Vahid Yazdanpanah, Ph.D.
Research Fellow, University of Southampton
Artificial Intelligence | Multiagent Systems | Intelligent Agents | Formal Methods | Game Theory
About me
I am a postdoctoral Research Fellow (and incoming Assistant Professor) in the Agents, Interaction and Complexity (AIC) research group in the Department of Electronics and Computer Science at the University of Southampton, and a Visiting Lecturer at the University of Twente.
I received my PhD from the University of Twente on the application of multiagent techniques for implementing circular economy practices (2015 - 2019) and did my Master in Artificial Intelligence at Utrecht University (2013 - 2015). I also hold a Master degree in Business Administration (MBA) from University of Greenwich in a joint program with Saxion UAS (2011 - 2012).
A list of my publications is available at ORCID, DBLP, and Google Scholar.
Research
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
Research Projects
Co-Investigator at ARGOS (AI-assisted Resilience Governance Systems)
Research Fellow at AutoTrust (Human Centered Internet of Vehicles)
Research Fellow at TAS Hub (UKRI Trustworthy Autonomous Systems Hub)
Research Collaborator at CCAIS (Citizen-Centric AI Systems)
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
Program Committee Member:
The 31th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-2022)
The 36th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-2022)
The 30th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-2021)
The 35th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-2021)
The 20th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS-2021)
The 34th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-2020)
The 24th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI-2020)
Reviewer:
Journal of Artificial Intelligence (Elsevier)
Communications of the ACM
IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems
Annals of Operations Research (Springer)
International Journal of Production Economics (Elsevier)
EUMAS - European Conference on Multiagent Systems
MATES - German Conference on Multiagent Systems
BNAIC - Benelux Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Awards
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" (joint work with 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" (joint work with 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” (joint work with Mehdi Dastani).
Teaching
At the University of Twente, I was involved in design, delivery, and evaluation of the following MSc. courses:
Multiagent Systems (2016/17, 2017/18, 2018/19, 2019/20, 2020/21, 2021/22)
Sustainable Business Development (2017/18, 2018/19, 2019/20)
Bioresource Supply Chain Management (2018/19, 2019/20)
Contact
Email: MyFirstName [at] MyLastName [dot] Net