{"id":175043,"date":"2026-01-06T13:07:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T18:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/06\/sanmay-das-elected-aaai-fellow-for-contributions-to-multi-agent-systems-virginia-tech-news\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T15:15:23","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T20:15:23","slug":"sanmay-das-elected-aaai-fellow-for-contributions-to-multi-agent-systems-virginia-tech-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/06\/sanmay-das-elected-aaai-fellow-for-contributions-to-multi-agent-systems-virginia-tech-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Sanmay Das elected AAAI fellow for contributions to multi-agent systems | Virginia Tech News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.vt.edu\/articles\/2026\/01\/sanmay-das-elected-aaai-fellow-for-contributions-to-multi-agent-.html\">Sanmay Das elected AAAI fellow for contributions to multi-agent systems | Virginia Tech News<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.vt.edu\/articles\/2026\/01\/sanmay-das-elected-aaai-fellow-for-contributions-to-multi-agent-.html\">https:\/\/news.vt.edu\/articles\/2026\/01\/sanmay-das-elected-aaai-fellow-for-contributions-to-multi-agent-.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-01-06 13:07:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"news.vt.edu\">news.vt.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sanmay Das, a professor at Virginia Tech, has been elected as a 2026 AAAI fellow, making him the first faculty member at Virginia Tech to receive this honor.<\/li>\n<li>Das made significant contributions to AI, particularly in multi-agent interaction mechanisms and public interest applications.<\/li>\n<li>His research focuses on using AI to optimize resource distribution in social services and to aid in decision-making processes for case workers.<\/li>\n<li>Das has held numerous leadership roles in AI organizations, including past chair of the ACM Special Interest Group on Artificial Intelligence and various conference chair roles.<\/li>\n<li>He has received multiple awards for his research, teaching, and service including the National Science Foundation CAREER Program award and ACM distinguished member recognition.<\/li>\n<li>Das holds a Ph.D. from MIT and a bachelor\u2019s degree from Harvard University, both in computer science.<\/li>\n<li>The AAAI fellow selection process includes nomination, committee evaluation, and recognition at the annual conference where he will be honored alongside other inductees.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sanmay Das elected AAAI fellow for contributions to multi-agent systems | Virginia Tech News https:\/\/news.vt.edu\/articles\/2026\/01\/sanmay-das-elected-aaai-fellow-for-contributions-to-multi-agent-.html&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":175044,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/news.vt.edu\/content\/news_vt_edu\/en\/articles\/2026\/01\/sanmay-das-elected-aaai-fellow-for-contributions-to-multi-agent-\/_jcr_content\/image.transform\/l-medium\/image.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-175043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175043"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175043"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":175045,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175043\/revisions\/175045"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}