I am an Assistant Professor in Computer Science at the University of Birmingham, School of Computer Science. To know more about the Dynamics, Learning and Control (DLC) Research Group, click here.
My research interests are in the areas of game theory, multi-agent systems, reinforcement learning, control theory. Specifically, in my research I focus on the coordination and consensus of agents in game frameworks where cooperative/competitive interactions occur. Multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) with applications to collective decision-making and materials is my main research focus.
2026 Jul - Miss Amrita Suresh has joined our project Safeguarded AI-enabled Biopharmaceutical Manufacturing.
2025 Jun - Mr Adam Szekely has joined our project Safeguarded AI-enabled Biopharmaceutical Manufacturing.
2025 May - Dr Gokhan Tut has joined our project Safeguarded AI-enabled Biopharmaceutical Manufacturing.
2025 May - I attended the AAMAS conference to present the work by my PhD student Mr Tuo Zhang with the collaboration of Dr Julian Barreiro-Gomez. Available here.
2025 May - I gave a talk at the Control Seminar Series at the University of Oxford titled "Learning Nash Equilibria via Innovative Dynamics". The slides are available here.
2025 Apr - I attended the ARIA workshop in Nottingham with Dr Mirco Giacobbe to present the initial results of our funded project and network with the TA1 and TA3 groups.
2025 Mar - Our paper "Application of machine learning in additive manufacturing of a novel Al alloy heat exchanger" has been published in The International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology with Dr Francesco Careri, Dr Raja Khan and Prof Moataz Attallah. Available here.
2025 Feb - Mr Yunzhe Dong has started his PhD under my supervision and Dr Iran Mansouri's. Welcome, Yunzhe!
2025 Feb - I gave a talk on "Learning Nash Equilibria via Innovative Dynamics" at the ERC seminar on AI meets Control (online) within the Automatic Control Engineering (ACE) network. The video is available here.
2025 Feb - I was invited at the Manufacturing Technology Centre (MTC), Coventry, to present our reinforcement learning framework for process parameter optimisation in AM.
2025 Feb - Our project Safeguarded AI-Enabled Biopharmaceutical Manufacturing has officially started! We are recruiting for research fellow positions with expertise in control, biophysics and formal methods.
2025 Jan - First year running the module Game Theory with Dr Jens Christian Claussen in our School.
2025 Jan - I gave a talk at the AICoM Raising Awareness at the University of Sarajevo (online) on our reinforcement learning approach for minimising porosity in additive manufacturing. The slides are available here.
Happy 2025!
2024 Dec - Our paper "Experience-replay Innovative Dynamics" has been accepted for publication at AAMAS. Great work from Mr Tuo Zhang and fantastic collaboration with Dr Julian Barreiro-Gomez. Arxiv.
2024 Nov - Happy to share that our proposal on Safeguarded AI-Enabled Biopharmaceutical Manufacturing has been accepted for funding from ARIA (£640k). Together with Dr Mirco Giacobbe (co-PI) and Dr Jared Delmar and Dr Paul Devine (Co-Is) from AstraZeneca.
2024 Jul - I have been selected to work as Research Proposal External Evaluator by the University of Malta.
2024 Jul - Our paper "Human-machine cooperation through human-like visual search model" has been accepted for publication in the Reinforcement Learning Conference, CoCoMARL workshop.
2024 Jul - William Bailkoski and Chit Lee have started a summer internship as research assistants with me and with Mirco Giacobbe and Chris Baber, respectively.
2024 Jun - Ziyue and Chrystian have presented the initial collaborative work on coverage control in robotic swarms using multi-agent reinforcement learning at the AI Symposium hosted at the Dyson campus.
2024 Jun - Our paper "Cascading failures in the global financial system: A dynamical model" has been accepted for publication in ORL and is now available here.
2024 May - I participated in Pint of Science, Birmingham, with the talk titled "Know your Team: the Evolution of Cooperation from Nature to Machines". The slides are available here.
School of Computer Science
University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15 2TT
Office: 215