My research interests fall into two categories: the science of teaching and agent-based modelling of human behaviour, from detailed cognitive modelling of individuals (as in my PhD, awarded by the University of Melbourne 2012) through to large scale social simulation (where the focus is on the emergent properties of society, rather than any individual within it). I have a particular interest in modelling social intelligence, both as a means of enhancing models of human behaviour and as a mechanism to improve human-computer and human-robot interfaces. Please see my Google Scholar page for a full list of my publications.

I am a member of the Multi-Agent-Based Simulation (MABS) steering committee - a workshop series that has been running since 1998 and have co-chaired the workshop four times. I was publications chair for the Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS) 2017 conference, and have served on the programme committee of this conference series for many years.