Michael Luck is a professor of

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based at the Department of Informatics,

King's College London King's College London (informally King's or KCL) is a public university, public research university in London, England. King's was established by royal charter in 1829 under the patronage of George IV of the United Kingdom, King George IV ...

, in central London, England. His main research area is in

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s and

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Education

Luck was educated at University College London where he was awarded a PhD in 1993.

Career and research

From 1993 to 2000, Michael Luck was a lecturer based in the Department of Computer Science at the

University of Warwick The University of Warwick ( ; abbreviated as ''Warw.'' in post-nominal letters) is a public research university on the outskirts of Coventry between the West Midlands and Warwickshire, England. The university was founded in 1965 as part of ...

. From 2000 to 2006, Luck was a professor in the School of Electronics and Computer Science at the

University of Southampton The University of Southampton (abbreviated as ''Soton'' in post-nominal letters) is a public university, public research university in Southampton, England. Southampton is a founding member of the Russell Group of research-intensive universit ...

. While there, he led th
''AgentLink'' European Co-ordination Action for Agent-Based Computing
Luck moved to King's College London in 2007 and served as head of the Department of Informatics from 2011 to 2013. In 2013 he was appointed as Executive Dean of the Faculty of Natural and Mathematical Sciences, staying in that role until 2020. In that time he also led th
UKRI Centre for Doctoral Training in Safe and Trusted Artificial Intelligence
serving as founding Director from 2019 until 2023. From 2021, Luck served as founding Director of th
King's Institute for Artificial Intelligence
Luck has undertaken research in the area of

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. He is the co-author of the books ''Understanding Agent Systems'' and ''Agent-Based Software Development''.

Editorial service

* 2016–2022 co-editor-in-chief of the ''

Journal of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems A journal, from the Old French ''journal'' (meaning "daily"), may refer to: *Bullet journal, a method of personal organization *Diary, a record of personal secretive thoughts and as open book to personal therapy or used to feel connected to onesel ...

Awards and honors

Luck is a Fellow of the European Association for Artificial Intelligence (EurAI), and a British Computer Society (BCS) fellow. In 2021, he was awarded fellow of King's College London.

References

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