Speaker Bio

Dr. Stefano V. Albrecht is Associate Professor of Artificial Intelligence in the School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, where he leads the Autonomous Agents Research Group. Dr. Albrecht is a Royal Society Industry Fellow working with Five AI/Bosch to develop AI technologies for autonomous vehicles; and he is a Royal Academy of Engineering Industrial Fellow working with KION/Dematic to develop reinforcement learning solutions for multi-robot warehouse systems. His research on reinforcement learning and multi-agent interaction has been published in leading conferences and journals for AI/ML/robotics, including NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, IJCAI, AAAI, UAI, AAMAS, AIJ, JAIR, JMLR, TMLR, ICRA, IROS, T-RO. Previously, Dr. Albrecht was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Texas at Austin. He obtained PhD and MSc degrees in Artificial Intelligence from the University of Edinburgh, and a BSc degree in Computer Science from Technical University of Darmstadt. He is co-author of the book “Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning: Foundations and Modern Approaches” (MIT Press).

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