Professor Tony Cohn

School of Computing, University of Leeds
Email: agc@comp.leeds.ac.uk
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Tony Cohn is Professor of Automated Reasoning and Head of the School of Computing at the University of Leeds. He holds BSc and PhD degrees from the University of Essex where he studied under Pat Hayes. He spent 10 years at the University of Warwick before moving to Leeds in 1990. He now leads a research group working on Knowledge Representation and Reasoning with a particular focus on qualitative spatial reasoning and was co-ordinator of SPACENET, the European qualitative spatial reasoning network. He has been Chairman of the UK AI Society SSAISB and also of the European Coordinating Committee on AI; he has been elected a founding Fellow of ECCAI. He was Programme Chair of the European AI Conference ECAI94, Workshop Chair of IJCAI95, Programme Co-chair of KR98 and Conference Chair of KR2000, and was on the judging panel for the British Computer Society Distinguished Dissertation award. Recent invited talks include a tutorial on spatial reasoning at FAPR96, a lecture series at the 1995 Spring School on spatial reasoning at Bolzano, and invited talks at TSM95 (Toulouse), AISMC96 (Steyr) and KI 97 (Freiburg). He is an IJCAII trustee, Conference Chair of IJCAI 2003 in Acupulco, Mexico and is currently President of KR inc. He has been on many programme committees for workshops and conferences, regularly referees for various AI journals, has been on the editorial board of DAKE and is on the editorial boards of AI Communications (AICOM) and Spatial Cognition and Computation; he also is on the Policy Committee of Electronic Transactions on AI (ETAI) and is Review Co-editor of the journal Artificial Intelligence. He is also on the executive boards of the European Networks of Excellence MONET (Model based and qualitative reasoning) and COMPULOG (Computational Logic). He is a member of the UK EPSRC College of IT and Computing.