DrWei Duan

Postdoctoral Research Associate

Australian Artifical Intelligence Institute

BIO

Dr Wei Duan is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Australian Artificial Intelligence Institute (AAII), Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology, University of Technology Sydney (UTS). Dr Duan received both his PhD and master's degree from UTS, completing his PhD in 2026.

 

His research focuses on multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL), graph neural networks (GNNs), graph-based coordination, and cooperative decision-making. His work particularly investigates adaptive coordination structures, group-level interactions, and uncertainty-aware communication in multi-agent systems, with applications in intelligent transportation and autonomous systems.

Dr Duan has published over 10 research papers in leading international journals and conferences, including NeurIPS, ICML, AAAI, IJCAI, AAMAS, IEEE TNNLS, and TMLR. He regularly serves as a reviewer for major AI conferences, including NeurIPS, AAAI, and IJCAI, and leading journals, including IEEE TPAMI, IEEE TNNLS, IEEE TCYB, Artificial Intelligence, Pattern Recognition, and Information Fusion.

UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY APPOINTMENTS

  • Postdoctoral Research Fellow
    University of Technology Sydney, Australian Artificial Intelligence Institute (AAII), Sydney, Australia2 Feb 2026 - present

DEGREES

  • MSc(Res)
    University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, Australia1 Sep 2020 - 2 Aug 2022
  • PhD
    University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, Australia2 Aug 2022 - 27 May 2026

PROFILE TYPE

  • Academic