Other academic activities
Professional bodies
Member of the steering committee of COMMA international conference series on Computational Models of Argument.
Elected member of the Board of Directors, and former Secretary, of the European Association for Multi-Agent Systems.
Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
Advisory roles
- 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 appearances
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 IEEE Special Track on Artificial Intelligence for Healthcare: From Black Box to Explainable Models (AI4H:B2E 2019), to be 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.
Past ediitorial 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
EPSRC, UK.
Leverhulme, UK.
Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research.
Senior programme committee membership
- 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).
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 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).