46,984
- h-index
- 76
Publication numbers from OpenAlex, as of 14 October 2026.
Timeline
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1997
A European agent-research network
Wooldridge founded AgentLink in 1997. The European-funded network connected work on agent-based computing. This institutional contribution complemented research on interacting AI systems, the logical representation of their behavior and the decisions they make in shared environments.
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2008
Recognition for multiagent research
AAAI elected Wooldridge a Fellow in 2008. His research includes strategic reasoning, complexity and equilibria, cooperative game theory and automated negotiation. These topics connect formal AI methods with situations where several agents’ interests and choices affect each other.
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2011–2012
Computational economies and Oxford
He received a 2011 ERC advanced grant on Reasoning About Computational Economies. He joined Oxford on June 1, 2012, after a twelve-year Liverpool professorship.
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2014–2023
Academic leadership and public explanation
Wooldridge headed Oxford computer science from 2014 to 2021. He received a 2021 Turing AI fellowship and gave the 2023 Royal Institution Christmas Lectures. He also wrote books for technical and general audiences. His career combines multiagent foundations with shared institutions, education and public explanation of AI.
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