Inaugural Professorial Lecture – Professor Tony Savarimuthu

Code and connections: Creating socially-aware software ecosystems

About Professor Savarimuthu's research:

Tony conducts research in multi-agent systems (a branch of artificial intelligence) and software engineering.

In multi-agent systems, he is passionate about creating ‘socially aware’ software (e.g., those used in robots), that can learn human concepts such as social norms, trust and reputation, and apply them when interacting with other humans or artificial agents. Such futuristic software can enable collaboration and cooperation between interacting entities.

In software engineering, he studies the socialness of the software development process. His research has focused on analysing social networks of developers to understand behavioural patterns, unearthing decision-making processes from large software repositories, and extracting insights from app review data.

He has also led projects on the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) for social good such as crime mapping based on newspaper data, offensive language detection and reduction in online communities, preventing the generation of useless data, and tackling energy poverty.

Tony is the director of the Software Engineering programme and the coordinator of the Business Analytics minor.

This lecture will be followed with light refreshments, tea, coffee and juice.