Anthony Hunter: Academic Activities

Anthony Hunter: Academic Activities

  • Professor of Artificial Intelligence in the Department of Computer Science at University College London
  • Head of the Intelligent Systems Group in the Department of Computer Science at University College London
  • Grant holder for the EPSRC Project "Reasoning with uncertainty and inconsistency in structured scientific knowledge" (2007-10).
  • Grant holder for the EPSRC Project "Argumentation Factory: Algorithms and software for industrial strength inconsistency tolerance" (2007-10).
  • Grant holder for the Royal Society Project "Logic-based inconsistency measures for artificial intelligence" (2003-06).
  • Grant holder for the EPSRC Project "Structured text analysis: Addressing inconsistency in heterogeneous information" (2002-05).
  • Grant holder for the EPSRC Project "Logic-based technology for measuring inconsistency of news reports" (2001-04).
  • Co-author (with Philippe Besnard) of a book entitled "Elements of Argumentation" published by MIT Press in 2008.
  • Editor (with Leo Bertossi and Torsten Schaub) of a book on Inconsistency Tolerance published by Springer (LNCS 3300).
  • Editorial board member (from July 2012) for Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR) published by AI Access Foundation.
  • Editorial board member for The Knowledge Engineering Review published by Cambridge University Press.
  • Editorial board member for International Journal of Approximate Reasoning published by Elsevier.
  • Editorial board member for The International Journal Information - Interaction - Intelligence (I3) published by Cépaduès.
  • Editorial board member for Argument and Computation published by Taylor and Francis.
  • Member of the Ecsqaru Permanent Committee (ecsqaru.org).
  • Member of the Steering Committee for the International Workshops on Non-monotonic Reasoning.
  • Member of the EPSRC Peer Review College (2010).
  • Invited lecturer for the 2009 Advanced Course on Artificial Intelligence (ACAI'09).
  • Programme chair for the 4th Scalable Uncertainty Management Conference (SUM 2010).
  • Participant in the Dagstuhl Seminar on Uncertainty Management in Information Systems.
  • Participant in the Dagstuhl Seminar on Theory and Practice of Argumentation Systems.
  • Co-organizer of the Dagstuhl Seminar on Inconsistency Tolerance.
  • Participant in the Dagstuhl Seminar on Logics for Emerging Applications of Databases.
  • Programme chair for the Second International Conference on Computational Models of Argumentation (COMMA'08).
  • Programme co-chair for the Eleventh International Workshop on Non-Monotonic Reasoning (NMR'06).
  • Chair of the Fifth European Conference on Symbolic and Quantitative Approaches to Uncertainty (Ecsqaru'99)
  • Currently, SPC or PC member for KR'12, ECAI'12, ArgMAS'12, COMMA'12
  • Previously, SPC or PC member for conferences including AAAI, ArgMAS, CMNA, COMMA, ECAI, Ecsqaru, CMSRA FoIKS, Fusion, IDA, IJCAI, IPMU, KR, KSEM, NLELA, PCAR, SUM, UAI, and WI.
  • Reviewer for the American Mathematical Society (Mathematical Reviews).
  • Reviewer for journals including Artificial Intelligence, Computational Intelligence, Data and Knowledge Engineering, Knowledge Engineering Review, Knowledge and Information Systems, Journal of AI Research, IEEE Intelligent Systems, Journal of Intelligent Information Systems, International Journal of Intelligent Systems, Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Journal of Logic and Computation, Journal of Applied Logic, Argumentation, Acta Informatica, Studia Logica, Journal of Applied Non-classical Logics, International Journal of Approximate Reasoning, Fuzzy Sets and Systems, Journal of Automated Reasoning, Journal of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, Automated Software Engineering, IEEE Transaction on Software Engineering, Computer Journal, World Wide Web Journal, Information Sciences.
  • Project reviewer for EU Framework 6 Research (Information Society Technologies).
  • Panel member for NSF IIS Programmes.
  • Reviewer for research grants for UK EPSRC, UK BBSRC, British Council, CNRS, European Commission (DG Information Society and Media), US National Science Foundation (NSF), Canadian National Research Council, Swedish Research Council, Dutch NWO, Belgian FWO, Wiener Wissenschafts-, Forrschngs-, und Technologiefonds (WWTF), Chilean CONICYT, ISF, and Universite du Luxembourg.
  • PhD Examiner at Imperial College, Queen Mary College, King's College, University of Liverpool, University of Surrey, University of Manchester, Queen's University Belfast, Universite de Lille, Universite d'Artois, Universite du Sud Toulon-Var, Universidad de Murcia, Utrecht University, and Australian National University.
  • MPhil Examiner at University of Bristol.
  • Habilitation Examiner at Universite Paul Sabatier, Toulouse.
  • External examiner for undergraduate courses in Department of Computer Science, University of Liverpool.
  • External examiner for MSc/MRes courses in Department of Computer Science, Birkbeck College, University of London.
  • External examiner for MSc courses in Department of Computer Science, Queen Mary College, University of London.
  • External assessor for BSc Information Management and Information Systems at Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University.
  • Organizer of one-day technology transfer seminars for Unicom on AI topics including decision-support technologies.
  • Contributor of articles on applications of AI technology for the Knowledge Management magazine and for Information World Review.