My focus is on intelligent agent technologies, decision support concepts, and formal methods for multiagent systems. In particular, modeling the behavior of multiagent systems and logical frameworks to represent and reason about decision processes in multiagent settings. The following points characterize my general research interests: 

• • Agent-based computing 

  • Logics for multiagent systems

  • Strategic decision making and game theoretic approaches

  • Temporal representation and reasoning 

  • Virtual organizations/institutions

  • Group responsibility and related socio-technical concepts

Centres 

• • Co-Investigator and RRI Lead at SustAI CDT (UKRI AI Centre for Doctoral Training in AI for Sustainability)

  • Member of the Research Centre for Resilient Socio-Technical Systems 

Research Projects

• • Research Collaborator at CCAIS (Citizen-Centric AI Systems)

  • Co-Investigator at  Harnessing the Power of Physics-Informed Geospatial AI

  • Co-Investigator at HANA-HAIP (Harnessing trust and acceptance in Human-AI Partnerships)

  • Co-Investigator at XHS (Explainable Human-Swarm Systems)

  • Co-Investigator at VESTAS (Verifiably Safe and Trusted Human-AI Systems)

  • Co-Investigator at ARGOS (AI-assisted Resilience Governance Systems)

  • Research Fellow at TAS Hub (UKRI Trustworthy Autonomous Systems Hub)

  • Research Fellow at AutoTrust (Human Centered Internet of Vehicles)

  • PhD Researcher at SHAREBOX (Innovative Technologies for Circular Economy)

Academic Visit

From July to October 2019, I was an academic visitor at Imperial College London, visiting Prof. Nick Jennings. 

Professional Services

Organiser:

• • Diversity and Inclusion Co-Chair: European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI-2025)

  • Guest Editor: Special Issue on Citizen-Centric AI Systems with JAAMAS

  • Demonstration-Competition Co-Chair: International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS-2024)

  • Local Organising Team :International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS-2023)

  • Organising Team: International Workshop on Citizen-centric Multiagent Systems (C-MAS 2023) (C-MAS 2024) (C-MAS 2025)

Program Comittee Member: 

• • International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2021-2025)

  • International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2021-2025)

  • AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2020-2025)

  • European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2020-2025)

  • International Conference on Principles and Practice of Multi-Agent Systems (PRIMA 2024, 2025)

  • International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence (ICAART 2025)

  • International Workshop on Engineering Multiagent Systems (EMAS 2023, 2024, 2025)

  • International Workshop on Coordination, Organizations, Institutions, Norms and Ethics for Governance of Multi-Agent Systems (COINE 2025)

  • International Workshop on Games, Agents, and Incentives (GAIW-2024, 2025)

Reviewer:

• • Artificial Intelligence Journal (AIJ)

  • Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR)

  • Communications of the ACM (CACM)

  • ACM Computing Surveys

  • ACM Journal on Responsible Computing 

  • AI & Society

  • Journal of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (JAAMAS)

  • IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems

  • Journal of Cybersecurity 

  • Annals of Operations Research

  • International Journal of Production Economics

  • EUMAS - European Conference on Multiagent Systems

  • MATES - German Conference on Multiagent Systems

  • BNAIC - Benelux Conference on Artificial Intelligence

Awards

• Best Demonstration Award of AAMAS 2025 (24th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems) for “Serious Games for Ethical Preference Elicitation” (Jayati Deshmukh, Zijie Liang, Vahid Yazdanpanah, Sebastian Stein, Sarvapali Gopal Ramchurn). 

• Special Mention at the Blue Sky Ideas track of AAMAS 2021 (20th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems) for "Responsibility Research for Trustworthy Autonomous Systems" (Vahid Yazdanpanah, Enrico Gerding, Sebastian Stein, Mehdi Dastani, Catholijn Jonker and Tim Norman).

• Best Abstract at the 2021 Rabb Symposium on Embedding AI in Society for "Responsibility Ascription in Trustworthy Autonomous Systems" (Vahid Yazdanpanah, Enrico Gerding, Sebastian Stein, Mehdi Dastani, Catholijn Jonker, Tim Norman and Gopal Ramchurn).

• Best paper award of PRIMA 2016 (19th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Multi-Agent Systems) for “Distant Group Responsibility in Multi-Agent Systems” (Vahid Yazdanpanah and Mehdi Dastani).

Teaching at the University of Southampton:

• SUST6002: AI for Sustainability Techniques and Research Methods (2024- )

• COMP2208: Intelligent Systems (2022-   )

• COMP2211: Software Engineering Group Project (2021-   )

• COMP3200: Part III Individual Project (2021-   )

• COMP3219: Engineering Management and Law (2022-   )

• COMP6200: MSc Project (2021-   )

UKRI AI Centre for Doctoral Training in AI for Sustainability (SustAI, as of 2024 for 8 years, £15M investment):

• Co-Investigator and member of the management board

• The Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) Champion

• Co-lead for the research theme on AI for Sustainable Operations and Circular Economy

Other Roles:

• Ada Lovelace Coordinator [link]

• Co-initiated and on the management board for the ENGAGE Scholarship Scheme

Teaching at the University of Twente (Netherlands):  

• Multiagent Systems (2016-   )

• Sustainable Business Development (2017-2020)

• Bioresource Supply Chain Management (2018-2020)

Email: v.yazdanpanah@soton.ac.uk