UKRI Centre of Doctoral Training in Safe and Trusted AI PhD student (the STAI CDT), Matt MacDermott, won the Best Paper Award at TARK 2023 for the paper, ‘On Imperfect Recall in Multi-Agent Influence Diagrams’, with co-authors James Fox, Lewis Hammond, Paul...
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Wenxi Wu has paper ‘S*: On Safe and Time Efficient Robot Motion Planning’ accepted to ICRA 2023
Wenxi Wu, a student (2022 cohort) in the UKRI Centre for Doctoral Training in Safe and Trusted AI (the STAI CDT) has published the paper ‘S*: On Safe and Time Efficient Robot Motion Planning’ at the 2023 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA...
Alexander Goodall, Fabrizio Russo, Madeleine Waller and Munkhtulga Battogtokh have papers accepted to ECAI 2023
We are thrilled to announce that PhD students from the Centre for Doctoral Training in Safe and Trusted AI – the STAI CDT – Alexander Goodall (2022 cohort), Fabrizio Russo (2020 cohort), Madeleine Waller (2021 cohort) and Munkhtulga Battogtokh have had papers accepted...
2023 Workshop on Safe and Trustworthy AI (STAI 23)
PhD students from the Centre for Doctoral Training in Safe and Trusted AI – the STAI CDT – C Henrik R Åslund (2019 cohort) and Francis Rhys Ward (2020 cohort) were co-organisers of the 2023 Workshop on Safe and Trustworthy AI (STAI 23), along with Dr Elizabeth Black...
Anna Gausen and Madeleine Waller accepted on to Turing Enrichment Scheme 2023
PhD students from the UKRI Centre for Doctoral Training in Safe and Trusted AI (the STAI CDT) Anna Gausen (2020 cohort) and Madeleine Waller (2021 cohort) have been accepted on to the Turing Enrichment Scheme for 2023/24. This competitive scheme gives UK university...
Chiara Di Bonaventura on her experience at the International Semantic Web Research Summer School
Chiara Di Bonaventura, PhD student (2022 cohort) from the UKRI Centre for Doctoral Training in Safe and Trusted AI (the STAI CDT), recently attended the International Semantic Web Research Summer School (ISWS) which was held in Bertinoro, Italy in July 2023. The ISWS...
AI ethics – Q & A with Jazon Szabo and Mackenzie Jorgensen
Jazon Szabo and Mackenzie Jorgensen, both PhD students in the UKRI Centre for Doctoral Training in Safe and Trusted AI (the STAI CDT), talk to us about the AI Ethics reading group that they run. Tell us a bit about the AI Ethics reading group – how long has it been...
STAI CDT Summer School 2023
The STAI CDT Summer School was held in-person at Imperial College London across 17-19 July 2023. The summer school featured six invited talks by world-class researchers on cutting-edge topics on AI and its applications, including cooperative multi-agent systems,...
Patrick Henriksen presents paper, ‘Verification-friendly Networks: the Case for Parametric ReLUs’, at IJCNN 2023
Patrick Henriksen (2019 cohort) presented a paper, ‘Verification-friendly Networks: the Case for Parametric ReLUs’, at the 36th International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN23) at the Gold Coast, Australia. IJCNN is the premier international conference in...
STAI CDT at King’s Festival of AI: ‘The Genius and Stupidity of AI’
STAI CDT PhD students Matt MacDermott, Avinash Kori, Benedikt Brückner and Shahin Honarvar took part in the King’s Festival of Artificial Intelligence with their demonstration, ‘The Genius and Stupidity of AI’. Their demonstration encouraged visitors...
STAI CDT at King’s Festival of AI: ‘Fantastic (Artificial) Beasts and Where to Find Them’
STAI CDT PhD students Chiara Di Bonaventura (2022 cohort) and Michelle Nwachukwu (2022 cohort) took part in the recent King’s Festival of Artificial Intelligence with their family-friendly workshop, ‘Fantastic (Artificial) Beasts and Where to Find Them’. ...
Lennart Wachowiak presents paper and poster at the Explainable Robotics Workshop at ICRA 2023
STAI CDT PhD student, Lennart Wachowiak (2021 cohort), presented a paper and poster on “A Survey of Evaluation Methods and Metrics for Explanations in Human-Robot Interaction (HRI)” at the Explainable Robotics Workshop at IEEE International Conference on Robotics...
STAI CDT at King’s Festival of AI: ‘Brewing the Future’
STAI CDT PhD students Lennart Wachowiak (2021 cohort) and Peter Tisnikar (2021 cohort) took part in the recent King’s Festival of Artificial Intelligence with a demonstration, ‘Brewing the Future’. Lennart, Peter and Dr Gerard Canal’s demo explored collaboration...
Q & A with STAI CDT student Zoe Evans for the Festival of Robotics 2023
This week is the Festival of Robotics 2023 (formerly known as National Robotics Week). To mark this we spoke to STAI CDT student Zoe Evans (2022 cohort) about her research and interest in robotics. What are you working on at the moment? For my PhD, I'm working on...
STAI CDT at King’s Festival of AI: ‘AI learns to play a video game’
STAI CDT PhD students Philipp Alex Rader, Alex Goodall and Tibi Georgescu (2022 cohort) took part in the recent King’s Festival of Artificial Intelligence with their demonstration, ‘AI learns to play a video game’. Their demo challenged visitors to beat an AI that was...
STAI CDT at King’s Festival of AI: ‘Can you help me?’
STAI CDT PhD student Nathan Gavenski (2022 cohort) took part in the recent King’s Festival of Artificial Intelligence with his demonstration, ‘Can you help me?’. Nathan’s demo invited visitors to interact with Jade, an artificial intelligence, to help it to...
STAI CDT at King’s Festival of AI: ‘Synthetica – The Future of Music’
STAI CDT PhD students Madeleine Waller (2021 cohort), Michelle Nwachukwu (2022 cohort), Usman Islam (2022 cohort) and Stefan Roesch (2022 cohort) took part in the recent King’s Festival of Artificial Intelligence with their demonstration, ‘Synthetica: the...
Safe and Trusted AI Summer School 2023 – Registrations now open
The UKRI Centre for Doctoral Training in Safe and Trusted AI (STAI CDT) is excited to announce registrations are open for the upcoming Safe and Trusted AI Summer School. The Safe and Trusted AI Summer School will be held at Imperial College London from 17 – 19 July...
Munkhtulga Battogtokh’s project AHA! features in two upcoming exhibitions on AI
STAI CDT PhD student, Munkhtulga Battogtokh (2020 cohort) has collaborated with visual artist Alice White on his project AHA! (Art Human & AI). In AHA! Munkhtulga explores how art can contribute to AI development and to our understanding of how the human mind...
Aamal Hussain, Luke Thorburn, Patrick Henriksen and Nathan Gavenski have papers accepted to AI conferences: IJCAI 2023, ICML 2023 and IJCNN 2023
We are excited to announce that Aamal Hussain, Luke Thorburn, Patrick Henriksen and Nathan Gavenski have had papers accepted to three of the leading conferences on research in AI: IJCAI 2023, ICML 2023 and IJCNN 2023. The 32nd International Joint Conference on...
Mackenzie Jorgensen on her internship at the Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation (CDEI)
UKRI Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in Safe and Trusted AI (STAI) PhD student, Mackenzie Jorgensen (2020 cohort) undertook a six-month internship with the Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation (CDEI). We spoke to Mackenzie about her internship experience and how...
Changes to the STAI CDT leadership team
Michael Luck, Professor of Computer Science at King’s College London, is stepping down as Director of the UKRI Centre for Doctoral Training in Safe and Trusted AI (the STAI CDT), as he will be leaving King’s later this year to join the University of Sussex, where he...
Matthew MacDermott, Alexander Goodall and Richard Willis have papers accepted to AAMAS 2023 workshops
We are thrilled to announce that Matthew MacDermott (2021 cohort), Alexander Goodall (2022 cohort) and Richard Willis (2020 cohort) have had papers accepted to workshops at this year's 22 nd International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS...
STAI CDT PhD students involved in new exhibition exploring artificial intelligence and automated decision-making
STAI CDT PhD students' work to feature in a new exhibition, Bringing the Human to the Artificial. The exhibition is presented by the King’s Institute for Artificial Intelligence in collaboration with King's Culture, and will showcase cutting-edge research from across...
Utopia Now! STAI CDT students and young writers explore the role of AI in our near future
STAI CDT PhD students Mackenzie Jorgensen (2020 cohort) and Munkhtulga Battogtokh (2020 cohort) recently took part in a KCL Utopia Now! Project with Lambeth Carers Hub. Utopia Now! is a research project based at King’s College London that aims to find out more...
Benedikt Brückner presents paper focused on tight neural network verification at AAAI 2023
Benedikt Brückner (2021 cohort) presented his paper, ‘A Semidefinite Relaxation based Branch-and-Bound Method for Tight Neural Network Verification’ at the 37 th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence 2023 (AAAI 2023) in Washington DC. Benedikt’s work focuses...
Patrick Henriksen presents his paper, ‘Robust Training of Neural Networks against Bias Field Pertubations’ at AAAI 2023
UKRI Safe and Trusted AI PhD student, Patrick Henriksen (2019 cohort) presented his paper, 'Robust Training of Neural Networks against Bias Field Pertubations' at the 37 th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence 2023 (AAAI 2023). The performance of neural networks...
Luke Thorburn presents working paper on ‘bridging systems’ at the Plurality Research Network Conference 2023
STAI CDT PhD student, Luke Thorburn (2021 cohort) presented a working paper at the inaugural Plurality Research Network Conference, held at UC Berkeley from 13-15 January 2023. Luke, alongside his Harvard collaborator, Aviv Ovadya, have been working on what they call...
Patrick Henriksen and Benedikt Brueckner have papers accepted to AAAI 2023
We are delighted to announce that Patrick Henriksen (2019 cohort) and Benedikt Brueckner (2021 cohort) have had papers accepted to the 37th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence 2023. The conference takes place in Washington, USA, is one of the top AI...
Mackenzie Jorgensen hosts podcast episode exploring careers in AI research in academia and industry
UKRI Centre for Doctoral Training in Safe and Trusted AI PhD student, Mackenzie Jorgensen (2020 cohort), was the takeover host on the most recent episode of Kings' College London's Careers in Your Ears podcast, ‘Season 8 Episode 2: A career in AI research in academia...
Paper by Anna Gausen on ‘Using Agent-Based Modelling to Evaluate the Impact of Algorithmic Curation on Social Media’ published in the ACM Journal of Data and Information Quality
UKRI Safe and Trusted AI PhD student, Anna Gausen (2020 cohort), has had her paper, ‘Using Agent-Based Modelling to Evaluate the Impact of Algorithmic Curation on Social Media’, published in the Association for Computing Machinery’s (ACM) Journal of Data and...
Q & A with STAI CDT PhD student Luke Thorburn about his blog, ‘Understanding Recommenders’
STAI CDT PhD student, Luke Thorburn (2021 cohort), has collaborated with Jonathan Stray (Center for Human-Compatible AI at UC Berkeley) and Pri Bengani (Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Colmbia University) to create the blog, Understanding Recommenders. We spoke...
Aamal Hussain, Francis Rhys Ward and Luke Thorburn have papers accepted for upcoming AAMAS 2023
The UKRI Centre for Doctoral Training in Safe and Trusted Artificial Intelligence is excited to announce that Aamal Hussain (2019 cohort), Francis Rhys Ward (2020 cohort) and Luke Thorburn (2021 cohort) have had papers accepted for this year’s upcoming 22nd...
Mackenzie Jorgensen presents her paper, ‘Supposedly Fair Classification Systems and Their Impacts’ at IJCAI 2022
Mackenzie Jorgensen of the 2020 cohort of the UKRI Centre for Doctoral Training in Safe and Trusted Artificial Intelligence presented her paper, ‘Supposedly Fair Classification Systems and Their Impacts’ at the 2nd Workshop on Adverse Impacts and Collateral Effects of...
Elfia Bezou-Vrakatseli presents her paper ‘Towards an Argument Scheme Classification for Ethical Reasoning’ at COMMA 2022
Elfia Bezou-Vrakatseli of the 2021 cohort of the UKRI Centre for Doctoral Training in Safe and Trusted Artificial Intelligence presented her paper, ‘Towards an Argument Scheme Classification for Ethical Reasoning’ at the Workshop on Computational Models of Natural...
Paper by Jazon Szabo on ‘Integrating Quantitative and Qualitative Reasoning for Value Alignment’ contributed to EUMAS 2022
Jazon Szabo of the 2019 cohort of the UKRI Centre for Doctoral Training in Safe and Trusted Artificial Intelligence contributed his paper, ‘Integrating Quantitative and Qualitative Reasoning for Value Alignment’ to the 19th European Conference on Multi-Agent Systems...
Lennart Wachowiak and Peter Tisnikar present their work investigating people’s gaze patterns during human-agent collaborations at RO-MAN 2022 and ICRA 2022
Lennart Wachowiak and Peter Tisnikar of the 2021 cohort of the UKRI Centre for Doctoral Training in Safe and Trusted Artificial Intelligence presented their work on the paper ‘Analysing Eye Gaze Patterns during Confusion and Errors in Human–Agent Collaborations’ at...
Safe and Trustworthy AI Workshop 2022
Nandi Schoots (2019 cohort), C Henrik R Åslund (2019 cohort), Dylan Cope (2019 cohort), Matt MacDermott (2021 cohort) and Francis Rhys Ward (2020 cohort) of the UKRI Centre for Doctoral Training in Safe and Trusted AI, were the organisers of the Safe and Trustworthy...
UKRI CDT in Safe and Trusted AI Welcomes its fourth cohort
The UKRI Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in Safe and Trusted AI welcomes its fourth cohort. This week, the CDT welcomed a new cohort of 14 students from across King’s and Imperial, all who share a passion for ensuring the safety and trustworthiness of AI....
A Strange and Brilliant Light: Mackenzie Jorgensen interviews AI novelist
Mackenzie Jorgensen, from the 2020 cohort of the UKRI Centre for Doctoral Training in Safe and Trusted Artificial Intelligence, researches the social and ethical implications of AI. In Summer 2021, Vector, the critical journal of the British Science Fiction...
Safe and Trusted AI Summer School 2021
The Safe and Trusted AI Summer School 2021 took place online between 12 and 14 July. Guest speakers included world-leading academics and industry professionals. Summer Schools are core for STAI CDT PhD students and in 2021 we also welcomed the participation of some...
Dr Elizabeth Black advising new government taskforce on how AI can help UK reach climate change targets
Dr Elizabeth Black, Co-Director of the UKRI Centre for Doctoral Training in Safe and Trusted Artificial Intelligence, has been appointed to the Advisory Group of the new Energy Digitalisation Taskforce (EDiT). The taskforce will continue...
Anna Gausen presents research on fake news and agent-based modelling at the ICWSM-2021 Workshop
Anna Gausen, of the 2020 cohort of the UKRI Centre for Doctoral Training in Safe and Trusted Artificial Intelligence, presented her research on agent-based modelling and fake news at the Mediate workshop in...
STAI Director judges AI innovation
Professor Michael Luck, Director of the UKRI Centre for Doctoral Training in Safe and Trusted AI, is one of the expert judges at CogX 2021, a Festival of AI and Transformation Technology, taking place between 14 and 16 June 2021 in London. The judges, described by...
Summer School 2021 – draft programme released
Plans are underway for the Safe and Trusted AI Summer School 2021, to be held online over three days, 12 to 14 July inclusive. Find out more on our Summer School webpage.
King’s working with artists and startups to tackle online misinformation
King's MediaFutures project is working to find new ways to deal with data misinformation. Find out more at Spotlight on Research.
AI researcher and young writers imagine the future together
What do young people want from the world of the future? How do their hopes and fears intersect with safe and trusted artificial intelligence? To find out, Mackenzie Jorgensen, from the 2020 cohort of the UKRI Centre for Doctoral Training in Safe and Trusted Artificial...
Nandi Schoots’ paper on the safety properties of inductive logic programming presented at AAAI workshop on AI Safety
Nandi Schoots, of the 2019 cohort of the UKRI Centre for Doctoral Training in Safe and Trusted Artificial Intelligence, presented a paper on the safety properties of inductive logic programming in February 2021. Symbolic approaches to AI are often considered safer...
King’s expertise in causal reasoning furthering research in Trusted Autonomous Systems
Researchers in King’s Software Systems Group and Trusted Autonomous Systems hub are furthering contribution towards the UKRI Trustworthy Autonomous Systems hub by honing a focus on causal reasoning. Read more at Spotlight on Research.
Paper by Jason Szabo on importance of values and norms in safe AI presented at EUMAS 2020
Jazon Szabo, of the 2019 cohort of the UKRI Centre for Doctoral Training in Safe and Trusted AI, presented his paper on value alignment and norms at the 17th European Conference on Multi-Agent Systems (EUMAS 2020) in September 2020. An increasingly important...
UKRI CDT in Safe and Trusted AI Welcomes its Second Cohort
The UKRI Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in Safe and Trusted Artificial Intelligence has welcomed its second cohort to King’s and Imperial. The students have an exciting year of training and events coming up. In October 2020 at its induction event, the CDT welcomed...
Keeping people safe online
Cybersecurity experts from King’s College London are leading work for a new national centre to keep people safe online through research and technology. Read more at Spotlight on Research.
Professor Francesca Toni appointed to collaborate with industry on world-leading AI research
Professor Francesca Toni, Co-Director of the Centre for Doctoral Training in Safe and Trusted AI, has been appointed by the Royal Academy of Engineering to one of four new Research Chairs, who will spend the next five years working closely with industry on a broad...
King’s Lead Research on Secure AI Assistants
Led by King’s, a collaboration between King’s Cybersecurity Centre, Imperial College London and non-academic partners has received £1.5 million from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) to carry out pioneering research to further...
STAI CDT Virtual Retreat
The UKRI Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in Safe and Trusted AI (STAI) hosted its first annual retreat in July 2020. The retreat featured student presentations, an online social activity, and a consultation for staff and students to discuss how the first year of...
Paper by Hana Kopecka socio-cultural elements of explainability accepted for publication and presentation
Hana Kopecka, of the 2019 cohort of the UKRI Centre for Doctoral Training in Safe and Trusted AI, has had her paper accepted for publication and presentation at the Workshop on Dialogue, Explanation and Argumentation for Human-Agent Interaction (DEXA...
Professor Michael Luck elected fellow of the European Association for Artificial Intelligence
Professor Michael Luck, Director of the Centre for Doctoral Training in Safe and Trusted AI, is elected as a 2020 EurAI Fellow by the European Association for Artificial Intelligence (EurAI). Read more at King's Spotlight on Research.
STAI CDT Students Complete Group Project with Royal Mail
Students in the first cohort of the UKRI Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in Safe and Trusted AI (STAI) have been working with our partner, Royal Mail, to investigate how AI techniques and telemetry data could be used to improve the trustworthiness of automatic...
Congratulations to Patrick Henriksen on his upcoming paper with Professor Alessio Lomuscio
Congratulations to Patrick Henriksen of the 2019 cohort of the UKRI Centre for Doctoral Training in Safe and Trusted AI, whose paper has been accepted for publication and presentation at the 24th European Conference on Artificial...
UKRI CDT in Safe and Trusted AI moves online!
With the move to working from home resulting from COVID-19, and much uncertainty in the higher education sector, the UKRI Centre for Doctoral Training in Safe and Trusted Artificial Intelligence has moved online. The Centre continues to offer student training...