Craig Boutilier is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Toronto and co-founder of Granata Decision Systems. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Toronto in 1992, and worked as an Assistant and Associate Professor at the University of British Columbia from 1991 until his return to Toronto in 1999. He served as Chair of the Department of Computer Science at Toronto from 2004-2010.

Boutilier was a consulting professor at Stanford University from 1998-2000, an adjunct professor at the University of British Columbia from 1999-2010, and a visiting professor at Brown University in 1998, at the University of Toronto in 1997-98, at Carnegie Mellon University in 2008-09, and at Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) in the spring of 2011. He served on the Technical Advisory Board of CombineNet, Inc. from 2001 to 2010.

Boutilier's research interests have spanned a wide range of topics, from knowledge representation, belief revision, default reasoning, and philosophical logic, to probabilistic reasoning, decision making under uncertainty, multiagent systems, and machine learning. His current research efforts focus on various aspects of decision making under uncertainty: preference elicitation, mechanism design, game theory and multiagent decision processes, economic models, social choice, computational advertising, Markov decision processes, reinforcement learning and probabilistic inference. He has published over 200 articles in refereed journals, conference proceedings, and other edited collections. He holds four patents (with six more pending).

Boutilier is currently Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR). He also serves as an Associate Editor with the ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation (TEAC); is a past Associate Editor with the Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR), the Journal of Machine Learning Research (JMLR), and Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS); and he has sat on the editorial/advisory boards of several other journals. Boutilier has organized several international conferences and workshops, including his work as Program Chair of the Sixteenth Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI-2000) and Program Chair of the Twenty-first International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-09). He has also served on the conference program committees of over 40 leading international conferences.

Boutilier is a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI). He has been awarded the Isaac Walton Killam Research Fellowship and an IBM Faculty Award. He also received the Killam Teaching Award from the University of British Columbia in 1997.