Machine Intelligence Lab

Welcome to the website of the Machine Intelligence Lab at the Department of Computer Science at University College London (UCL). We are part of the UCL Centre for Artificial Intelligence and the Intelligent Systems Group.

PhD Studentship Opportunities

We are offering PhD projects as part of the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Cyber-Physical Risk. If you are interested, please check the webpage and feel free to contact me if you would like to discuss the opportunities and the application process (please search for projects with Mirco Musolesi as the first supervisor). Please note that these studentships are available only to UK home students. Eligibility criteria can be found here.

Recent News

  • September 2026 New preprint: “Framing the Narrative: Ideological Mimicry in Large Language Models”. You can download the paper here.

  • September 2026 New preprint: “ContextAdapt: Evaluating Contextual Adaptation and Value Alignment in LLMs”. You can download the paper here.

  • September 2026 Our paper “Emergent Semantic Role Understanding in Language Models” has been accepted at NeurIPS’26. The camera ready version of the paper will appear soon. In the meantime, you can download the preprint here.

  • August 2026 New preprint: “The Relationship Between Professional and General Ethics in Generative AI”. You can download the paper here.

  • August 2026 New preprint: “The Role of Network Topology and Opponent Information in Shaping Cooperation in Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning Systems”. You can download the paper here.

  • August 2026 New preprint: “The Limits of Automatic Evaluation of Creativity in Large Language Models”. You can download the paper here.

  • June 2026 Our paper “TERC: A Transfer Entropy Redundancy Criterion for State Variable Selection in Reinforcement Learning” has been accepted in Transactions on Machine Learning Research. You can download the paper here.

  • June 2026 New preprint: “On Distributional Reinforcement Learning in Chaotic Dynamical Systems’’. You can download the paper here.

  • May 2026 Our paper “An Agent-Centric Dynamical Systems Perspective on Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning” has been accepted in the main track of the 3rd Reinforcement Learning Conference (RLC 2026). The camera ready version of the paper will appear soon. In the meantime, you can download the paper here.

Previous news items can be found here.

Joining and Collaborating with the Lab

The lab welcomes applications from prospective PhD students, postdoctoral researchers, research interns, and visiting scholars.

We are open to collaboration with academic, industry and government partners in our areas of expertise.

More details can be found here.



Last updated: 2 October 2026.