Agents, Interaction and Complexity

Our people

We're a vibrant group with academics, researchers, and students from over 10 countries, across Computer Science, Physics, Mathematics, and Economics.

Professor Sebastian Stein

Professor

Research interests

  • Citizen-Centric Artificial Intelligence Systems
  • Mechanism Design and Incentive Engineering in Multi-Agent Systems
  • Applications of AI in smart energy, transportation, electric vehicle charging and disaster response

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Dr Shoaib Ehsan

Associate Professor

Research interests

  • Robotics (Localisation and Mapping)
  • Embedded Systems
  • Computer Vision

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Dr Stuart Middleton

Associate Professor

Research interests

  • Natural Language Processing
  • Human-in-the-loop NLP: Active Learning, Adversarial Training, Rationale-based Learning, Interactive Sense Making
  • Information Extraction: Few/Zero Shot Learning, Graph-based Models, Behaviour Classification, Geoparsing/Location Extraction, Event Extraction, Argument Mining

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Dr Tan Viet Tuyen Nguyen

New Frontiers Fellow

Research interests

  • Human-centered Artificial Intelligence
  • Social Human-Robot Interaction
  • Multimodal Perception and Interaction

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Professor Tim Norman

Head of School

Research interests

  • Learning and reasoning under uncertainty
  • AI safety
  • Human-AI collaboration

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Dr Vahid Yazdanpanah

Lecturer

Research interests

  • Multiagent (AI) Systems
  • Agent-Based Computing 
  • Responsibility of AI Systems

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