Bio

I am Professor of Computer Science at the Department of Computer Science at University College London (UCL). I am a Turing Fellow at the Alan Turing Institute, the UK National Institute for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence. I am the Turing University Lead for UCL, i.e., I coordinate and support the research activities involving UCL and the Turing. I am also Professor of Computer Science at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Bologna. I lead the Intelligent Social Systems Lab. We are part of the Autonomous Systems Research Group at UCL.

More information about my bio, current and past appointments, etc can be found here.

What’s New

• Our paper Control-Tutored Reinforcement Learning: Towards the Integration of Data-Driven and Model-Based Control has been accepted for publication at L4DC 2022.

• Our paper Goal-directed Graph Construction using Reinforcement Learning has been accepted for publication in the Proceedings of the Royal Society A.

• I got interviewed for a Q&A article on causality in digital medicine in Nature Communications.

Past news can be found here.

Research Interests

I have broad research interests spanning several traditional and emerging areas of Computer Science and beyond. More specifically, current research areas of interest include:

• Machine Learning/Reinforcement Learning and their applications;
• Computational models (in particular, learning models) of human/user/machine behaviour;
• Machine intelligence for ubiquitous and mobile systems, cyber-physical systems and the Internet of Things.

Application areas include networked systems, autonomous systems, human-AI interaction, digital health and security&privacy.

Research Opportunities

PhD Students. I am happy to discuss potential Ph.D. opportunities in my lab. I am looking for candidates with a good degree in Computer Science, Engineering or Maths/Statistics. Please feel free to contact me by email. Please include a brief description of your research interests and your CV/transcripts in your message.

Postdoctoral Research Associates. I am also happy to discuss opportunities for joining the lab as Postdoctoral Research Associate. Please feel free to arrange a meeting to get in contact to discuss more.

Upcoming Events

I am currently involved in the following upcoming scientific events:

• 22nd International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2023) [Senior Program Committee Member]
• 11th International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2023) [Program Committee Member]
• 37th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2023) [Demo Chair]
• 36th International Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2022) [Program Committee Member]
• 3rd ACM Workshop on Distributed Machine Learning (DistributedML 2022) at ACM CoNEXT 2022 [Program Committee Member]

Please consider submitting your work to and attending these conferences.

A list of past events I have been involved in can be found here.

Publications

You can find my papers here or on my Google Scholar page.

Last updated: 13 August 2022.