Staff

  • Prof. John Thangarajah
    BDI agents, Agent programming; Agent Software Sngineering; Agent Goal reasoning, Knowledge Management, interactive agents, Games and AI techniques. Student projects supervised by me.
  • Prof. Lin Padgham
    BDI agents and extended BDI reasoning; agent oriented software engineering; agent oriented applications; agent learning; emotional modelling in agents; agent architectures; agent based simulations and games; environmental applications using agents; formalisation of commonsense reasoning.
  • A/Prof. James Harland
    computability logic & mathematical logic for computer science; BDI reasoning systems; modal & temporal linear logic; logic-programming
  • A/Prof. Lawrence Cavedon
    Dialogue systems for human-machine interaction; conversational agents; agent architectures; collaboration in multi-agent teams; logics for reasoning about BDI agents; AI and cognitive science
  • A/Prof. Fabio Zambetta
    Interactive storytelling; believable 3D characters; software engineering and tools in games; virtual reality; human-computer interaction (natural user interfaces)
  • A/Prof. Sebastian Sardina
    Reasoning about action and change; automated planning; knowledge representation and change.
  • Dr. Julie Porteus
    Interactive Story Telling, Planning, Narrative generation, human-computer interaction
  • Dr. Timothy Wiley
    Social robotics, Machine Learning, Robot Soccer.

Postdocs & RAs

  • Dhirendra Singh(postdoc): Agent-based modelling and simulation; BDI agent systems; agent programming; machine learning
  • Rick Evertsz (senior postdoc) : Cognitive modelling, Agent based simulations, agent implementations.
  • Damiano Spina (postdoc): Social media, opinion mining, software engineering, natural language processing, information retrieval

Students

  • Michael Dann (PhD), Abstract Learning for Video Games. Supervised by John Thangarajah and Fabio Zambetta
  • Maria Vukovic (PhD), Using Speech Interfaces to support human task performance in complex training environments.  Supervised by John Thangarajah and Lawrence Cavedon
  • Anthony Woolley (PhD), Modelling Crew behaviours for Warship Damage Control.  Supervised by John Thangarajah and Rick Evertsz
  • Bhagya Wickramasinghe (PhD), Integrating different data sources to synthesise agent populations
    Supervised by Lin Padgham and Shane Culpepper
  • Chaminda Bulmulla (PhD), Modelling human behaviour in agent based simulations
    Supervised by Lin Padgham and Jeffrey Chan
  • Max Waters (PhD), Validation and analysis of Agent-based models by Lin Padgham and Sebastian Sardina
  • Peta Masters (PhD), Goal Recognition and Deception in Path-Planning
    Supervised by Sebastian Sardina