Sanmay Das
Sanmay Das is a professor of computer science in the College of Engineering and associate director of artificial intelligence (AI) for social impact at the Sanghani Center.
Das joined Virginia Tech in 2024 from his position as professor of computer science and faculty co-director of the Center for Advancing Human-Machine Partnership at George Mason University. From 2013-2020, he was on the faculty of the Deptartment of Computer Science and Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis, where he also founded and served as the first chair of the steering committee of the interdisciplinary Division of Computational and Data Sciences.
He received his Ph.D. from MIT and a bachelor's degree from Harvard, both in computer science.
He is chair of the ACM Special Interest Group on Artificial Intelligence, a member of DARPA's ISAT Study Group, and an emeritus member of the board of directors of the International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems.
His editorial roles include serving as an associate editor for the ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation, the Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, and Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems. He is serving as General Co-Chair of the International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS) 2025, having previously served as program co-chair of the conference in 2017. He has also recently served as program co-chair and general-co-chair of the AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society, as Associate Program Chair for the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI).
Das has been recognized with awards for research, teaching, and service, including an NSF CAREER Award, several best paper awards, the Department Chair Award for Outstanding Teaching at Washington University, and the Outstanding Service Award from Computer Science at Mason.
He was named an ACM Distinguished Member in 2023 for contributions to AI and economics, AI for social good, and service to the profession.