June 6, 2001

Wurman Receives NSF Career Award

Dr. Peter R. Wurman, assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science at North Carolina State University, is the recipient of a Faculty Early Career Development (Career) Program Award from the National Science Foundation (NSF).  The award is the highest honor given by NSF to young university faculty in science and engineering.

As part of the award, NSF will provide $300,000 from August 2001 through July 2006.  Wurman received the award for his proposal entitled “Automated Synthesis of Bidding Strategies for Trading Agents.”  Wurman's project will investigate approaches to building a strategy generation engine for software agents that participate in Internet auctions.  One educational component of his proposal involves building Web-based learning materials for E-commerce courses.

Wurman is co-director of E-commerce@NCState, an initiative by the colleges of Engineering and Management that focuses on an interdisciplinary approach to research, teaching and outreach.  His research interests involve the design and evaluation of automated negotiation for electronic commerce, including online auction systems, combinatorial auctions, trading agents and market-based protocols.

Wurman received his S.B. in mechanical engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1987; M.S. degrees in mechanical engineering and computer science from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in 1988 and 1996, respectively; and his Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in 1999.

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