Current PhD students

• Arnau Mayoral (co-advised by Manel Rodríguez-Soto) - Topic: Automated design of learning environments for the learning of value-aligned policies

• Roger X. Lera-Leri (co-advised by Filippo Bistaffa) - Topic: Explainability for optimisation-based decision support systems

Former PhD students

• Athina Georgara (PhD in 2023), currently post-doc at the University of Southampton 

Thesis: Trustworthy task allocation for human teams

• Manel Rodríguez Soto (PhD in 2023), currently Research Fellow at IIIA-CSIC 

Thesis: Reinforcement learning for value alignment

Extraordinary Doctoral Award – academic year 2022–23 by the University of Barcelona

• Jordi Ganzer Ripoll (PhD in 2022), currently High-school teacher 

Thesis: Collective reasoning on multi-agent debates: A coherent approach

• Marc Serramià Amorós (PhD in 2021), currently post-doc at IIIA-CSIC   

Thesis: Value-aligned norm selection

Winner of the Prize of the Spanish Computer Science Society to Young Computer Scientists sponsored by BBVA Foundation, 2023

Best PhD on Artificial Intelligence 2022 by the Catalan Association of Artificial Intelligence

• Ewa Andrejczuk (industrial PhD in 2018), currently Research Engineer at  Google Deepmind, Zurich, Switzerland

 Thesis: Artificial Intelligence methods to support people management in organisations

• Francisco Salas (PhD in 2017), currently Associate Professor at Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain 

 Thesis: Data-driven decision-making and its application to the corporate cash management problem

Best PhD on Multi-criteria Decision-making 2019 by the Spanish Society on Statistics and Operations Research

• Javier Morales (PhD in 2015), currently AI Director at Preply

Thesis: On-line norm synthesis for open multi-agent systems

• Marc Pujol-González (PhD in 2014), currently Chief Technology Officer at Interficie, Barcelona, Spain

Thesis: Scaling DCOP algorithms for cooperative multi-agent coordination

• Toni Penya-Alba (PhD in 2014), currently Senior Machine Learning Engineering Manager at Belvo

Thesis: Approximate algorithms for decentralised supply chain formation

• Meritxell Vinyals (PhD in 2011), currently Permanent Researcher at INRAE (Institut National de Recherche pour l'Agriculture, l'Alimentation et l'Environnement ), France

Thesis: Exploiting the structure of distributed constraint optimisation problems to assess and bound coordinated actions in multi-agent systems

• Andrés García-Camino (PhD in 2008)

Thesis: Normative regulation of open multi-agent systems

• Andrea Giovannucci (PhD in 2008), currently Senior Principal Research Scientist at Bristol Myers Squibb, Seville, Spain

Thesis: Computationally-manageable mixed multi-unit combinatorial auctions

Runner-up for the Best Phd on Artificial Intelligence 2008 (awarded by the European Association for Artificial Intelligence (EurAI))

current MSc students

• Antonio Lobo - Topic: Value alignment of Generative AI

Former MSc students

• Fabio Tranchitella (2025)

• Jorge Rubio Suárez (2024)

• Arnau Mayoral Macau (2023)

• Adrià Fenoy (2019)

• Carlos Mougan (2019)

• Manel Rodríguez (2019) Second place Best MSc on AI 2019 (awarded by the Catalan Association of Artificial Intelligence)

• Sergi Cebrián (2018)

• Marc Serramià (2018)

• Iosu Mendizabal (2015)

• David Sánchez-Pinsach (2015)

• Toni Penya-Alba (2012) Best MSc on AI 2012 (awarded by the Catalan Association of Artificial Intelligence)

• Marc Pujol-González (2009)

• Pablo Almajano (2008)

• Meritxell Vinyals (2007)

• Eva Bou (2007)

• Andrés García-Camino (2006)

• Andrea Giovanucci (2006)