Bio

Kobi Gal is a Professor in the Department of Software and Information Systems Engineering at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and Reader in the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh, received his PhD in Computer Science from Harvard University.

Gal’s contributions to AI research in multi-agent collaboration, human-computer decision-making and intelligent user interfaces include novel representations and algorithms for autonomous decision-making in heterogeneous groups comprising people and computational agents and the design of AI technologies for addressing real world problems in such domains as education, citizen science, participatory democracy and negotiation.

Gal is the recipient of the Wolf foundation's 2013 Krill prize for young Israeli scientists, a Marie Curie International fellowship, and a three-time recipient of Harvard University's outstanding teacher award. He was appointed a Senior Member of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence in 2020 and a Fellow of the European Association for Artificial Intelligence in 2022. He has received best paper awards at ACM Conference on User Modeling Adaptation and Personalization 2019 (UMAP-19), ACM conference on Economics and Computation 2016 (EC-16) and Educational Data Mining 2014 (EDM-14). He is an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies (TLT) and a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Artificial Intelligence (JAIR). Between 2017 and 2021 Gal served as the Chairperson of the Israeli Association for Artificial Intelligence.