Since 2022, Dr Leonardo Stella is an Assistant Professor in Computer Science at the School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham. Between 2019 and 2021, he was a Lecturer in Computer Games Programming at the University of Derby, School of Computing and Engineering. His work has been published in high-impact international journals such as IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control (TACON), Automatica, IEEE Control Systems Letters (L-CSS), International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control (IJRNC) and SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization (SICON), and top conferences including the International Conference for Autonomous Agents and Multi-agent Systems (AAMAS), IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), IFAC World Congress. Dr Stella has been Guest Editor for the International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control (IJRNC). Furthermore, he has worked as ad-hoc reviewer for major journals and conferences including IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Automatica, IEEE Control Systems Letters, IEEE Conference in Decision and Control, American Control Conference, NeurIPS, SIAM journals, International Conference for Autonomous Agents and Multi-agent Systems (AAMAS).

His work focuses on game theory, systems and control, multi-agent learning, and optimisation with applications to bio-chemical and cyber-physical systems. He recently received £630k in funding from ARIA to work on safeguarded AI for degradation in biopharmaceutical manufacturing collaborating with AstraZeneca UK and US.

Topics:
Game theory, evolutionary game dynamics, mean-field games, nonlinear and hybrid systems, multi-agent learning, reinforcement learning, multi-agent reinforcement learning, optimisation.

Applications:
Biological and bio-chemical systems, learning, cyber-physical systems, additive manufacturing and nuclear materials, financial markets, opinion dynamics and consensus.

• Game theory
• Systems and control
• Multi-agent learning
• Optimisation

• PhD in Automatic Control and Systems Engineering, The University of Sheffield (2019)
• Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (2018)
• Laurea Magistrale (MSc) in Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, La Sapienza Università di Roma (2016)
• Laurea Triennale (BSc) in Computer Engineering, Università degli Studi di Palermo (2013)