Amanda Prorok

Prof Amanda Prorok is Professor of Collective Intelligence and Robotics in the Department of Computer Science and Technology at the University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of Pembroke College. Her research focuses on multi-agent systems, particularly the algorithmic coordination of robot collectives to solve complex real-world problems. She has pioneered differentiable communication methods for multi-agent systems, with applications to multi-robot perception and control. Prorok has given invited keynotes at TEDx and ICRA, and has received numerous research awards, including a prestigious ERC Grant. She is an IEEE Senior Member and serves as a Senior Editor for IEEE Transactions on Robotics. Her PhD thesis was awarded the Asea Brown Boveri (ABB) prize for the best thesis at EPFL in Computer Science.

Amanda Prorok is a Professor of Collective Intelligence and Robotics at the University of Cambridge, specializing in Robotics and Computer Science. Her research focuses on developing advanced algorithms for multi-robot systems, emphasizing decentralized decision-making, path planning, and resilient coordination. She explores the use of graph neural networks, reinforcement learning, and multi-agent systems to enhance the performance of autonomous robot teams in dynamic and complex environments. Her work addresses challenges such as communication, localization, and control in large-scale robotic systems, with applications in cooperative driving, swarm robotics, and multi-robot path deconfliction.