Terry Payne

Summary

Research Scientist, Academic, Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Authority. Terry has been actively working in the research field of Distributed AI and Multi-Agent Systems since 1994. Winner of several research and teaching awards, he is currently a Senior Lecturer at the University of Liverpool; he is a senior fellow of the Higher Education Authority, and is the Academic Lead for Student Recruitment, Admissions and Widening Participation for the Faculty of Science and Engineering. His research interests are primarily in the use of ontological knowledge for the support of agent / service discovery and provision, and is exploring the use of different LLM models in the support of ontology engineering for services, and ontology / Knowledge Graph alignment. He has also worked on coalition formation and self-organising agent communities, as well as machine learning for adaptive agents. After originally graduating with a BSc in Computer Systems Engineering at the University of Kent (at Canterbury) in 1990, he spent three formative years in industry as a Software Engineer, before returning to academia to study for an MSc in Applied AI, and a PhD in Machine Learning at the Computing Science Department, University of Aberdeen, Scotland. He moved to Pittsburgh, USA to work at the Intelligent Software Agents Laboratory, part of the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, before taking up a faculty position at the University of Southampton, and later, at the University of Liverpool. Since becoming faculty, he has also spent time as a visiting scientist at several international universities; including the Mindswap labs at UMD, the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, the Nokia Research Center, Cambridge, and CSAIL (Massachusetts Institute of Technology).