Dr. Munindar P. Singh is an Alumni Distinguished Graduate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at North Carolina State University. Munindar's research interests include artificial intelligence and multiagent systems with applications in service-oriented computing, cybersecurity, privacy, and social computing. He is a codirector of the DoD-sponsored Science of Security Lablet at NCSU, one of six nationwide.
Munindar was the editor-in-chief of the ACM Transactions on Internet Technology from 2012 to 2018 and the editor-in-chief of IEEE Internet Computing from 1999 to 2002. His current editorial service includes IEEE Internet Computing, Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, Journal of Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, and ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology. Munindar served on the founding board of directors of IFAAMAS, the International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems. He also served on the founding steering committee for the IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing and on the editorial board of the Journal of Web Semantics. Munindar was a general cochair for the 2005 International Conference on Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems, the 2016 International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing, and the 2022 IEEE Services Computing Conference.
Munindar is a Fellow of AAAI (Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence), AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science), ACM (Association for Computing Machinery), and IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers), and was elected a foreign member of Academia Europaea (honoris causa). He has won the ACM/SIGAI Autonomous Agents Research Award, the IEEE TCSVC Research Innovation Award, and the IFAAMAS Influential Paper Award. He won NC State University's Outstanding Graduate Faculty Mentor Award as well as the Outstanding Research Achievement Award (twice). He was selected as an Alumni Distinguished Graduate Professor and elected to NCSU's Research Leadership Academy.
Munindar's research has been recognized with awards and sponsorship by (alphabetically) Army Research Lab, Army Research Office, Cisco Systems, Consortium for Ocean Leadership, DARPA, Department of Defense, Ericsson, Facebook, IBM, Intel, National Science Foundation, and Xerox.
Twenty-nine students have received PhD degrees and thirty-nine students MS degrees under Munindar's direction.