Fernando P. Santos

📢 Are you looking for a PhD on Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning and Cooperation? At @UvA_Amsterdam @UvA_IvI we have an open PhD position for advancing indirect reciprocity methods to promote cooperation in MARL. Deadline: Oct 2 vacatures.uva.nl/UvA/job/PhD-Po… Thanks for sharing🙂

Under what conditions does collective intelligence improve individual as well as societal welfare? Answering this question requires taking seriously complexity of individual and collective behavior, yet most rigorous work—in the service of conceptual and mathematical tractability—prioritizes one level of analysis at the expense of others levels. In this @PNASNews paper, led by @WolframBarfuss, we chart a course towards a principled formal framework for studying how collective cooperative intelligence emerges from the interactions of complex information processing agents learning in group settings. The main value of the paper is that it draws together useful aspects of multiagent reinforcement learning, collective computation and collective behavior, and collective reinforcement learning dynamics, with nods to many other relevant areas of AI and complexity science—like the study of critical points and phase transitions,—to bring into focus the mathematical properties a principled framework needs to have to move beyond toy model insights and build a theory of collective intelligence that can inform intervention in real world systems, as well as help build better artificial intelligence. pnas.org/doi/pdf/10.107…

We are happy to announce the 3rd Workshop on Evolutionary Dynamics in social, cooperative and hybrid AI #EDAI2025 🤩 📍 Bologna, Italy at #ECAI2025 📆 October 25 or 26, 2025 🗞️ Submission deadline: 17 July 2025 23:59 CET 🔔 Workshop website: edai-workshop.github.io/2025/

Thank you to the HAIC organizers @iclr_conf ! Very friendly environment and interesting discussions today @Mila_Quebec

[new paper] What if empowering just a handful of key “gatekeepers” could choke off a wildfire of misinformation — no matter how eager the rest of the network is to share?

Happy to announce "Performative Prediction on Games and Mechanism Design" was accepted at @aistats_conf 2025, and got spotlight at HAIC(@iclr_conf workshop) with @mhrnz_m @fernandopsantos @gauthier_gidel @SimonLacosteJ (Mila and UvA) arxiv.org/abs/2408.05146 Details below 1/9🧵

Call for papers: International Workshop on Citizen-Centric Multiagent Systems (C-MAS 2025) - May 2025, Detroit, USA Explore MAS solutions prioritising citizens in challenges like energy decarbonisation, disaster response, and smart mobility. Details: sites.google.com/view/cmas25

🚨 PhD position alert! 🚨 I'm hiring a fully funded PhD student to work on mechanistic interpretability at @UvA_Amsterdam. If you're interested in reverse engineering modern deep learning architectures, please apply: vacatures.uva.nl/UvA/job/PhD-Po…

A reminder: 10 days left to apply for a 3-year Post-Doc position at IT:U in Linz, Austria. Targeted at people curious about economic games and human behavior, working with models and/or experiments. 🙂

Thrilled to share that I'm starting my own lab at UC Irvine in April 2025 and am recruiting at all levels - please spread the word! My lab will study how microbes interact and evolve in complex communities like the human gut microbiome. kxuelab.com 1/2

We’ve just dropped by the “Doctoral Consortium” 🧠 where, along with some of the most refreshing talks 🤔, we caught a round of quick presentations 🏃💨. #DoctoralConsortium #ECAI2024 #AcademicResearch #AI

Funded PhD Opportunity!🤓💻 Passionate about addressing economic and social challenges such as inequality, the impact of AI, and the Green transition? Want to learn more about LLMs, Reinforcement Learning, Networks, and Agent-Based Modelling? See 👇 findaphd.com/phds/project/a…

📢 Are you looking for a PhD on Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning and Cooperation? At @UvA_Amsterdam @UvA_IvI we have an open PhD position for advancing indirect reciprocity methods to promote cooperation in MARL. Deadline: Oct 2 vacatures.uva.nl/UvA/job/PhD-Po… Thanks for sharing🙂

@omiguelvasco @paivaamp @facsmelo Muitos parabéns, Miguel! Bem merecido!

Please consider submit an abstract or paper to our @ecai2024 EDAI 2024 workshop: Evolutionary Dynamics in social, cooperative and hybrid AI; which takes place in October in Santiago de Compostela edai-workshop.github.io/2024/ @esocrats @GokhaleCS @paivaamp

Arriving today in Vienna for @icmlconf! I’ll present “Performative Prediction on Games and Mechanism Design” @agenticmarkets workshop, in collaboration with @mhrnz_m @fernandopsantos @SimonLacosteJ @gauthier_gidel from Mila and UvA openreview.net/forum?id=Bz92E… Details below 1/7🧵

@ecai2024 #ECAI2024

*ECAI-24 Doctoral Consortium* Still time to apply, until the end of this week (July 5) Great opportunity, not only to get career advice and feedback on your research, but also meet other PhD students working in your field 🙂 ecai2024.eu/calls/doctoral…

Can school segregation be tackled with transport interventions? We explore this question in our latest paper using agent-based models on networks, with some interesting results on Amsterdam! Check it out 👇

Excited to host the @CAIL_Amsterdam group and @niravajmeri’s team for a workshop on Citizen-Centric and Civic AI at the @FutureTownsHub / @unisouthampton