Summary
Yali Du is a research-led AI scientist and group head at King’s College London, specializing in multi-agent reinforcement learning, cooperative AI, and value alignment with nine years of research experience. As Head of the Distributed AI Group and a Turing Fellow at The Alan Turing Institute, she bridges foundational research and practical coordination challenges like scalable cooperation and Human-AI teaming. Her work has earned recognition such as the AAAI New Faculty Highlights award and Rising Star in AI, and she’s shared expertise via tutorials at ACML and AAAI. Beyond publications, Yali contributes to the field through editorial roles at AAMAS and IEEE Transactions on AI and by helping organize flagship conferences including AAMAS and NeurIPS. A PhD-trained researcher who progressed rapidly from UCL research fellow to associate professor and group lead, she combines rigorous theory with a growing focus on deployable, responsible multi-agent systems.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Candidate Computer Science, PhD Candidate Computer Science at University of Technology Sydney
English, Chinese