Research interests


My main research interests lie within the broad area of artificial intelligence. In particular:

  • Intelligent agents and multi-agent systems.

  • Argumentation theoretic models of agent reasoning, communication and dialogue.

  • Strategic considerations for argumentation-based dialogues.

  • Relevance and persuasiveness of arguments.

  • How an agent can develop a model of another agent's mental state.

  • Responsible development of artificial intelligence technologies.

  • Applications of artificial intelligence in healthcare.

Funded projects


  • UKRI Centre for Doctoral Training in Safe and Trusted Artificial Intelligence, EPSRC, 2019 - 2027. Amount awarded 6,865,984 GBP. I am Director of the Centre, which was established to train a new generation of scientists and engineers who are experts in model-based AI approaches and their use in developing AI systems that are safe (meaning we can provide guarantees about their behaviour) and trusted (meaning a general user can have well-placed confidence in the decisions they make and their reasons for making them). I am responsible for the Centre's training programme and its equality, diversity and inclusion strategy.


  • Data-driven Persuasion Technologies for Improving Patient Concordance with Treatment Plans, internal King's Together Fund, 2017 - 2019. Amount awarded 20,827 GBP. I was co-principal investigator on this multi-disciplinary project. I led the technology focussed work, looking at how argument dialogues can be used to persuade patients with diabetic foot ulcers to wear their prescribed off-loading boots, and developing a prototype chat bot to investigate both patients' and healthcare professionals' responses to this.


  • Planning an Argument, EPSRC, 2015 - 2016. Amount awarded 98,726 GBP. I was principal investigator on this project, which was awarded through the EPSRC First Grant Scheme, and the research assistant was Christopher Hampson. We investigated the application of automated planning techniques to generate argument dialogue strategies.


  • Commodity Market Transparency Through Data Exploration, Innovate UK, 2014 - 2015. Amount awarded to King's 49,821 GBP (total grant was 484,987 GBP). This project, on which I was co-investigator, applied artificial intelligence techniques to identify events that cause price movements in the wheat market from news and industry reports.


  • Argumentation Strategies, Marie-Curie Intra-European Fellowship, 2010 - 2011. Amount awarded 153,548 EUROS. I held this fellowship at the University of Utrecht, and it was focussed on strategies for argument dialogues about action.