Dr Yali Du is a Senior Lecturer in Artificial Intelligence in the Department of Informatics at King’s College London. She leads the Cooperative AI Lab. Her research aims to enable machines to exhibit cooperative and responsible behaviour in intelligent decision making tasks. Her work focuses on reinforcement learning and multi-agent cooperation, with topics such as generalization, zero-shot coordination, evaluation of human and AI players, and social agency (e.g. human-involved learning, safety and ethics). She was chosen for the AAAI New Faculty Highlights award (2023), Rising Star in AI 2023. She has given tutorials on cooperative multi-agent learning at ACML 2022 and AAAI 2023. She serves as the editor for the Journal of AAMAS and IEEE Transactions on AI, and is part of the organising committee for AAMAS 2023. Her research is also supported by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (UKRI-EPSRC).

Research interests

• Multi-Agent Cooperation and Coordination
• Reinforcement Learning and Generalisation
• Evaluation of Human and AI players
• Social Aspects of Learning Agents (e.g. explainability, human-in-the-loop learning, ethics)
• Applications in Game AI, Data Science, etc

More information

• Personal website
• Cooperative AI Lab