Mehdi Dastani

Mehdi Dastani is a professor of Artificial Intelligence and chair of the Intelligent Systems group of the department of Information and Computing Sciences at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. His research focuses on formal and computational models in artificial intelligence. Inspired by knowledge and insights from other scientific disciplines such as philosophy, psychology, economy and law, Dastani investigates and develops computer models for autonomous agents whose behaviors are decided based on reasoning about social and cognitive concepts such as knowledge, desires, norms, responsibility and emotions.