Scholar
Yali Du
Google Scholar ID: WMlPkOoAAAAJ
Turing Fellow, Associate professor, King's College London
Citations & Impact
Citations
3,044
H-index
25
i10-index
51
Publications
20
Co-authors
18
list available
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- She was chosen for the AAAI New Faculty Highlights award (2023) and Rising Star in AI 2023. She has given tutorials on cooperative multi-agent learning at ACML 2022 and AAAI 2023. She serves as an editor for the Journal of AAMAS and IEEE Transactions on AI, and is an Area Chair for NeurIPS 2024. She also serves on the organizing committee for AAMAS 2023 and NeurIPS 2024. She released SocialJax, a suite of sequential social dilemma environments for multi-agent RL in JAX, developed together with DeepMind researcher Joel Leibo.
Research Experience
- She is the head of the Distributed AI Group and director of the Cooperative AI Lab at King's College London. Her research is supported by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) and the AI Safety Institute (AISI).
Education
- Information not provided
Background
- Her research interests include reinforcement learning, multi-agent cooperation, generalization, zero-shot coordination, evaluation of human and AI players, and social agency (e.g., human-involved learning, safety, and ethics). She is a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in AI at King's College London and a Turing Fellow at The Alan Turing Institute. At King's, she heads the Distributed AI Group and directs the Cooperative AI Lab.
Miscellany
- She normally recruits 2-3 PhD students each year. She organizes the Agentic AI Frontier Online Seminar every Friday at 9 AM PT.
