Yali Du
Head Of Distributed AI Group at The Alan Turing Institute
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolYali 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
Github Skills (20)
reward8
multi-agent6
multiclass-classification5
q-learning5
ray5
cnn-model5
agent5
python5
multi-agent-reinforcement-learning5
classification5
natural-language-processing4
nlp4
deep-reinforcement-learning4
reinforcement-learning4
deep-learning3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
yalidu/yalidu.github.io
Mar 2020 - Mar 2025
Github Pages template for academic personal websites, forked from mmistakes/minimal-mistakes
Contributions:342 pushes in 5 years 1 month
templategithub-pages-templatemmistakesmistakesjekyll
yalidu/optEval
Jan 2021 - Aug 2021
Contributions:3 commits, 1 push in 6 months
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