Yuan Yao received his B.S. degree in Computer Science from University of Nottingham in 2012 and his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the same university in 2017. He is currently an assistant professor in the School of Computer Science, University of Nottingham Ningbo China. Prior to that, he was a lecturer in the School of Computer Science and Technology, Zhejiang University of Technology. 

DBLP: https://dblp.org/pid/25/4120-7.html

Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=cLg0sjYAAAAJ

ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0002-2705-6245

My research interests are in Artificial Intelligence, in particular, the area of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) including the following topics: Agent Reasoning (How can agents behave in smart ways), Agent Learning (How can agents learn from the environment), Agent Architecture and Agent Programming Languages (How to effectively develop agent-based systems), Logics and Verification (How to verify and validate large-scale Multi-Agent Systems). I’m also interested in Agent-Oriented Software Development (e.g., how to integrate MAS engineering with mainstream software engineering models, languages, frameworks and tools), and MAS applications in specific domains.

• COMP1048: Databases and Interfaces
• COMP1039: Programming Paradigms