AI in our Urban Environments

As the rate of urbanisation and technology adoption increases, our urban environments are becoming rapidly inter-connected and embedded with intelligent agents.  Such agents can sense their surroundings, learn from the ever-growing data as a result of such interactions, and proactively take decisions to optimise user defined objectives.  However, agents do not live in isolation, they interact with each other, resulting in a complex multi-agent ecosystem.

In this podcast, Assistant Professor Akshat Kumar from SMU’s School of Information Systems, who was named AI's 10 To Watch by IEEE Intelligent Systems Magazine in May 2018, shares his work on developing computational techniques that allow such complex ecosystem of autonomous agents to operate in a coordinated fashion.