Professor Yifeng Zeng

Head Of Department

Department: Computer and Information Sciences

Currently, Prof. Zeng is in the sabbatical leave.��

Dr. Yifeng Zeng is a Professor and the Head of Research and Knowledge Exchange&UoA 11 Lead in the Department of Computer and Information Sciences. He is leading the Autonomous Systems research group. His main research interests include intelligent agents, probabilistic graphical models, deep learning, computational intelligence, digital education and social networks. He received the EPSRC New Investigator Award in 2019 and has managed a number of Innovate UK projects in the past years.��

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Key Publications

Active legibility in multiagent reinforcement learning, Liu, Y., Pan, Y., Zeng, Y., Ma, B., Prashant, D. 1 Sep 2025, In: Artificial Intelligence
Automate Legibility through Inverse Reinforcement Learning, Zeng, B., Pan, Y., Tang, J., Zeng, Y. 21 May 2025, In: ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems
Cooperative Multiagent Learning and Exploration With Min-Max Intrinsic Motivation, Hou, Y., Kang, J., Piao, H., Zeng, Y., Ong, Y., Jin, Y., Zhang, Q. 1 Jun 2025, In: IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics
Improved decisions for unknown behaviours in interactive dynamic influence diagrams, Pan, Y., Zhou, M., Ma, B., Zeng, Y., Ong, Y., Liu, G. 30 Aug 2025, In: Artificial Intelligence Review
SpikePR: Position Regression with Deep Spiking Neural Network, Huang, Z., Zeng, Y., Poslad, S., Gu, F. 1 Feb 2025, In: IEEE Sensors Journal
A2GSTran: Depth Map Super-resolution via Asymmetric Attention with Guidance Selection, Zuo, Y., Xu, Y., Zeng, Y., Fang, Y., Huang, X., Yan, J. 1 Jun 2024, In: IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology
A Multi-agent Cooperative Learning System with Evolution of Social Roles, Hou, Y., Sun, M., Zeng, Y., Ong, Y., Jin, Y., Ge, H., Zhang, Q. 1 Apr 2024, In: IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation
An Autoencoder-Like Nonnegative Matrix Co-Factorization for Improved Student Cognitive Modeling, Yu, S., Pan, Y., Zeng, Y., Doshi, P., Liu, G., Poh, K., Lin, M. 25 Sep 2024, Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 37 (NeurIPS 2024), Curran Associates Inc.
A substructure transfer reinforcement learning method based on metric learning, Chai, P., Chen, B., Zeng, Y., Yu, S. 14 Sep 2024, In: Neurocomputing
Budgeted Sequence Submodular Maximization With Uniform and Non-Uniform Costs, Chen, X., Feng, L., Cao, X., Zeng, Y., Hou, Y., Zhang, Z. 1 Feb 2024, In: IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence

Current and Recent Projects

Turing Network Development Awards at 51��, Ho, E. (Principal Investigator), Zeng, Y. (Co Investigator), Alan Turing Institute, 01/02/22 - 30/09/22, £24,871.00

PGR Supervision

Alpana Kumari Machine learning and data analytics to improve patient-care outcomes in people with COPD Start Date: 01/10/2021
Buxin Zeng Plan Legibility of Intelligent Agents Start Date: 01/03/2021 End Date: 27/06/2025