This area focuses on autonomous agents capable of goal-driven reasoning, planning, and decision-making. Research emphasizes cognitive autonomy—including task decomposition, tool use, and strategic adaptation—alongside multi-agent coordination, economic frameworks, and applications such as open-claw manipulation and decentralized system management.

Members

Lingjie DUAN

Professor

Gareth John TYSON

Associate Professor

Jiadong YU

Assistant Professor

Zhenyi YUAN

Associate Professor

Projects

2024

通过数据驱动决策改进 IETF 协议标准化

广州市科技局

2023

广东省通感算交叉融合泛在物联网重点实验室

Firm: 广东省科技厅

Time: 2023 -

Publications

The Emergence of Threads: The Birth of a New Social Network

16th International Conference on Social Networks Analysis and Mining, ASONAM 2024, ita,Rende, 10.1007/978-3-031-78548-1_7 Zhang, Peixian; He, Yupeng; Haq, Ehsan-Ul; He, Jiahui; Tyson, Gareth

Unpacking the Layers: Exploring Self-Disclosure Norms, Engagement Dynamics, and Privacy Implications

34th ACM Web Conference, WWW Companion 2025, aus,Sydney,Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre, 10.1145/3701716.3717740 Haq, Ehsan-Ul; Jangra, Shalini; De, Suparna; Sastry, Nishanth; Tyson, Gareth

Exploring the Capability of ChatGPT to Reproduce Human Labels for Social Computing Tasks

16th International Conference on Social Networks Analysis and Mining, ASONAM 2024, ita,Rende, 10.1007/978-3-031-78548-1_2 Zhu, Yiming; Zhang, Peixian; Haq, Ehsan-Ul; Hui, Pan; Tyson, Gareth

Safety in DRL-Based Congestion Control: A Framework Empowered by Expert Refinement

IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON NETWORKING, 10.1109/TON.2025.3580436 Zhou, Jianer; Pan, Zhiyuan; Li, Zhenyu; Tyson, Gareth; Li, Weichao; Qiu, Xinyi; Pan, Heng; Zhang, Xinyi; Xie, Gaogang

Contrastive Domain Adaptation with Test-Time Training for Out-of-Context News Detection

PATTERN RECOGNITION, 164, 10.1016/j.patcog.2025.111530 Gu, Yimeng; Zhang, Mengqi; Castro, Ignacio; Wu, Shu; Tyson, Gareth

From Limited Resources to Powerful Insights: Empowering Low-Cost Cameras for Efficient Retrospective Querying

IEEE INTERNET OF THINGS JOURNAL, 12, 3, 10.1109/JIOT.2024.3480089, 2825-2837 Wen, Qiaodi; Zhou, Jianer; Chen, Ruitao; Luo, Ziqi; Tyson, Gareth; Li, Weichao; Wang, Jinfan; Pan, Heng; Xu, Zhiwei

Virtual Stars, Real Fans: Understanding the VTuber Ecosystem

34th ACM Web Conference, WWW 2025, aus,Sydney,Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre, 10.1145/3696410.3714803 Wei, Yiluo; Tyson, Gareth

Energy-Latency Aware Intelligent Reflecting Surface Aided Multi-Cell Mobile Edge Computing

IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON GREEN COMMUNICATIONS AND NETWORKING, 8, 1, 10.1109/TGCN.2023.3330247, 362-374 Xu, Wenhan; Yu, Jiadong; Wu, Yuan; Tsang, Danny H. K.

Joint Channel Estimation and Reinforcement-Learning-Based Resource Allocation of Intelligent-Reflecting-Surface-Aided Multicell Mobile Edge Computing

IEEE INTERNET OF THINGS JOURNAL, 11, 7, 10.1109/JIOT.2023.3334286, 11862-11875 Xu, Wenhan; Yu, Jiadong; Wu, Yuan; Tsang, Danny Hin-Kwok

Energy-Efficient Decentralized Federated Learning for UAV Swarm With Spiking Neural Networks and Leader Election Mechanism

IEEE WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS LETTERS, 13, 10, 10.1109/LWC.2024.3443295, 2742-2746 Shang, Chen; Hoang, Dinh Thai; Hao, Min; Niyato, Dusit; Yu, Jiadong