About Me

I am Professor of Computer Science at the Department of Computer Science at University College London (UCL). I lead the Machine Intelligence Lab - we are part of the Autonomous Systems Research Group. I am also Professor of Computer Science at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Bologna. More information about my bio, current and past appointments, etc can be found here.

What’s New

• November 2024 Our paper “Reinforcement Learning Discovers Efficient Decentralized Graph Path Search Strategies” has been accepted for publication at the 3rd Learning on Graph Conference (LoG 2024). The preprint of the paper can be found here.

• November 2024 Our paper “Feature Selection for Network Intrusion Detection” has been accepted for publication in the Research Track of the 31st ACM Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (ACM SIGKDD 2025). The camera ready version will be available soon. In the meanwhile, you can find the preprint here.

• November 2024 New preprint: “Mutual Information Preserving Neural Network Pruning”. You can download the paper here.

• November 2024 Our paper “On the Creativity of Large Language Models” has been accepted for publication in AI&Society. The camera ready version of the paper will be ready soon. In the meanwhile, you can find a preprint of the article here.

• October 2024 Our paper “Tree Search in DAG Space with Model-based Reinforcement Learning for Causal Discovery” has been accepted of publication in the Proceedings of the Royal Society A. The paper will be appear soon. You can find the arXiv preprint here.

• October 2024 New preprint: “Moral Alignment for LLM Agents”. You can download the paper here.

Previous news items can be found here.

Upcoming Events

I am currently involved in the following upcoming scientific events:

• 13th International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2025)
• 24th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS 2025)
• 18th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM 2025)
• 39th Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2025)
• 31st SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD 2025)
• 38th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2024)

Please consider submitting your work to and attending these conferences.

A list of past events I have been involved in 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 (in particular, decision-making problems in both single-agent and multi-agent scenarios);
• Generative Artificial Intelligence (foundational models/large language models and their applications);
• Computational models (in particular, learning models) of human/user/machine behaviour;
• Machine Intelligence for ubiquitous, mobile, and cyber-physical systems;
• AI and society.

More information about my research activities can be found here.

Last updated: 7 December 2024.