Jaime Simão Sichman

Jaime Simão Sichman is a Full Professor of the Computer Engineering and Digital Systems Department (PCS) of Escola Politécnica (EP) at the Universidade de São Paulo (USP), Brazil. He has obtained both his B.E. and M.E. degrees in Electrical Enginnering from USP. He was one of the first students to obtain an European label to his PhD degree in Computer Engineering, developed at the Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble (INPG), France, since part of his research was carried out at the Istituto di Psicologia del CNR, Rome, Italy. More recently, he has spent an abbreviated post-doctoral period at the University of Utrecht, at the Netherlands. His main research focus is multi-agent systems, more particularly in subjects like social reasoning, organizational reasoning, multi-agent-based simulation, reputation and trust, and interoperability in agent systems. He is co-director of the Laboratório de Técnicas Inteligentes (LTI) at USP, where he also held the position of director of the Electronic Computing Center (CCE) from 2010 to 2013. He has advised/co-advised 12 PhD, 20 MsC, and several undergraduate students. He has published more than 215 papers in national and international conferences and journals. He is member of the editorial board of the Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation (JASSS), the Knowledge Engineering Review (KER), the International Journal on Agent-Oriented Software Engineering (IJAOSE), Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory (CMOT) and Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (JAAMAS). He has organized several national and international conferences and workshops; in particular he was the SBIA/IBERAMIA General Chair (2000), Program Co-Chair (2006), and AAMAS Tutorial Chair (2007), Program Co-Chair (2009), Local Chair (2017) and Worskhop Co-Chair (2020). He was the coordinator of the Artificial Intelligence Special Interest Group (CEIA) of the Brazilian Computer Society (SBC), and was also a member of the Society’s Council. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (IFAAMAS). He was indicated as a Distinguished Speaker of the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) in 2012.