Fernando P. Santos
Associate Professor, University of Amsterdam.
L5.11, Lab 42,
Science Park 900,
1098 XH Amsterdam
I am an Associate Professor at the Informatics Institute of the University of Amsterdam. I am part of the SIAS group, where I lead the Prosocial Dynamics Lab and I am a scientific lab manager of the Civic AI Lab.
My research lies at the interface of AI and Complex Systems: I study behavioral dynamics in systems of adaptive learning agents and aim at designing prosocial/fair AI (more info).
Previously, I was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Princeton with Simon A. Levin, supported by a James S. McDonnell Foundation Fellowship. I completed my PhD in Computer Science and Engineering (2018) at Instituto Superior Técnico with Francisco C. Santos, Jorge M. Pacheco, and Ana Paiva; my work received the Victor Lesser Dissertation Award (2018), the APPIA Best Thesis in AI (2017-2018) and the INESC-ID PhD Student award (2018). I was selected for the AAAI-23 New Faculty Highlights program.
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| Oct 24, 2024 | Just back from a fantastic ECAI, where Alex presented his work on Indirect Reciprocity in Hybrid Populations and Dimitris presented on Multi-objective RL applied to Public Transit Design. Well done! I’m also very happy with the Doctoral Consortium —- really rewarding to see so many commited PhD students and exciting ideas! |
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| Sep 24, 2024 | Travelling to the USA (Boston and Cambridge) — very excited to give a talk at the Network Science Institute and participate in the Building a Bigger and Better US conference at MIT Sloan! |
| May 1, 2024 | May is time for AAMAS 2024! I’ll give a keynote talk at the Social Choice and Learning Algorithms Workshop, participate in the Doctoral Consortium Carreer Panel and present joint work with Martin. See you in Auckland! |
| Mar 21, 2024 | Very excited to be awarded an NWO-M grant to study Cooperation and reputation in multi-agent reinforcement learning. More info via UvA and NWO. |
| Nov 13, 2023 | I’m giving an invited talk at the Center for Mathematical Biology, University of Pennsilvanya. |
| Sep 5, 2023 | I’ve been awarded an ERC Starting Grant to study the impacts of algorithmic recommendations on social dynamics, with project RE-LINK! We have 3 open PhD positions to work in this project! Check some news about the ERC StG results and the RE-LINK project by Técnico, UvA, Exame Informática and Público. |
| Aug 30, 2023 | I will be an invited speaker in the 2023 Dutch NetSci Summer Symposium! More info. |
| Jul 3, 2023 | I’ll be giving two invited lectures on the topics of Cooperation, Reputation and Polarization at the 2023 FEBT Summer School on Behavioral Economics (Split, Croatia). More info here. |
| May 29, 2023 | Excited to participate onsite in AAMAS once again, after 3 virtual years! I’m speaking in the Doctoral Consortium panel on carreer advice for PhD students. My group will present 3 papers in the main conference (1 full, 2 posters) and 3 papers in satellite workshops (ALA and C-MAS). See you in London! |
| Apr 18, 2023 | I’ll participate in a conversation on Bias and Metrics in AI at the Institute of Advanced Study (Amsterdam), more info. |
| Feb 13, 2023 | Excited to be an invited speaker at the 2023 AI For Behavioral Change Workshop, co-located with AAAI’23. More info at AI4BC website. |
| Feb 10, 2023 | Happy to be selected to the AAAI 2023 New Faculty Highlights! Will give a talk summarizing my work and research agenda on Feb 10th at AAAI’23 (Washington DC, USA). |
| Jun 8, 2022 | I’m giving an invited lecture, on Fairness in AI, at the Data Futures Lab (Amsterdam University College), a course coordinated by the amazing Paul Verhagen. |
| Nov 7, 2015 | A long announcement with details |