Information

Membership Number: FCA2312

Membership Type: Fellowship

Division: Mathematics and Information Sciences

Corresponding Email: A.G.Cohn@leeds.ac.uk

Homepage(s): https://eps.leeds.ac.uk/computing/staff/76/professor-anthony-tony-g-cohn-freng-ceng-citp 

Present and Previous Positions

Professor of Automated Reasoning, School of Computer Science, University of Leeds

1979-1989: Lecturer in Computer Science, University of Warwick 

1990 - 1993: Senior Lecturer, School of Computer Studies, University of Leeds 

1993 - 1996: Reader in Automated Reasoning, School of Computer Studies, Univ. of Leeds 

1996 - present: Professor of Automated Reasoning, School of Computing, Univ. of Leeds

        1995 - 1999 Director of Research, School of Computing 

        1999 - 2004 Head of School of Computing

        2009 - 2016 Director of the Institute of Artificial Intelligence and Biological Systems 

        2016- 2022: Director of Research and Innovation, School of Computing 

2023- 2026 Foundation Models Theme Lead, Alan Turing Institute (seconded 50% from Leeds) 

2012 - 2014: Honorary Adjunct Professor, University of Technology Sydney 2018 - 2023: Fellow at the Alan Turing Institute, UK 

2017 - 2024: Distinguished Visiting Professor, Tongji University, Shanghai

2018 - 2021: High-End Foreign Expert, Tongji University, Shanghai

2020-2022: Adjunct Professor, Shandong University, Jinan 

2019-2022: Distinguished Visiting Professor, Qingdao University of Science and Technology, Shandong

Fields of Scholarship and Research Interests

AI; knowledge representation & reasoning; ontologies; foundation models; data & sensor fusion; cognitive vision; spatial representation &reasoning; geographical information science, robotics

Honors, Awards and Other Membership

EurAI Distinguished Service Award, 2023 

Elected Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales (FLSW), May 2024 

Recipient of the 2021 Herbert A. Simon Prize for Advances in Cognitive Systems“ for his research on qualitative representation and reasoning about space and time, cognitive vision and robotics, and visually-grounded language processing”.

Elected Fellow of Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (AAIA), FAAIA, 2021. 

Listed in Who’s Who, from 2017 

Elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, in 2015

Donald E Walker Distinguished Service Award, IJCAI-15 

AAAI Distinguished Service Award 2012 for extraordinary and sustained service to the artificial intelligence community

Elected Founding Fellow of the European Coordinating Committee on Artificial Intelligence (FECCAI) 1999 (Now Fellow of the European Association for Artificial Intelligence, FEurAI) 

Elected member of UKCRC (An Expert Panel of the British Computer Society, the Institution of Electrical Engineers, and the Council of Professors and Heads of Computing)

Fellow of the British Computer Society (FBCS) 

Fellow of the Institute of Electrical Engineers (IEE)/Institute of Engineering Technology (FIET) 

Fellow of the Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour (FAISB) 

Fellow of the Association for Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (FAAAI) 

The entry from the Cognitive Vision project (which I was a co-PI of) won the annual British Computer Society Machine Intelligence prize in December 2004

Faculty of Engineering, University of Leeds Research Excellence Award, 2006

Selected Publications

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=tal4mMkAAAAJ&hl=en 

Other Information

cv-September-2024.pdf (From University of Leeds: https://artificial-intelligence.leeds.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/118/2024/10/cv-September-2024.pdf)

https://www.turing.ac.uk/people/researchers/anthony-cohn 

https://eurai.org/award/tony-cohn