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Contact information:

Email: Han.La.Poutre@cwi.nl
Tel.: 020 - 592 4082 (CWI)

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General information:

Research:

Han La Poutré works in the area of multi-agent systems, smart energy systems, agent-based energy markets, and computational intelligence. His research is multi-disciplinary, involving computer science in cooperation with electrical engineering and economics.

Affiliations:

• CWI (the national research center for mathematics and computer science in the Netherlands).
  • Senior researcher in the research group Intelligent and Autonomous Systems .
  • Manager Research and Strategy at CWI
• Delft University of Technology (TU Delft)
  • Full professor of Intelligent Energy Systems at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, and Computer Science, Department of Electrical Sustainable Energy (ESE), (employed for one day a week).

Editorial Boards / Steering Committees / Programme Committees / Advisory Committees / Directorates / Management:

(some current and former memberships and activities)

• Scientific Director of the International Strategic Cooperation Inria - CWI
• Vice president of ERCIM (the European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics).
• Leader of the Strategy Task Group of ERCIM (the European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics).
• Member of the Board of IPN (ICT Research Platform Nederland).
• Member of the Board of the AI, Media and Democracy Lab (AIMD).
• Co-chair of the Energy Division of the research and innovation program on data: Commit2Data.
• Chair of the program supervisory committee Uncertainty Reduction in Smart Energy Systems (URSES) of NWO.
• Chair of the program supervisory committee Energy System Integration (ESI) of NWO.
• Member of the EASAC working group on Decarbonisation of Transport (EASAC: European Academies - Science Advisory Council)
• Member of the program supervisory committee Smart Energy Systems (SES) of NWO.
• Member of the editorial board of Netnomics (internet technology and economics) (Kluwer);
  
• Member of the Program Advisory Committee (PMJ) of the Scientific Research and Documentation Centre (WODC) of the Dutch Ministry of Security and Justice.
• Member of the Senior Programme Committee of AAMAS 2015, 2016, 2018, and 2019 (AAMAS: Int. Conf. on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems)
  
• Former Chair of the IEEE Computational Finance and Economics Technical Committee (IEEE CFE TC) (IEEE's Computational Intelligence Society (CIS));
• Former Chair of the BNVKI (Belgium-Netherlands Association for Artificial Intelligence).
• Former member of the Scientific Directorate of Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany;
• Former member of core team Smart Energy Systems of EIT Digital
• Former member of the Management Team of CWI (during 10+ years).
• Founder and former group leader of the Intelligent and Autonomous Systems research group of CWI (during 18+ years).

Degrees:

Master's degree in Mathematics from Eindhoven University of Technology, and
Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from Utrecht University.

Former affiliations and awards

Princeton University; Utrecht University; Leiden University, and Eindhoven University of Technology.
STOC Award for Best PhD-Paper (ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing);
NATO Science Fellowship;
KNAW Fellowship (Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences).

Publications:

See the list of publications.