Team

Principal Investigator

Dr. Stefan Sarkadi is a Proleptic Lecturer and RAEng UK IC Research Fellow. Previously, he was a 3iA Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Inria and 3iA Côte d’Azur advised by Fabien Gandon, and a Postdoc in the HASP lab at King’s with Jose Such. Before that, he gained his PhD in AI at King’s under the supervision of Peter McBurney and Simon Parsons, while he was also a visiting PhD researcher at the MIT Media Lab in the Scalable Cooperation Group advised by Iyad Rahwan. His background is multidisciplinary, built on a PhD in Computer Science from King’s College London, a Master’s in Cognitive Science from the University of Edinburgh, and a Bachelor’s in Philosophy from the West University of Timisoara.

Co-Investigators

Dr. Peta Masters is a RAEng UK IC Research Fellow. Peta gained her doctorate at RMIT in Melbourne with a thesis on goal recognition and deception in path-planning and her first paper, with supervisor Sebastian Sardina, won the Pragnesh Jay Modi Best Student Paper Award at AAMAS17. She worked on Deceptive AI at the University of Melbourne with Liz Sonenberg and a multi-disciplinary team under the direction of Wally Smith, a psychologist and amateur magician. She was previously a researcher with the Trustworthy Autonomous Systems (TAS) Hub at King’s College London where she was PI for the TAS Benchmarks Library and Critical Review.

PhD Students

Andrei Bogdan Balcau (Stefan co-supervision with Prof. Carmine Ventre (main) @KCL). Andrei Balcau is a PhD researcher at King’s and Imperial College London in the UKRI Safe and Trusted AI Centre for Doctoral Training. His research focuses on creating digital twins for socio-technical complex systems. Before his PhD studies, Andrei received a First Class (Honours) Computer Science (Artificial Intelligence) MSci at King’s College London. Andrei’s main interests lie at the intersection of Computer Science and Economics, tackling AI alignment and surveillance problems.