Toby Walsh

Toby Walsh
Born	1964 UK
Residence	Sydney, Australia
Nationality	British
Fields	Artificial Intelligence, Automated reasoning
Institutions	University of New South Wales and Data61, (formerly NICTA)
Alma mater	University of Edinburgh, University of Cambridge
Doctoral advisor	Alan Bundy

Toby Walsh FAA is a professor of artificial intelligence at the University of New South Wales and Data61 (formerly NICTA). He has served as Scientific Director of NICTA, Australia's centre of excellence for ICT research. He is noted for his work in constraint programming and propositional satisfiability. He currently serves on the Executive Council on the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence.

He received an M.A. degree in theoretical physics and mathematics from the University of Cambridge and a M.Sc. and Ph.D. degree in artificial intelligence from the University of Edinburgh. He has held research positions in Australia, England, Ireland, Italy France, Germany, Scotland, and Sweden. He has been Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, and of AI Communications. He was chaired several conferences in the area of artificial intelligence including the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. He is Editor of the Handbook of Constraint Programming, and of the Handbook of Satisfiability.

In 2015, he helped release an open letter calling for a ban on offensive autonomous weapons that attracted over 20,000 signatures. He later gave a talk at TEDxBerlin on this topic.

In 2016, he was elected to the Australian Academy of Science.

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