Prof dr. Frans A. Oliehoek (1981) is Full Professor Interactive Learning and Decision Making at Delft University of Technology, where he is also a leader of the sequential decision making group and director and co-founder of the ELLIS Unit Delft. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science (2010) and M.Sc. Artificial Intelligence (2005) both from the University of Amsterdam (UvA), and subsequently did postdocs at MIT (2010-2012) and Maastricht University (2012-2013), where he was appointed as a (non-permanent) Assistant Professor (2013-2014). In 2014 he moved back to UvA supported by an NWO VENI Fellowship and in parallel he took up a position as Lecturer at the University of Liverpool, where he was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2017. In 2018 he joined TU Delft as an Associate Professor and he was promoted to Full Professor in 2025.
Frans’ research interests revolve around intelligent systems that learn about their environment via interaction, building on techniques from machine learning, AI and game theory. He has served as PC/SPC/AC at top-tier venues in AI and machine learning, IFAAMAS board member, and as associate editor for JAIR and AIJ. He is a Senior Member of AAAI, Fellow of ELLIS, and was awarded a number of personal research grants, including a prestigious ERC Starting Grant.