I am an Assistant Professor in Computer Science at the University of Birmingham, School of Computer Science. To know more about the Dynamics, Learning and Control (DLC) Research Group, click here.
My research interests are in the areas of game theory, systems and control, multi-agent learning, optimisation. Applications span a range of domains, including biology, cyber-physical systems, materials science, economics, opinion dynamics.
2025 Dec - Our paper "Teaching an Old Dynamics New Tricks: Regularization-free Last-iterate Convergence in Zero-sum Games via BNN Dynamics" has been accepted as full paper in the 2026 AAMAS conference. Congrats, Tuo!
2025 Dec - The DLC group has attended the CDC in Rio and presented 4 papers this year. Well done to everyone, Ziyue and Sam!
2025 Dec - Tuo has presented our work titled "Last-Iterate Guarantees in Noisy Games via BNN Dynamics", which was accepted at the NeurIPS workshop 'DynaFront'.
2025 Nov - My Team and I have given a talk at the Almirall group presenting our work on safeguarded AI for biopharmaceutical manufacturing.
2025 Nov - Mr Tuo Zhang has joined our project Safeguarded AI-enabled Biopharmaceutical Manufacturing as part-time research associate.
2025 Nov - Our Team has been invited to the Edinburgh ARIA workshop on Safeguarded AI to present our progress on biopharmaceutical degradation.
2025 Oct - The DSAA conference took place at UoB (organising committee).
2025 Sep - Miss Suzannah Gebbett has started her PhD under the supervision of Dr Jens Christian Claussen and myself. Welcome, Suzannah!
2025 Sep - I have been appointed as External Examiner for the PhD thesis of Mr Stylianos Vagenas, University of Sheffield.
2025 Sep - I am now the Director of Alumni in the School of Computer Science.
2025 Aug - I have given a talk in the Work Experience Week as part of the outreach activities organised over the summer in our school.
2025 Jul - The DLC group got 4 papers accepted at the 64th CDC conference to be held in Rio. Looking forward to seeing you there!
2025 Jul - Dr Amrita Suresh has joined our project Safeguarded AI-enabled Biopharmaceutical Manufacturing as research associate.
2025 Jun - Mr Adam Szekely has joined our project Safeguarded AI-enabled Biopharmaceutical Manufacturing as research associate.
2025 May - Dr Gokhan Tut has joined our project Safeguarded AI-enabled Biopharmaceutical Manufacturing as research associate.
2025 May - I have attended the AAMAS conference to present the work by my PhD student Mr Tuo Zhang with Dr Julian Barreiro-Gomez. Available here.
2025 May - I have given a talk at the Control Seminar Series at the University of Oxford titled "Learning Nash Equilibria via Innovative Dynamics". The slides are available here.
2025 Apr - I have attended the ARIA workshop in Nottingham with Dr Mirco Giacobbe to present the initial results of our funded project and network with the TA1 and TA3 groups.
2025 Mar - Our paper "Application of machine learning in additive manufacturing of a novel Al alloy heat exchanger" has been published in The International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology with Dr Francesco Careri, Dr Raja Khan and Prof Moataz Attallah. Available here.
2025 Feb - Mr Yunzhe Dong has started his PhD under my supervision and Dr Iran Mansouri's. Welcome, Yunzhe!
2025 Feb - I gave a talk on "Learning Nash Equilibria via Innovative Dynamics" at the ERC seminar on AI meets Control (online) within the Automatic Control Engineering (ACE) network. The video is available here.
School of Computer Science
University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15 2TT
Office: 215 (second floor)