Ana Bazzan’s Academic Homepage

Short Vitae

I received my PhD in Computer Science in 1997 from the Informatik Fakultät at the Univ. of Karlsruhe (IPR institute) in Karlsruhe, Germany, funded by the Brazilian government (CNPq).

My previous degrees are in Engineering from the Politechnic School (POLI) of the Univ. of São Paulo in São Paulo, Brazil, and MSc. in Computer Science from the Institute of Informatics at the Univ. of Rio Grande do Sul in Porto Alegre.

From 1997 to 1998, I had a postdoc research associate position in the Multi-Agent Systems Laboratory at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, under supervision of Prof. Victor Lesser. There, I was involved in the research project “Enhancing Survivability with Distributed Coordination” (part of DARPA/ITO’s Information Survivability program) on Survavibility, Intrusion Detection, and Diagnosis.

From 1999 on I held various positions at the Institute of Informatics at UFRGS (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, which has been consistently ranked among the top 5 universities in Brazil): assistant professor (until 2006), associate professor (until 2016) and full professor (until 2024, when I retired). At UFRGS I also led the research group on Artificial Intelligence.

Currently, I am a visiting professor at the graduate program in computer science (PPGC) at UFRGS.

My research interests include: multiagent systems (MAS) and reinforcement learning (RL); applications of AI and RL in urban mobility, traffic, transportation; game-theoretic paradigms for coordination of agents (Minority Game, Iterated Prisoner’s Dilemma, Public Goods Game, Congestion Games, etc.); agent-based modeling and simulation; complex systems; network science; applications of network science and AI in humanities (in particular, History).

In 2025 I finished a second graduation: a bachelor in History, from UFRGS.

Publications

Here is my CV Lattes You can also find my publications at Google Scholar or see them here

Awards and Facts

From April 2006 to March 2007 I had an appointment at the University of Würzburg (Germany) as a fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung. I was again a fellow from this foundation in 2014 and 2018 (Humboldt University, Berlin and Technical University Berlin).
In 2021-22 I spent one year as fellow of the Käte Hamburguer Kolleg at the RWTH (Technical University Aachen).
In 2024-25 I spent 6 months as fellow of the CAIS Kolleg (Bochum).
I served as general co-chair of AAMAS 2014, the premier conference on autonomous agents and multiagent systems, held in Paris.
I was a keynote speaker at AAMAS 2017
I served as area chair, senior program chair or in the program committee of top-tier AI conferences (IJCAI, ECAI, AAMAS), among many others
Listed among the top 30 Brazilian researchers in computer science
Listed among the top 2% scientists with the most impact in the world