معرفی
Professor Amanda Prorok leads the Prorok Lab at the University of Cambridge's Department of Computer Science and Technology, focusing on multi-agent and multi-robot systems. Her work integrates machine learning, planning, and control to coordinate intelligent agents in shared environments, with applications in transport, environmental monitoring, and search-and-rescue. She is a Fellow of Pembroke College and holds editorial roles at IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters and Autonomous Robots.
Education: Ph.D., EPFL (Switzerland); Postdoctoral Research, University of Pennsylvania (USA).
Research Interests: The lab pioneers methods like differentiable communication between learning agents and develops decentralized algorithms for navigation, coverage, and coordination. Key themes include neural diversity in collective learning, resilient swarm systems, and environment-aware control.
Notable Achievements:
- ERC Starting Grant, Amazon Research Award, EPSRC New Investigator Award
- ABB Prize for Best Thesis in Computer Science (EPFL)
Teaching: Leads Computing for Collective Intelligence (MPhil/Part III) modules.
Lab & Infrastructure: The Prorok Lab operates the Cambridge RoboMaster platform and develops testbeds for connected vehicles and robot swarms. Recent work emphasizes scalable reinforcement learning and graph neural networks for decentralized decision-making.
