About Me

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 am also Professor of Computer Science at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Bologna.

I am a Visiting Researcher at Google.

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What’s New

• I am looking for Ph.D. students interested in working in the areas of human-centered machine learning/AI, reinforcement learning, multi-agent systems and computational models of social systems.

• I also have funding for a Postdoctoral Research Fellow position. Please contact me if you are interested.

• New preprint: Improving the Robustness of Graphs through Reinforcement Learning and Graph Neural Networks.

• Two new papers accepted in ACM IMWUT and to be presented at ACM UbiComp 2020: Quantifying the Relationships between Everyday Objects and Emotional States through Deep Learning Based Image Analysis Using Smartphones and A Multi-perspective Analysis of Social Context and Personal Factors in Office Settings for the Design of an Effective Mobile Notification System.

• Our book Intelligent Notification Systems published by Morgan&Claypool is out!

• Our paper Partner Selection for the Emergence of Cooperation in Multi-Agent Systems using Reinforcement Learning has been accepted for presentation in the Technical Program of AAAI 2020.

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Upcoming Events

I am currently involved in the following upcoming scientific events:

• 9th International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2021) [Program Committee Member]
• 14th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (ACM WSDM 2021) [Program Committee Member]
• 27th International ACM Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications (ACM HotMobile 2021) [General Chair]
• 35th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence [Program Committee Member]
• 34th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2020) [Program Committee Member]
• 1st ACM Workshop on Distributed Machine Learning at ACM CoNEXT 2020 [Program Committee Member]

Please consider submitting your work to and attending these conferences and workshops!

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Research Interests

Current areas of interest include:

• Human-centred Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning;
• Reinforcement Learning and its applications;
• Modelling of social systems (human, artificial, hybrid);
• Computational models of human/user behaviour (and their applications to the design of algorithms and systems).

Publications

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[Google Scholar page]

Last updated: 22 October 2020.