About Me
I am currently an Assistant Professor (UK Lecturer) at King’s College London. I lead the Cooperative AI Research Lab. My research interest lies in reinforcement learning and multi-agent systems and topics include Multi-Agent Cooperation and Coordination, Reinforcement Learning and Generalisation, Evaluation of Human and AI players, Applications in Game AI, Data Science.
- I am actively looking for PhD students and postdocs to work with me. Check Openings for funding opportunities and topics of interest. Please drop me an email with your CV and interest.
- I am happy to host undergraduate / graduate visitors and supervise summer research projects. Please drop me an email with your CV and interest.
Upcomimg Events
- 7 Feb 2023 - I am selected for the 2023 AAAI New Faculty Highlights Program
- 25 Jan 2023 - I am invited to give a talk on cooperative multi-agent learning at Dept. of Computer Science, University of Warwick, hosted by Prof. Long Tran-Thanh and Prof. Yu Guan
Recent News
- 28 Dec 2022 - I am appointed as the an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on AI editorial board. Look forward to serving the journal!
12 Dec 2022 - I give a tutorial on “Cooperative multi-agent learning: a review of progress and challenges” at ACML 12-14 Dec, 2022 together with Dr. Joel Z. Leibo from DeepMind. More details to be released.
- 1 Sep 2022 - we are organizing the 1st International Workshop on Safe Reinforcement Learning Theory and its Applications at 2022 IEEE International Conference on Multisensor Fusion and Integration (20-22 Sep). Registration Deadline: Sep 1, 2022
- 17 Aug 2022 - I am giving a talk on “Decision Structure in Decentralized Multi-Agent Learning” at International Joint Conference on Theoretical Computer Science – Frontier of Algorithmic Wisdom (IJTCS-FAW) 2022.
- 30 Jun 2022 - One paper on “Scalable model-based policy optimization for decentralized networked systems” has been accepted by 2022 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS).
- 08 Mar 2022 - Invited to give a tutorial at Oxford Machine Learning Summer School. This is a three-hour tutorial on optimisation for machine learning. Welcome to join!
- 21 Jan 2022 - Our paper on offline goal-conditioned reinforcement learning has been accepted by ICLR 2022.
- 10 Dec 2022 - One paper got accepted by AAMAS 2022. We propose to coordinate agents’ behaviors based on directed acyclic graphs (DAGs).
- 10 Nov 2021 - Invited to serve as Session Chair for Reinforcement Learning in Asian Conference on Machine Learning 2021
- 16 Aug 2021 - Invited talk on RLChina summer school, check schedule.
- 07 Aug 2021 - Invited to serve as Senior PC for AAAI 2022.
- 10 Jul 2021 - Our paper on Reinforcement Learning for Vehicle Routing has been accepted by IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics.
- 08 May 2021 - Two papers on multi-agent evaluation by alpha-rank and solving general sum stochastic games are accepted by ICML 2021.
- 29 Apr 2021 - Our paper on reinforcement learning for causal discovery has been accepted by IJCAI-21.
- 16 Jan 2021 - Our paper on reinforcement learning for multi-aspect recommendation has been accepted by The Web Conference.
- 18 Dec 2020 - One paper on learning correlated communication topology for MARL has been accepted by AAMAS 2021 (
LondonOnline) as oral presentation. - 09 Dec 2020 - Invited to serve as the reviewer for ICML 2021.
- 26 Sep 2020 - One paper on RL for text-based games is accepted by NeurIPS 2020.
- 17 Aug 2020 - Invited to serve as the PC for AAAI 2020.
- 4 Apr 2020 - Invited talk at Youth Forum in Center on Frontiers of Computing, Peking University. Details can be found here.
- Mar 2020 - Invited to serve as the Reviewer for NeurIPS and IROS 2020.
- Dec 2019 - Invited to serve as the PC of IJCAI, ICML 2020.
Contact
Email: yali.du AT kcl.ac.uk
Address: Bush House, 30 Aldwych, WC2B 4BG