Programme Chair of the 25th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2026).
Tutorial Chair of AAMAS 2025.
Board Member of the International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (IFAAMAS).
Vice Chair of ACM SIGAI.
Supervising multiple PhD students on topics including ROS node verification, reliable software for autonomous robots, security-minded verification, rule-based reasoning in nuclear environments, ethical natural language inference, and uncertainty in machine ethics.
Research Experience
Developed several automated reasoning and theorem proving tools, including:
— Agent JPF model checker for BDI agent languages;
— lambda-clam proof planning system;
— PROSPER Toolkit integrating interactive theorem prover (HOL) with automated reasoning tools (e.g., SAT solvers) and Case/CAD tools.
Contributed to the Engineering Autonomous Space Software project, developing verifiable agent architectures for asteroid field exploration.
Involved in the Centre for Robotic Autonomy in Demanding and Long Lasting Environments (CRADLE, 2023–2028).
Member of the Autonomy and Verification Group (Manchester) and the Autonomous and Verification Network.