Other academic activities

Professional bodies

  • Member of the steering committee of COMMA international conference series on Computational Models of Argument.


  • Emeritus member of the Board of Directors of the European Association for Multi-Agent Systems.


  • Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

Advisory roles

  • Member of the Advisory Board for the UKRI AI Centre for Doctoral Training in Sustainable Understandable agri-food Systems Transformed by Artificial INtelligence (SUSTAIN) (2024 - present).

  • Member of the Advisory Board for the UKRI Centre for Doctoral Training in Machine Intelligence for Nano-Electronic Devices and Systems (MINDS) (2023 - present).

  • Member of the Advisory Group to the UK Government's Energy Digitalisation Taskforce (2021).

  • External Subject Advisory Group member, advising Pearson on their approach to the government's redevelopment of GCSE Computer Science (2014 - 2015).


  • IT/Computer Science Strategic Advisory Group member, advising Pearson on the development of new A Level qualifications (2012 - 2013).

Media and public engagement

  • Provided expert advice and a reflective commentary for the learning and education section of the speculative fiction anthology All Tomorrow’s Futures: Fictions That Disrupt, published by Cybersalon Press. I also featured in a panel discussion on the methodology and ideas behind this "thrilling ride through diverse speculative landscapes, mixing the best elements of fun and imaginative story telling with real-life insights from top practitioners".

  • Video and blog post on a trustworthy future of AI, part of the King's College London Reimagining AI Futures series, October 2023.




  • BBC Radio 4, 10 November 2013. Interviewed for Artificial Soul, part of the Something Understood series: John McCarthy asks whether there is any aspect of humanity that could never be programmed into a machine.

PhD examinations

  • University College London.


  • University of Liverpool.

Event organisation


  • Co-Chair of the Workshop on Safe and Trusted Artificial Intelligence (STAI 2023), held at the 39th International Conference on Logic Programming (ICLP 2023) in London, UK, 2023.


  • Co-Chair of the IEEE Special Track on Artificial Intelligence for Healthcare: From Black Box to Explainable Models (AI4H:B2E 2019), held at the 32nd IEEE CBMS International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems in Cordoba, Spain, 2019.


  • Co-Chair of the Fourth International Workshop on Theory and Applications of Formal Argument (TAFA 2017), held as an IJCAI workshop in Melbourne, Australia, 2017.


  • Co-Chair of the Third International Workshop on Theory and Applications of Formal Argument (TAFA 2015), held as an IJCAI workshop in Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2015.



  • Local Chair of Norms, Actions, Games workshop (NAG 2014), held at King’s College London, 2014.


  • Co-Chair of the Second International Workshop on Theory and Applications of Formal Argument (TAFA 2013), held as an IJCAI workshop in Beijing, China, 2013.


  • Programme Co-Chair and Local Co-Chair of the 15th European Agent Systems Summer School (EASSS 2013), held at King’s College London, 2013.


  • Programme Co-Chair and Local Co-Chair of the 15th Advanced Course on Artificial Intelligence (ACAI 2013), held at King’s College London, 2013.

Editorial work

  • Editorial board member for Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems.


  • Previous editorial board member for Artificial Intelligence.

Journal reviewing

  • AI Communications.


  • Artificial Intelligence.


  • Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems.


  • Journal of Logic and Computation.


  • Knowledge Engineering Review.


  • Knowledge and Information Systems.


  • International Journal of Approximate Reasoning.



  • International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools.

Research grant reviewing

  • Brain Tumour Research.


  • EPSRC, UK.


  • Leverhulme, UK.


  • Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research.

Senior programme committee membership

  • European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2024).

  • International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-PRICAI 2020).

  • International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2017, IJCAI 2019).


  • International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS 2017, AAMAS 2018).

Programme committee membership

  • AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2016, AAAI 2017).


  • European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2014, ECAI 2016).


  • International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2011, IJCAI 2013, IJCAI 2015, IJCAI 2018).


  • International Conference on Computational Models of Argument (COMMA 2012, COMMA 2016, COMMA 2018, COMMA 2020, COMMA 2022, COMMA 2024).


  • International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS 2012, AAMAS 2015).


  • International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR 2012, KR 2016).


  • European Conference on Multi-Agent Systems (EUMAS 2010, EUMAS 2011, EUMAS 2014, EUMAS 2015).


  • International Workshop on Value Engineering in AI (VALE 2023).



  • International Workshop on Argumentation for Explainable AI (ArgXAI 2022).



  • International Workshop on Responsible Artificial Intelligence Agents (RAIA 2019).



  • International Workshop on Computational Argument and Cognition (COGNITAR 2020).


  • International Workshop on Argumentation and Multi-Agent Systems (ArgMAS 2009, ArgMAS 2010, ArgMAS 2011, ArgMAS 2012, ArgMas 2013, ArgMAS 2014).


  • International Workshop on Systems and Algorithms for Formal Argumentation (SAFA 2016).


  • International Workshop on Computational Logic in Multi-Agent Systems (CLIMA 2013).


  • International Workshop on Conflict Resolution in Decision Making (CORDEMA 2013).



  • International Workshop on the Theory and Applications of Formal Argumentation (TAFA 2011).


  • Starting AI Researchers Symposium (STAIRS 2012).