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Agents, Interaction and Complexity

Our people

We're a vibrant group with academics, researchers, and students from over 10 countries, across Computer Science, Physics, Mathematics, and Economics.

Dr Rafael Mestre PhD, MSc, BSc

New Frontiers Fellow

Research interests

  • Responsible Research and Innovation of emergent technologies
  • Multimodal machine learning and Natural Language Processing
  • Computational social science

Accepting applications from PhD students

Email: r.mestre@soton.ac.uk

Address: B60, West Highfield Campus, 104-118 Burgess Road, SO17 1TW

Dr Richard Gomer BSc(Hons) MSc PhD (he/him)

Lecturer in Computer Science

Research interests

  • Human-Computer Interaction
  • Agency-oriented Design
  • Data Institutions

Accepting applications from PhD students

Email: r.c.gomer@soton.ac.uk

Address: B32, East Highfield Campus, University Road, SO17 1BJ

Professor Richard Watson

Professor

Email: r.a.watson@soton.ac.uk

Address: B32, East Highfield Campus, University Road, SO17 1BJ

Ms Sarah Kiden

Senior Research Assistant

Email: sk3r24@soton.ac.uk

Address: B32, East Highfield Campus, University Road, SO17 1BJ

Professor Sebastian Stein

Professor

Research interests

  • Citizen-Centric Artificial Intelligence Systems
  • Mechanism Design and Incentive Engineering in Multi-Agent Systems
  • Applications of AI in smart energy, transportation, electric vehicle charging and disaster response

Accepting applications from PhD students

Email: ss2@ecs.soton.ac.uk

Address: B32, East Highfield Campus, University Road, SO17 1BJ

Dr Shoaib Ehsan

Associate Professor

Research interests

  • Robotics (Localisation and Mapping)
  • Embedded Systems
  • Computer Vision

Accepting applications from PhD students

Email: s.ehsan@soton.ac.uk

Address: B32, East Highfield Campus, University Road, SO17 1BJ

Dr Stuart Middleton

Associate Professor

Research interests

  • Natural Language Processing
  • Human-in-the-loop NLP: Active Learning, Adversarial Training, Rationale-based Learning, Interactive Sense Making
  • Information Extraction: Few/Zero Shot Learning, Graph-based Models, Behaviour Classification, Geoparsing/Location Extraction, Event Extraction, Argument Mining

Accepting applications from PhD students

Email: sem03@soton.ac.uk

Address: B32, East Highfield Campus, University Road, SO17 1BJ

Dr Tan Viet Tuyen Nguyen

New Frontiers Fellow

Research interests

  • Human-centered Artificial Intelligence
  • Human-Robot Interaction
  • Multimodal Perception and Interaction

Accepting applications from PhD students

Dr Tayyaba Azim

Research Fellow

Accepting applications from PhD students

Dr Tazzio Tissot PhD

Senior Research Fellow