Long Thanh Tran is a Professor at the Department of Computer Science, University of Warwick, UK. He is the Director of Research (Deputy-Head) of the department and the university’s Chair of Digital Research Spotlight. Long has been doing active research in a number of key areas of Artificial Intelligence, mainly focusing on reinforcement learning, game theory, and their applications to many subfields of AI. For his work he has received a number of prestigious international awards, including 2 best paper honourable mention awards at top-tier AI conferences (AAAI, ECAI), 2 Best PhD Thesis Award Honourable Mentions (UK's BCS and Europe’s ECCAI/EurAI), and the co-recipient of the 2021 AIJ Prominent Paper Award (for one of the 2 most influential papers between 2014-2021 published at the Artificial Intelligence Journal).