Honors

Presidential address, British Science Festival (Exeter), 2023.
Second place (with Team), Argument Mining Task, 2022
Machine learning journal best student paper award, International Conference on Inductive Logic Programming, 2019
Best paper, The Fourth International Workshop on Declarative Learning Based Programming at IJCAI, 2019
Royal Society University Research Fellowship, 2019
Member of Royal Society of Edinburgh Young Academy of Scotland, 2018
Faculty Fellow, Alan Turing Institute, 2017
Early Career Spotlight, 26th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2017
Chancellor’s fellowship, 2016
Microsoft Best paper award, 31st Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, 2015
Machine learning journal best student paper award, European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases, 2015
FWO postdoctoral fellowship, 2015
Silver medal, Kurt Goedel Society, 2014
Finalist, Kurt Goedel Fellowship, 2014
Young scientist attendee, Heidelberg Laureate Forum, 2014
Second place (with Team), RoboCup@Home league, International RoboCup Competition, 2008
First place (with Team), RoboCup@Home league, RoboCup German Open Competition, 2008
Bonn-Aachen International Center scholarship, 2010
DFG Graduate school (GK 643) scholarship, 2008
EUMI Scholarship, 2005
Melton Foundation fellowship, 2002

Consultancy

I am consulting and collaborating with a number of industry and educational partners, including the NatWest Group, on explainable AI

Enabling a responsible AI ecosystem, AHRC, with Shannon Vallor and Ewa Luger, 2022
The New Real – Trust and acceptance in networked, online experiences to enable and support post-COVID19 recovery, AHRC, with Drew Hemment, 2021
Governance node, UKRI Trustworthy Autonomous Systems Programme, with Ram, 2020
Efficient Inference and Learning in Probabilistic Logical Models, Royal Society University Research Fellowship, 2019
Explainable AI for credit risk, EPSRC IAA (with Raffaella Calabrese), 2019
Probabilistic property-based testing, Industry supported studentship (with James Cheney), 2018
Towards Explainable and Robust Statistical AI: A Symbolic Approach, EPSRC First Grant, 2018

An archive of scientific events that I organized and/or participated in can be found here
Co-Chair of KR-ML special track, KR 2021
Co-Organizer of Dagstuhl seminar on trustworthy AI, Dagstuhl 2021
Co-Chair of Doctoral Consortium, KR 2020
Co-Chair of Young researchers symposium, CODS-COMAD 2020
Chair for IJCAI-17 Sister Conference Best Paper Track
Senior/ Program Committee Member/ Reviewer (not updated regularly): AAAI 2020 (SPC), IJCAI 2020 (SPC), ICLR 2020, UAI 2019, NeurIPS 2019, ICML 2019, AAMAS 2019 (SPC), AAAI 2019 (SPC), ICLR 2019, ECML PKDD 2018, NIPS 2018, AAAI 2018, ICLR 2018, AAMAS 2018 (SPC), JAIR, IJCAI 2018, AAMAS 2017, ECML PKDD 2017, TPLP, IJCAI 2017, AIJ, NIPS 2017, ECML PKDD 2016, ECAI 2016, IJCAI 2016, AAMAS 2016, AAAI 2016, KR 2016, ECML 2015, IJCAI 2015, AAMAS 2015, AAAI 2015, Commonsense 2015, Cognitive Robotics 2014, ECAI 2014, AIJ, IJCAI 2013, Commonsense 2013, IJCAI 2011, Nonmonotonic Reasoning 2010, ACM SIGACT