Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning:
Foundations and Modern Approaches

Dr. Stefano V. Albrecht is Associate Professor in Artificial Intelligence in the School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh. He leads the Autonomous Agents Research Group (https://agents.inf.ed.ac.uk) which specialises in developing machine learning algorithms for autonomous systems control and decision making, with a particular focus on reinforcement learning and multi-agent interaction. In his roles as Royal Academy of Engineering and Royal Society Industrial Fellow, he actively develops industry applications in the areas of multi-robot warehouses with Dematic/KION, and autonomous driving with Five AI which completed one of the most extensive urban road trials of autonomous driving in London before being acquired by Bosch in 2022. Dr. Albrecht is affiliated with the Alan Turing Institute where he leads the Multi-Agent Systems theme. In 2022, he was nominated for the IJCAI Computers and Thought Award based on his research which introduced Stochastic Bayesian Games and optimal solution algorithms, which have since been applied in a range of domains. Previously, Dr. Albrecht was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Texas at Austin working with Prof. Peter Stone. He obtained PhD and MSc degrees in Artificial Intelligence from the University of Edinburgh, and a BSc degree in Computer Science from Technical University of Darmstadt. He is co-author of the new MIT Press textbook "Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning: Foundations and Modern Approaches" which is freely available at www.marl-book.com.