Doctoral Students
Updated Feb
2011.
Current Doctoral Students:
Nicholas Tomko
Personal website
(1) Incremental evolution studies (2) Metagenomics (3) Thermodynamics
and MEPP.
[Research started: Oct 2009]
From 2011, acting as an External Supervisor, with Andy Philipiddes as
Internal Supervisor..
Completed doctoral
theses
Ibrahim Kuscu
Evolutionary
generalisation and genetic programming (1999)
I supervised the last year of his doctoral work.
Gabriela Ochoa
Error thresholds and optimal
mutation rates in genetic
algorithms (2001)
Lionel Barnett
Evolutionary search on
fitness landscapes with neutral
networks (2003)
Available as softback printed copy from www.lulu.com/theoldinn or as
a free download (3.1Mb) from tinyurl.com/zwyrx
Elio Tuci
An exploration on the
evolution of learning behaviour using
robot based models (2004)
Rainer Hilscher
Agent based models of
competitive speciation (2005)
Available as softback printed copy from www.lulu.com/theoldinn or as
a free download (6.2Mb) from tinyurl.com/y7wpvk
Ka Yin Caroline Ong
Philosophical Robotics (2006)
Available as softback printed copy from www.lulu.com/theoldinn or as
a free download (2.1Mb) from tinyurl.com/qsl39
Alex Penn
CCNR
webpage Personal
website
Ecosystem Selection: Simulation,
Experiment
and Theory (2006).
Rachel Wood
CCNR
webpage
Jointly supervised by myself and Ezequiel di Paolo.
Small but perfectly formed:
evolutionary robotics models of 'minimal' developmental systems.
(2007)
Eric Vaughan
CCNR
webpage Personal website,
www.droidlogic.com
Jointly supervised by myself and Ezequiel di Paolo.
Adding power and control to Passive
Dynamic Walking. Development of a
bipedal humanoid.
Link to DPhil thesis as first submitted 29 Oct 2007:-
http://www.informatics.sussex.ac.uk/users/ev25/projects/PHD/main/main.pdf
Eduardo Izquierdo-Torres
CCNR
webpage Personal
website
The artificial evolution of learning behaviour: an Embodied, Situated
and Dynamical Systems Approach (2008)
Simon MacGregor
CCNR
webpage
The application of biologically inspired strategies to learning in
structured domains such as mathematics. (2009)
James Dyke
CCNR
webpage Personal
website
Homeostasis, Daisyworld and the Gaia hypothesis. Maximum Entropy
Production (2009)
Bill
Bigge
CCNR
webpage Personal
website
The programmable spring: Towards physical emulators of mechanical
systems. (2010)
Marcos Rosetti
Since Oct 2008, jointly supervised by Phil Husbands and myself..
Analysing and modelling search behaviour in humans.(2010)
Allister Furey
CCNR
webpage Personal website
Developing evolved neural network controllers for tethered wing control.
[Thesis submitted: Jan 2011. Awaiting examination]
Greg Studer
CCNR
webpage Personal
website
Computing multi-scale organizations through assembly (2010)
Nathaniel Virgo
CCNR
webpage
Thermodynamics and the Structure of Living Systems (2010)
Matthew Egbert
Personal website
Supervised from Jan 2010, formerly Ezequiel Di Paolo main supervisor
Adaptation from Interactions between Metabolism and Behaviour. An
Exploration on the Computational Chemo-ethology of Abstract Protocells.
[Thesis submitted: Dec 2010. Awaiting examination]
Intermitting without
completion of thesis
Sampsa Sojakka
CCNR
webpage Personal
website
Jointly supervised by myself and Ezequiel di Paolo.
Models and algorithms of neural structures capable of incremental
evolution through the acquisition of dynamics required to maintain
stability in changing environments.
Fernando Almeida e Costa
CCNR
webpage Personal
website
The role of morphologies and morphodynamics in cognitive activity.
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