Awards

Grants/Funding: 

• • EPSRC Standard grant (PI), 2024 - 2026. Evolutionary Game Theory under Uncertainty (£271k)  

  • Future of Life institute AI safety mini-grant (PI), 06/2023, 13.5k. 

  • Future of Life institute AI safety mini-grant (PI), 01/2023, 14k. 

  • Leverhulme Research Fellowship (PI), 2020 - 2022; Incentives for Commitment Compliance. £54K  Leverhulme Trust Foundation 

  • EPSRC - The Alan Turing Institute (co-lead), 2022.   Turing Network Development Award. £24K. (Press release; Newcastle Magazine; 

  • Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative (BERI), 2021. trial collaboration fund 2021 (10k US$) 

  •  Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP), Innovate UK - Artificial Intelligence to optimise the efficiency and sustainability of last-mile delivery systems. with The Algorithm People,  co-PI £183K, 2020-2022

  • NIHR ARC. Modelling financial incentives to motivate pregnant smokers to quit - using Evolutionary Game Theory. Lead Modeller (1 part-time PhD assistant) , £50k, 2020-2022   (Blog post about the project) 

  • Future of Life Institute Grant for AI Safety, "Incentives for Safety Agreement Compliance in AI Race"  (PI, 224k US$), 11/2018 - 11/2020                   (Press releases: Teesside University  BBC Tees Radio   Northern Eco TeesBusiness  North East Chamber of Commerce) 

Research outputs from this project were cited (refs 662 & 663) in the 2024 International Scientific Report on the Safety of Advanced AI from the AI Seoul summit - commissioned by the UK government and chaired by Yoshua Bengio

• • Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP), with MODUS Seabed interventions Ltd based in Darlington; (co-PI, £177,484), 2019 - 2021 

    • • (to develop, trial and launch a capability for multiple autonomous vehicle platforms to operate and work collaboratively using Artificial Intelligence)

  • Belgium FWO Postdoctoral fellowship; title “Adaptive Preferences for a Changing World: an AI study in the co-evolution of preferences and group formation “ (PI,  180k Euro), 10/2012 - 10/2014 

  • Teesside University Grand Challenge Seed Funding, title “Applying psychological experiments and mathematical modelling to understanding consumers’ decision-making and behaviour “, 01-10/2018 (PI, £3k); 

  • Teesside University URF funding, title “Why is it so hard to say sorry: the role of intent to punish? An agent-based modelling study” 2015-2017 (PI, £5k); 

  • Funding for students researchers (SAR), 2016, 2017, 2018 (PI, £3k); 

  • Portuguese National Doctoral Scholarship, 01/2010 - 05/2012:   (4-year grant, FCT/MCTES).

Awards/Scholarships 

• • 2023: In the Stanford list of top 2% scientists worldwide 

  • 2019: University Star Award  in Innovation and Enterprise  

  • 2008:   Portuguese National Prize for Artificial Intelligence graduation project (TleIA 2008). 

  • 2007-2009: Erasmus Mundus Master scholarship in Computational Logic (with distinction)

  • 2003-2007: Vietnamese National scholarship for studying in Applied Mathmatics faculty, St. Petersburg state university, Russia  (with distinction) 

  • Elsevier Certificate of Outstanding Contribution in Reviewing, Journal of Knowledge-based Systems, 2017.

  • Elsevier Certificate of Outstanding Contribution in Reviewing, Journal of Theoretical Biology, 2016.

  • Before 2002: Several awards at Mathematical Olympiads at high school and secondary school.

Teaching Qualification: 

• Postgraduate Certificate in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education (PgCLTHE), 2016:  Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (UK).