Dr Peta Masters

Peta Masters is a computer scientist with a background in theatre. She gained her doctorate at RMIT in Melbourne with a thesis on goal recognition and deception in path-planning and her first paper, with supervisor Sebastian Sardina, won the Pragnesh Jay Modi Best Student Paper Award at AAMAS17.

She worked on Deceptive AI at the University of Melbourne with Liz Sonenberg and a multi-disciplinary team under the direction of Wally Smith, a psychologist and amateur magician, and is currently a researcher with the Trustworthy Autonomous Systems (TAS) Hub at King’s College London where she is PI for the TAS Benchmarks Library and Critical Review.

Research interests

• Trust
• Deception
• Goal recognition

More information

• ORCID
• Google scholar