Yaodong is a machine learning researcher, with both research experience in academia and industry leadership experience in finance and high-tech companies. Currently, he is an assistant professor at King's College London. His research is about reinforcement learning and multi-agent systems. He has maintained a track record of publications at top venues along with best paper awards at CoRL 2020 and AAMAS 2021 (blue sky track). Before KCL, he was a principal research scientist at Huawei UK where he headed the multi-agent system team in London, working on autonomous driving applications.