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.

What’s New

• August 2025 Our paper “Feature Selection for Network Intrusion Detection” will be presented in the Research Track of the 31st ACM Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (ACM SIGKDD 2025). You can download the paper here.

• May 2025 New preprint: “Reward Model Overoptimisation in Iterated RLHF”. You can download the paper here.

• May 2025 Congratulations to Liza Tennant for successfully defending her thesis on “Moral Alignment of Agentic AI Systems”!

• April 2025 Liza Tennant will present her work “Moral Alignment for LLM Agents” at 13th International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2025). 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: 14 August 2025.