About
Dr Soorati is an Assistant Professor of AI at the University of Southampton. He is interested in human-swarm interaction, swarm robotics, trust in human-swarm teaming, aerial swarms, and evolutionary/bio-robotics. He is sitting on the board of Center for Machine Intelligence and Center for Robotics at the University of Southampton. His research has been covered by several international news outlets (including EuroNews, France24 and Deutsche Welle) and magazines (such as IEEE Spectrum, Robohub and Future Maisons). He is a co-investigator of an EPSRC project on 5G-connnected UAVs and project lead on eXplainable Human-swarm Systems.
He is an associate editor of ICRA, an academic editor of the PLOS ONE Journal, sponsor chair of ANTS, a member of the program committee of many high-impact conferences/journals in AI & robotics such as IJCAI, AAAI, IROS, AAMAS, Swarm Intelligence Journal, etc.