I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Warwick.

My primary research areas are multi-agent systems, trust and reputation, distributed systems, peer-to-peer and ad-hoc networks, and biological systems. I am a member of the Performance Computing and Visualisation Group and my current research is focused around agent cooperation and self-organisation. Specifically, I am working on the areas of trust, reputation, coalition formation, motivation, social self-organisation, and norm emergence. I am also interested in the practical application of cooperative techniques to peer-to-peer (P2P) systems, ad-hoc networks (including MANETs and VANETs), service-oriented computing, and computational biology. Recent work has focused on trust in ad-hoc networks, the use of agents in modelling biology, and the use of social science and evolutionary biology techniques for establishing cooperation in agent-based systems. More details on my research interests can be found on my research pages.