I am a third-year PhD student at the University of Southampton, UK, under the supervision of Dr Pavel Naumov. My PhD project is titled "Responsibility and Norms in Multiagent Systems".
Before this, I obtained a Master's Degree in Computer Science and Technology from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, a Bachelor's Degree in Accounting and a Second Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science and Technology from Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, China.
Email: mailofshiqi@gmail.com; qi.shi@soton.ac.uk.
Address: E7/1 -- R4027, B32, Highfield Campus, Southampton, SO17 1BJ, UK
I am a theoretical researcher with a focus on Agents and Multiagent Systems. I devote my effort to figuring out
how the agents should act -- AI Ethics, Responsibility, Deontic Logic
how the agents would act -- Game Theory, Epistemic Game Theory
how to incentivise/regulate the actions of agents -- Mechanism Design, Normative System
University of Southampton, UK (12.2022 -- now)
PhD in Computer Science
Supervisor: Dr Pavel Naumov
Agents, Interaction and Complexity Research Group
University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China (09/2019 -- 06/2022)
Master's Degree in Computer Science and Technology
Supervisor: Dr Dong Hao
Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, China (09/2015 -- 09/2019)
Bachelor's Degree in Accounting
Second Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science and Technology
Montpellier Business School, France (09/2017 -- 01/2018)
Undergraduate exchange project, funded by China Scholarship Council
Journal Articles
Qi Shi and Pavel Naumov. Responsibility in multi-step decision schemes. Journal of Philosophical Logic, 54:493-531 2025. 🔗
Qi Shi and Dong Hao. Social sourcing: incorporating social networks into crowdsourcing contest design. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 31:1535–1549, 2023. 🔗
Dong Hao, Dongcheng Zhang, Qi Shi, and Kai Li. Entropy regularized actor-critic based multi-agent deep reinforcement learning for stochastic games. Information Sciences, 617:17–40, 2022. 🔗
Conference Proceedings
Qi Shi and Pavel Naumov. Uncommon belief in rationality. In Proceedings of the 39th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-25), 2025.
Qi Shi. Responsibility in extensive form games. In Proceedings of the 38th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-24), volume 38, pages 19920–19928, 2024. 🔗
Qi Shi. Agentive permissions in multiagent systems. In Proceedings of the 33rd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-24), pages 3558–3566, 2024. 🔗
Qi Shi, Shuai Mao, and Dong Hao. Incentive scoring mechanism design in battle royale games. In Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Algorithms, Computing and Systems, page 13–19, 2021. 🔗
Preprints
Oral Presentation: Uncommon belief in rationality (03.2025)
at the 39th Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-25)
Seminar: Uncommon belief in rationality (02.2025)
at Agents, Interaction and Complexity Research Group, University of Southampton
Seminar: Responsibility and norms in multiagent systems (09.2024)
at Algorithms and Logic Group, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
Oral Presentation: Agentive permissions in multiagent systems (08.2024)
at the 33rd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-24)
Seminar: Responsibility in extensive form games (02.2023)
at Agents, Interaction and Complexity Research Group, University of Southampton
Teaching Assistant
Automatic software verification (graduate) -- 2023, 2024
marking, slide preparation, coursework preparation
Algorithmic game theory (graduate) -- 2023, 2024, 2025
marking, tutorial, invigilation
Algorithmics (undergraduate) -- 2023, 2024, 2025
help (free-question) sessions
Discreet Maths (undergraduate) -- 2020
marking, remote-class assistance
Teaching
Programming language - C/C++ (junior) -- 2021
To Community
PC member/Reviewer for ECAI-24, 25; AAAI-24, 25, 26; IJCAI-25
Student volunteer for IJCAI-24, AAAI-25
To Institution
PhD student representative (12.2023 -- 07.2025)
Lab Management Assistant (09.2020 --09.2021)