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Dr. Amanda Coles is a Senior Lecturer in Computer Science at the Department of Informatics, King's College London, within the Faculty of Natural, Mathematical & Engineering Sciences. She is a leading researcher in Artificial Intelligence Planning, focusing on temporal, continuous, and preference-based planning, with applications in robotics, space, healthcare, and autonomous systems.
- University: King's College London
- School: Faculty of Natural, Mathematical & Engineering Sciences
- Department: Department of Informatics
- Academic Rank: Senior Lecturer
- Email: amanda.coles@kcl.ac.uk
- ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1838-8301
Her research centers on advanced AI planning techniques, including planning under uncertainty, numeric and temporal reasoning, and explainability in planning systems. She investigates how AI can support decision-making in complex domains such as space robotics (e.g., ERGO, ADE projects), multimorbid patient management, and power systems. Her work often integrates constraint programming, heuristic search, and optimization to improve planner efficiency and expressiveness.
Her recent publications (2019–2024) reflect a strong focus on explainable AI in planning, with user studies informing the design of interpretable planning systems. She also continues to advance core planning technologies, such as handling nonlinear change, disjunctive scheduling, and metastate abstractions. Her work bridges theoretical AI with practical deployment in real-world autonomous systems.
- EPSRC Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship (2010–2013)
- Invited speaker at IJCAI Early Career Spotlight (2016)
Dr. Coles has led multiple externally funded research projects, including from EPSRC and the European Commission (e.g., ERGO, ADE, POLARIS), focusing on scalable planning, continuous change, and autonomy in robotics. She has edited major conference proceedings (e.g., ICAPS 2016) and co-developed influential planning systems like COLIN and PDDL+. She actively supervises research students and collaborates across disciplines, contributing to the development of trustable autonomous systems at King's College London.
She is a key member of the Planning, Reasoning and Planning research group and the Trusted Autonomous Systems Hub, where her work supports the development of reliable, explainable, and efficient autonomous decision-making systems for future applications.
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