Artificial Intelligence research in the Department of Computing at Imperial College London is centered around the study and development of intelligent, autonomous systems. Our research focuses on theoretical foundations as well as applications of AI.

Our expertise ranges from machine learning to knowledge representation and reasoning, autonomous agents and multi-agent systems, human-machine interactions and collectives, cognition and human modeling, data science, robotics, augmented reality, graphics, computer vision and imaging, audio-visual signal processing, natural language processing and affective computing.

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Academics

Academics

  • Dr Dalal Alrajeh

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    Dr Dalal Alrajeh Senior Lecturer

    +44 (0)20 7594 2421

    Location

    557, Huxley Building

    Research interests

    Formal methods, software engineering, artificial intelligence for correct software, and software for digital forensics.

  • Dr Tolga Birdal

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    Dr Tolga Birdal Lecturer

    Location

    Huxley Building

    Research interests

    3D computer vision, geometric machine learning, non-euclidean geometry, topological deep learning .

  • Dr Francesco Belardinelli

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    Dr Francesco Belardinelli Senior Lecturer

    Location

    Roon 572b, Huxley building

    Research Interest

    Logic and AI

  • Dr Krysia Broda

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    Dr Krysia Broda Emeritus Professor

    +44 (0)20 7594 8426

    Location

    378, Huxley Building

    Research interests

    Logic Programming, Theorem Proving, Labelled Deductive Systems, (Teleo) Reactive Agents, Neural-Symbolic Integration.

  • Prof. Michael Bronstein

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    Prof. Michael Bronstein Chair in Machine Learning and Pattern Recognition

    Location

    Huxley Building

    Research interests

    Geometry, Machine Learning, Computer Graphics and Shape Analysis, Computer Vision, Biometrics.

  • Prof. Keith Clark

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    Prof. Keith Clark Emeritus Professor

    +44 (0)20 7594 8284

    Location

    450, Huxley Building

    Research interests

    Multi-agent systems and multi-threaded agent architectures, cognitive robotic, multi-threaded symbolic programming languages, teleo-reactive procedures and plans, ambient intelligence.

  • Dr Antoine Cully

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    Dr Antoine Cully Senior Lecturer

    +44 (0)20 7594 8204

    Location

    Room 354, ACEX building

    Research Interest

    Robotics and Artificial Intelligence: How to use learning algorithms to make robots more versatile, robust, and adaptive

  • Mr Jim Cunningham

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    Mr Jim Cunningham Emeritus Reader

    +44 (0)20 7594 8284

    Location

    450, Huxley Building

    Research interests

    Practical applications of symbolic reasoning processes.

  • Dr Marc Deisenroth

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    Dr Marc Deisenroth Visiting Professor

    +44 (0)20 7594 8234

    Research interests

    Statistical Machine Learning, Robotics, Control, Time-Series Analysis, Signal Processing.

  • Prof. Andrew Davison

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    Prof. Andrew Davison Professor of Robot Vision

    +44 (0)20 7594 8316

    Location

    303, William Penney Laboratory

    Research interests

    Computer vision, robotics, Simultaneous Localisation and Mapping (SLAM), augmented reality.

  • Dr Yves-Alexandre de Montjoye

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    Dr Yves-Alexandre de Montjoye Reader

    +44 (0)20 7594 0991

    Location

    Data Science Institute, William Penney Laboratory

    Research interests

    Privacy, Machine learning, AI Safety, Memorization, Automated attacks.

  • Prof. Abbas Edalat

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    Prof. Abbas Edalat Professor of Computer Science and Mathematics

    +44 (0)20 7594 8245

    Location

    420, Huxley Building

    Research interests

    Differential and integral calculus, computational geometry, computation in logical form, optimisation theory, game theory, computational psychiatry, attachment based psychotherapy.

  • Prof Aldo Faisal

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    Prof Aldo Faisal Professor of AI & Neuroscience

    +44 (0)20 7594 6373

    Location

    407A, Huxley Building
    4.08, Royal School of Mines

    Research interests

    Neurotechnology, biomedical engineering, machine learning, algorithmic prediction of human behaviour.

  • Dr Abhijeet Ghosh

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    Dr Abhijeet Ghosh Professor of Graphics and Imaging

    +44 (0)20 7594 8351

    Location

    376, Huxley Building

    Research interests

    Appearance modeling, computational illumination, photography for graphics and vision.

  • Prof. Duncan F Gillies

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    Prof. Duncan F Gillies Professor of Biomedical Data Analysis

    +44 (0)20 7594 8317

    Location

    373, Huxley Building

    Research interests

    Probabilistic inference, Biomedical Data Analysis.

  • Prof Ben Glocker

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    Prof Ben Glocker Professor in Medical Image Computing

    +44 (0)20 7594 8334

    Location

    377, Huxley Building

    Research interests

    Biomedical image analysis, computer vision, semantic image understanding, machine learning.

  • Dr Edward Johns

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    Dr Edward Johns Senior Lecturer

    Location

    Room 365, ACEX Building

    Research Interest

    Robot Learning , Robot Manipulation, Deep Learning, Reinforcement Learning, Computer Vision

  • Dr Bernhard Kainz

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    Dr Bernhard Kainz Reader

    +44 (0)20 7594 8349

    Location

    372, Huxley Building

    Research interests

    Machine learning, visualisation, interactive real-time image processing, high-performance medical data analysis.

  • Prof. Robert Kowalski

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    Prof. Robert Kowalski Emeritus Professor

    +44 (0)20 7594 8284

    Location

    450, Huxley Building

    Research interests

    Logic Programming, Abductive Logic Programming, Event Calculus and Deductive Databases, Multi-Agent Systems, Reactive Systems, Normative Reasoning.

  • Dr Yingzhen Li

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    Dr Yingzhen Li Senior Lecturer

    Location

    Huxley Building

    Research interests

    Machine learning, Bayesian statistics, representation learning, generative models, robustness in learning, AI-assisted decision making.

  • Prof. Alessio Lomuscio

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    Prof. Alessio Lomuscio Professor of Safe Artificial Intelligence

    + 44 (0)20 7594 8414

    Location

    I-X, Translation and Innovation Hub (I-HUB), White City Campus

    Research interests

    Logic-based specification, verification of autonomous systems.

  • Prof. Wayne Luk

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    Prof. Wayne Luk Professor of Computer Engineering

    +44 (0)20 7594 8313

    Location

    434, Huxley Building

    Research interests

    Hardware and architecture, reconfigurable computing, design automation.

  • Dr Pedro Mediano

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    Dr Pedro Mediano Lecturer

    Location

    572, Huxley building

     

    Research interests

    Computation in neural systems, computational cognitive neuroscience, information theory, machine learning, neurodynamics, mental health, and consciousness.

  • Prof Ruth Misener

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    Prof Ruth Misener Professor in Computational Optimisation

    +44 (0)20 7594 8315

    Location

    379, Huxley Building

    Research interests

    Global optimisation, mixed-integer nonlinear optimisation, optimisation software, bioprocess optimisation.

  • Prof Stephen Muggleton

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    Prof Stephen Muggleton Professor of Machine Learning

    +44 (0)20 7594 8307

    Location

    407B, Huxley Building

    Research interests

    Inductive logic programming, machine learning applications in molecular biology, intelligent adaptive agents, natural language learning.

  • Prof. Maja Pantic

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    Prof. Maja Pantic Professor of Affective & Behavioural Computing

    +44 (0)20 7594 8195

    Location

    380, Huxley Building

    Research interests

    Computer vision, machine learning, and affective computing.

  • Dr. Marek Rei

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    Dr. Marek Rei Senior Lecturer in Machine Learning and NLP

    Location

    555, Huxley Building

    Research interests

    Machine learning, natural language understanding, neural architectures, representation learning, compositional semantics, educational and healthcare application.

  • Islem Rekik

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    Islem Rekik Senior Lecturer at I-X

    Location

    5th floor, Imperial-X (I-HUB) White City Campus

    Research interests

    Machine learning, deep learning, predictive intelligence in medicine, network neuroscience, holistic artificial intelligence.

  • Prof. Daniel Rueckert

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    Prof. Daniel Rueckert Professor of Visual Information Processing

    +44 (0)20 7594 8333

    Location

    568, Huxley Building

    Research interests

    Image acquisition and analysis using machine learning, medical applications.

  • Prof. Alessandra Russo

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    Prof. Alessandra Russo Professor in Applied Computational Logic

    +44 (0)20 7594 8312

    Location

    I-X, Translation and Innovation Hub (I-HUB), White City Campus

    Research interests

    Computational logic, logic-based machine learning, probabilistic and distributed Inference, cognitive systems, autonomous systems.

  • Dr Viktoriia Sharmanska

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    Dr Viktoriia Sharmanska Honorary Research Fellow

    +44 (0)20 7594 8241

    Location

    452, Huxley Building

    Research interests

    Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Deep Learning methods, Crowdsourcing.  

  • Dr Nicole Salomons

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    Dr Nicole Salomons Lecturer at I-X

    Location

    I-X, Translation and Innovation Hub (I-HUB), White City Campus

    Research interests

    Human-robot interaction, intelligent tutoring systems, artificial intelligence, user modelling, and robotics.

  • Prof Bjoern Schuller

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    Prof Bjoern Schuller Professor in Machine Learning

    +44 (0)20 7594 8357

    Location

    574, Huxley Building

    Research interests

    Machine Learning, Audio-visual signal processing, human-computer/robot-interaction, and affective computing.

  • Prof. Marek Sergot

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    Prof. Marek Sergot Emeritus Professor

    +44 (0)20 7594 8218

    Location

    446, Huxley Building

    Research interests

    Logics for Knowledge Representation and Reasoning: Logics of Action and Agency, Temporal/Normative/Legal Reasoning, Formal Theories of Organisations.

  • Prof. Murray Shanahan

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    Prof. Murray Shanahan Professor in Cognitive Robotics

    +44 (0)20 7594 8262

    Location

    378, Huxley Building

    Research interests

    Neurodynamics, consciousness, cognitive robotics, reinforcement learning, general artificial intelligence, technological singularity.

  • Prof. Lucia Specia

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    Prof. Lucia Specia Professor

    Location

    572a, Huxley Building

    Research Interest

    Natural Language Processing,  Multimodal language processing,  Machine translation,  Quality evaluation and estimation of machine translation and other NLP applications,  Text adaptation 

  • Prof. Francesca Toni

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    Prof. Francesca Toni Professor in Computational Logic

    +44 (0)20 7594 8228

    Location

    430, Huxley Building

    Research interests

    Knowledge representation and reasoning, argumentation, abduction, non-monotonic and default reasoning, multi-agent systems, argument mining.

  • Dr Calvin Tsay

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    Dr Calvin Tsay Lecturer

    Location

    Huxley Building

    Research interests

    Optimisation, control, computational methods, machine learning, and engineering processes.

  • Dr Mark van der Wilk

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    Dr Mark van der Wilk Lecturer

    Location

    Huxley Building

    Research interests

    Uncertainty in Machine Learning, Automatic Model Selection, Bayesian Inference, Reinforcement Learning, Bayesian Deep Learning, Generalisation

  • Dr Wolfram Wiesemann

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    Dr Wolfram Wiesemann Associate Professor of Management

    +44 (0)20 7594 9150

    Location

    Imperial College Business School

  • Dr Stefanos Zafeiriou

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    Dr Stefanos Zafeiriou Professor

    +44 (0)20 7594 8461

    Location

    375, Huxley Building

    Research interests

    Machine learning, computer vision, and image/signal analysis.

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