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Projects

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Harms arising from targeted online 'nudging'

Exploring what can be done to ensure that the influences of online ‘nudges’ do not become manipulative or harmful to vulnerable groups

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Citizen participation and machine learning for a better democracy

Using machine learning and natural language processing to overcome information overload in citizen participation platforms

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Simulating cities with AI agents

Developing new approaches for modelling human behaviour in cities, for simulating urban dynamics

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The data science of music

Applying data science and AI to music analysis and the lifecycle of musical works

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Vote trading networks

Building network science and data science methods to uncover hidden cooperation in democratic institutions

People

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Professor Nick Hawes

AI (Robotics) Group Leader

Sami Alabed

Sami Alabed

Doctoral Student

Hywel Williams

Dr Hywel Williams

Turing Fellow

Dr Markus Brede

Turing Fellow

Dr David Plans

Turing Fellow

Professor David De Roure

Turing Fellow

Simon Lucas

Professor Simon Lucas

Turing Fellow

Sean Fox

Dr Sean Fox

Turing Fellow

Filippo Simini

Dr Filippo Simini

Turing Fellow

Events

UK multi-agent systems symposium

Monday 24 Feb 2020

Time: 10:00 - 17:00

Edward Hughes Yoram Bachrach Sam Devlin Subramanian Ramamoorthy Victoria Mico Egea

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Vocal interactivity in-and-between humans, animals and robots

Thursday 29 Aug 2019 - Friday 30 Aug 2019

Time: 09:00 - 17:00

Sonja Vernes Mohamed Chetouani Tecumseh Fitch Verena Rieser

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Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems Conference (TAROS)

Wednesday 03 Jul 2019 - Friday 05 Jul 2019

Time: 09:00 - 18:00

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Real people behind artificial intelligence

Tuesday 22 Jan 2019

Time: 17:30 - 19:30

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Automating the crowd

Tuesday 22 Jan 2019

Time: 10:00 - 17:00

Anna Noel-Storr Paola Tubaro Ernst Hafen Tania Allard Melanie Smallman David Leslie

Publications and software

Predicting Infectiousness for Proactive Contact Tracing

The COVID-19 pandemic has spread rapidly worldwide, overwhelming manual contact tracing in many countries...

Bengio, Yoshua, Prateek Gupta, Tegan Maharaj, Nasim Rahaman, Martin Weiss, Tristan Deleu, Eilif Muller et al. "Predicting Infectiousness for Proactive Contact Tracing." ICLR 2020.

Interest groups

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Machine learning for radio frequency applications

How do we generate robust, real-time machine learning algorithms with integrated hardware and software for radio frequency applications?

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Game AI

How can we advance the state of the art in game AI and apply it to ever more interesting and important problems, in games and beyond?

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Multi-agent systems

How can research in multi-agent systems help us to address challenging real-world problems?

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Economic data science

How can we use modern computational and statistical methods to analyse economic data?

Programmes

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Artificial intelligence (Multi-agent systems)

Developing the techniques to enable AI systems to effectively interact with each other: autonomously and safely cooperating, coordinating, and negotiating in the furtherance of our delegated goals.