Rate My Professor Kostas Stathis

Professor Kostas Stathis is Professor of Artificial Intelligence in the Department of Computer Science at Royal Holloway, University of London. He earned his PhD from Imperial College London in 1996, with a doctoral thesis titled 'Game-Based Development of Interactive Systems'. Since June 2006, he has been at Royal Holloway, where he currently also serves as Vice-Dean for Research and Knowledge Exchange in the School of Engineering, Physical and Mathematical Sciences and Interim Director of the Centre for AI and Skills. He is affiliated with the Centre for Intelligent Systems and the Centre for Programming Languages and Systems, and leads the Distributed and Intelligent Computing Environments (DICE) Lab.

Stathis's research focuses on the intersection of artificial intelligence, distributed systems, and software engineering, developing autonomous, cognitively capable, and socially aware systems. His academic interests encompass cognitive architectures and autonomous agent models for adaptive and explainable behaviour; knowledge representation, reasoning, and cognition in distributed intelligent systems; game-theoretic and strategic interaction models for learning and decision-making under incomplete knowledge, limited resources, and dynamic environments; multi-agent learning and coordination strategies for decentralised intelligence; organisation, governance, and regulation in artificial societies and human-AI ecosystems; and programmable multi-agent environments and simulation platforms for experimentation and deployment. He applies these methods to domains including digital markets, computational law and regulation, autonomous e-services, and game-theoretic experimentation. Stathis has authored or co-authored 134 research outputs, including key recent publications such as 'Approximating Human Strategic Reasoning with LLM-Enhanced Recursive Reasoners Leveraging Multi-agent Hypergames' (2026, International Workshop on Multi-Agent-Based Simulation), 'DeCoRA: Definition and Context Reasoning in Argumentation' (2026, International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law), 'Towards a Common Framework for Autoformalization' (2026, AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence), and 'Adaptive Strategy Templates using Deep Reinforcement Learning for Multi-Issue Bilateral Negotiation' (2025, Neurocomputing). He has contributed to 13 research projects, serving as Principal Investigator on COMMODITY12 (2014-2015) and Co-Principal Investigator on iRealHAT-PEGA (2022-2025), among others exploring AI in regulatory decision-making and human-agent teaming. Stathis serves as Editor for the Artificial Intelligence journal since 2024, has organized the 36th International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (2024), and delivered public lectures on strategic AI and autoformalization.