Fernando P. Santos

I am an Associate Professor at the Informatics Institute of the University of Amsterdam (Socially Intelligent Artificial Systems (SIAS) group where I lead the Prosocial Dynamics Lab). One day per week I work as a Research Fellow at ING. I am also a member of the Earth Resilience and Sustainability Initiative (https://earthresiliencesustainability.org). Previously, I was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Princeton University, under the supervision of Simon A. Levin and supported by a James S. McDonnell Foundation Fellowship. I completed my PhD (2018) at Instituto Superior Técnico (IST, Lisboa) under the supervision of Francisco C. Santos, Jorge M. Pacheco and Ana Paiva (Summa Cum Laude, 2018 Victor Lesser Distinguished Dissertation Award (by IFAAMAS), Best Doctoral Thesis in Artificial Intelligence 2017-2018 (by Associação Portuguesa para a Inteligencia Artificial) and 2018 INESC-ID best PhD Student award). My research work lies at the interface of AI and complex systems: I am overall interested in understanding collective dynamics in multiagent systems and in designing fair/pro-social AI. From January to March 2017 I was a visiting student at Université Libre de Bruxelles, working under the supervision of Tom Lenearts (Machine Learning Group). From March to July 2017 I was a visiting student research collaborator (VSRC) at Princeton University, working under the supervision of Simon A. Levin (Levin Lab, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology).