Toby Walsh is Laureate Fellow and Scientia Professor of Artificial Intelligence at the
Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of New South Wales, research
group leader at Data61, adjunct professor at QUT, external Professor of the Department of
Information Science at Uppsala University, an honorary fellow of the School of Informatics at
Edinburgh University and an Associate Member of the Australian Human Rights Institute at UNSW.
He was Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, and of AI Communications. He is on the editorial board of the Journal of the ACM, Journal of Automated Reasoning and the Constraints journal. He has been elected a fellow of the Australian Academy of Science, the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM), the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, and the European Coordinating Committee for AI in recognition of his research in artificial intelligence and service to the community.
He has won the NSW Premier’s Prize for Excellence in Engineering and ICT, the Humbolt Award, the Research Excellence Award of the Association for Constraint Programming and the IJCAI Donald E. Walker Distinguished Service Award. He has been Secretary of the Association for Constraint Programming (ACP) and is Editor of CP News, the newsletter of the ACP. He is one of the Editors of the Handbook for Constraint Programming, and the Handbook for Satisfiability.
He has been Program and Conference Chair of the main conferences in Constraint Programming,
Automated Reasoning and Artificial Intelligence.