Researcher

Vincent Conitzer

Vincent Conitzer earned his computer science doctorate at Carnegie Mellon in 2006. He coauthored work with Tuomas Sandholm on computing an optimal strategy to commit to. The same EC 2006 paper received the 2022 IFAAMAS Influential Paper Award. His study of strategic commitment connects to research on autonomous agents and computational decision making. Conitzer directs Carnegie Mellon’s Foundations of Cooperative AI Lab. He coauthored the 2024 book Moral AI with Jana Schaich Borg and Walter Sinnott-Armstrong and researches cooperation and agent behavior.

Works
503
Citations
10,669
h-index
53

Publication numbers from OpenAlex, as of 14 October 2026.

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Timeline

  1. 2006

    Doctoral research

    Vincent Conitzer earned his computer science doctorate at Carnegie Mellon in 2006. He coauthored work with Tuomas Sandholm on computing an optimal strategy to commit to.

  2. 2022

    Strategic commitment recognition

    The same EC 2006 paper received the 2022 IFAAMAS Influential Paper Award. His study of strategic commitment connects to research on autonomous agents and computational decision making.

  3. 2024 and later

    Cooperation and ethics

    Conitzer directs Carnegie Mellon’s Foundations of Cooperative AI Lab. He coauthored the 2024 book Moral AI with Jana Schaich Borg and Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, and researches cooperation and agent behavior.

Sources and credits

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  1. Vincent (Vince) Conitzer cs.cmu.edu. Checked 13 October 2026.