| May 24, 2026 | Looking very much forward to be at Cyprus for AAMAS 2026. If you are around make sure to pass by the talks from our lab! In the workshops: - Adaptive Learning Agents Workshop (Monday, May 25): Alex and Roman will present on Learning social norms of cooperation under limited observability
- Doctoral Consortium (Monday, May 25): Roman will give a pitch and present a poster about his PhD topic: Reputation and Cooperation in Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
- Agents for Social Impact: I’ll give a talk on The impact of AI in human cooperation, summarizing some of our lab’s recent work
- Citizen-Centric MAS Workshop (Tuesday, May 26):
- Alex is presenting on Biased social norms of cooperation in large language models
- João will discuss his work on how Algorithmic Recommendations Alter the Spread of Competing Information
- Mayesha will present her join work with Marta on The Role of Regulatory Institutions in Strategic Lending
- Dimitris will present his most recent work on the challenges of generating realistic persoannnas with LLMs, as a means to test social media interventions.
- Agents in Traffic and Transportation: I’ll give a talk on Games and Reinforcement Learning in Transportation Systems
Or the main conference: - Wednesday, May 27: Marta Couto will be presenting on Population Size Effects on Strategic Classification Dynamics (paper)
- Wednesday, May 27: Dimitris Michailidis will present a poster on Inequality in Congestion Games with Learning Agents (paper)
- Friday, May 29: Martin Smit will present on Fairness Dynamics in Digital Economy Platforms with Biased Ratings (paper)
See you there! |
| May 10, 2026 | In Chicago, at NITMB, for a very exciting workshop on Evolutionary Games: Mathematical Theory and Biological Insights. |
| Feb 13, 2026 | Dr. Dimitris Michailidis just defended his PhD! Fantastic work, presentation and defense! Many congratulations! (more info and full thesis here) |
| Jul 17, 2025 | Very happy to be a keynote speaker at the 3rd International Conference on Evolutionary Game Theory and Artificial Intelligence, organized in Hangzhou, China. |
| May 19, 2025 | Attending AAMAS 2025 in Detroit! Several talks by our group members: - Alex is presenting a Main Track paper on using Artificial Agents to mitigate the challenges on Indirect Reciprocity dealing with private reputations; also at the Doctoral Consortium and the C-MAS Workshop
- Dimitris is presenting at the ALA Workshop his recent work on fairenss in congestion games; and a JAAMAS track paper (joint work with Mayesha)
- Roman is presenting his MSc thesis work, completed at TU Delft!
- Mayesha is presenting at the C-MAS Workshop and her JAAMAS Track paper
- I’ll be presenting our work (led by Jennifer Renoux, Joana Campos and Filipa Correia!) on feedback strategies by artificial agents to improve human cooperation.
Exciting!! |
| Mar 2, 2025 | Roman just started as a PhD student in our lab, investigating the prospects of using indirect reciprocity to enable cooperation among learning agents - Welcome, Roman! |
| Mar 1, 2025 | Very honored to be elected as an ELLIS Scholar — thank you very much to the ELLIS unit Amsterdam! More info. |
| Oct 24, 2024 | Just back from a fantastic ECAI, where Alex presented his work on Indirect Reciprocity in Hybrid Populations and Dimitris presented on Multi-objective RL applied to Public Transit Design. Well done! I’m also very happy with the Doctoral Consortium —- really rewarding to see so many commited PhD students and exciting ideas! |
| Sep 24, 2024 | Travelling to the USA (Boston and Cambridge) — very excited to give a talk at the Network Science Institute and participate in the Building a Bigger and Better US conference at MIT Sloan! |
| May 1, 2024 | May is time for AAMAS 2024! I’ll give a keynote talk at the Social Choice and Learning Algorithms Workshop, participate in the Doctoral Consortium Carreer Panel and present joint work with Martin. See you in Auckland! |
| Mar 21, 2024 | Very excited to be awarded an NWO-M grant to study Cooperation and reputation in multi-agent reinforcement learning. More info via UvA and NWO. |
| Nov 13, 2023 | I’m giving an invited talk at the Center for Mathematical Biology, University of Pennsilvanya. |
| Sep 5, 2023 | I’ve been awarded an ERC Starting Grant to study the impacts of algorithmic recommendations on social dynamics, with project RE-LINK! We have 3 open PhD positions to work in this project! Check some news about the ERC StG results and the RE-LINK project by Técnico, UvA, Exame Informática and Público. |
| Aug 30, 2023 | I will be an invited speaker in the 2023 Dutch NetSci Summer Symposium! More info. |
| Jul 3, 2023 | I’ll be giving two invited lectures on the topics of Cooperation, Reputation and Polarization at the 2023 FEBT Summer School on Behavioral Economics (Split, Croatia). More info here. |
| May 29, 2023 | Excited to participate onsite in AAMAS once again, after 3 virtual years! I’m speaking in the Doctoral Consortium panel on carreer advice for PhD students. My group will present 3 papers in the main conference (1 full, 2 posters) and 3 papers in satellite workshops (ALA and C-MAS). See you in London! |
| Apr 18, 2023 | I’ll participate in a conversation on Bias and Metrics in AI at the Institute of Advanced Study (Amsterdam), more info. |
| Feb 13, 2023 | Excited to be an invited speaker at the 2023 AI For Behavioral Change Workshop, co-located with AAAI’23. More info at AI4BC website. |
| Feb 10, 2023 | Happy to be selected to the AAAI 2023 New Faculty Highlights! Will give a talk summarizing my work and research agenda on Feb 10th at AAAI’23 (Washington DC, USA). |
| Jun 8, 2022 | I’m giving an invited lecture, on Fairness in AI, at the Data Futures Lab (Amsterdam University College), a course coordinated by the amazing Paul Verhagen. |