Professor Jonathan Lawry
B.Sc.(C.N.A.A.), Ph.D.(Manc.)
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Projects and supervisions
Research projects
Information Theory for Interactive Distributed AI
Principal Investigator
Role
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of MathematicsDates
01/02/2024 to 31/01/2029
Prosperity Partnership with Thales
Principal Investigator
Role
Co-Investigator
Dates
01/10/2017 to 31/03/2023
Opinion Pooling in Robot Swarms
Principal Investigator
Dates
04/07/2016 to 03/10/2016
FLOOD RISK MANAGEMENT CONSORTIUM (FRMRC) PHASE 2
Principal Investigator
Dates
01/08/2008 to 01/08/2011
WORKSHOP ON SOFT METHODS IN PROBABILITY AND STATISTICS
Principal Investigator
Dates
01/04/2006 to 01/07/2006
Thesis supervisions
Exploiting Vagueness for Multi-Agent Consensus
Supervisors
Multi-source heterogeneous intelligence fusion
Supervisors
Natural language claims consistency checking using probabilistic reasoning with explanation
Supervisors
Imprecision in Social Learning
Supervisors
Development of Flight Rules and Distributed Traffic Management for Autonomous UAVs
Supervisors
Towards Context-Aware Recommender Systems for Tourists
Supervisors
Heterogeneity in Multi-Agent Systems
Supervisors
Representation learning for OOD detection and explanation
Supervisors
Tree Models for Interpretable Agents
Supervisors
Publications
Recent publications
24/09/2026Axiomatic Reinforcement Learning for Open Multi-Agent Systems from Shapley Axioms: NeurIPS 2026 - The Fortieth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems - Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems
Neurips 2026 Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems
Collective Ranking of Environmental Signals through Gaussian Belief Propagation in a Patrolling Robot Swarm: The 18th International Symposium on Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems - Springer Proceedings in Advanced Robotics
Proceedings of the 18th International Symposium on Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems
Emergent Spatial Map Completion in Neural Cellular Automata: ALIFE 2026 - ALIFE: Proceedings of the Artificial Life Conference
ALIFE 2026
The Collective Dynamics of Structured Beliefs: ALIFE 2026 - ALIFE: Proceedings of the Artificial Life Conference
ALIFE 2026
A Gaussian Bounded Confidence Model for Resist Misinformation in Swarm Robotics: ANTS 2026
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