Nick Hawes is an Associate Professor at the Oxford Robotics Institute, part of the Department of Engineering Science at the University of Oxford, and a Fellow of Pembroke College. He leads the GOALS research group (https://ori.ox.ac.uk/labs/goals/) which performs research on problems in mission planning and decision making for autonomous systems, particularly goal-oriented, long-lived robots acting in uncertain environments. He is a Senior Member of AAAI, an Associate Editor for the Journal of AI Research, and a Group Leader for AI and Robotics at the UK's Turing Institute.