Prof. Boi B. Faltings Director of the AI-Lab at the EPFL office: INR211 phone: (+41 21) 693-2735 fax: (+41 21) 693-5225 e-mail: Boi.Faltings@epfl.ch homepage:  /People/faltings/

Current Activities and Interests

I am the founder and director of the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, and a professor in the EPFL computer science department. My research interest is in Artificial Intelligence, in particular in the following areas:

• Software Agents
• Constraint-based reasoning
• Case-based reasoning

Besides teaching and research at EPFL, I serve the AI community as member of several editorial boards (AI Journal, AI Magazine, AI Communications, Constraints, and others) as well as by regular participation on conference committees (IJCAI, AAAI, ECAI, and others).

My publications at the LIA

Short Biography

I obtained my undergraduate degree at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich (ETH) in 1983 and a Ph.D. degree from the University of Illinois, Urbana, in 1987. From 1987 to 1993, I have been professeur extraordinaire at EPFL. Since 1993, I am full professor and have served as head of the computer science department from 1996-1998.
 

Postal address:

Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
Institute of Core Computing Science
School of Computer and Communication Sciences
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
IN (Ecublens), CH-1015 Lausanne (Switzerland)