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past PhD research students
- Jennifer Owen Evolutionary Swarm Robotics
Feb 2009 - Jan 2013 CoSMoS project
EPSRC award co-supervised with Jon Timmis and Alan Winfield
- Adam Nellis
Oct 2008 - Sept 2012
Plazzmid project EPSRC award
- Tim Hoverd
Oct 2007 - Sept 2011
CoSMoS project Microsoft Research award
- Adam Faulconbridge
Oct 2007 - Sept 2011 BBSRC
award co-supervised with Leo Caves and Julian Miller
- Philip Garnett
Oct 2006 - Sept 2010
BBSRC/Microsoft Research 4yr CASE award co-supervised with
Ottoline Leyser
- Ed Powley
Oct 2006 - Sep 2009 EPSRC
DTA award
- Gemma Danks
Oct 2005 - Oct 2008 BBSRC
award co-supervised with Leo Caves
- Joss Wright
Oct 2003 - Nov 2007
- Kester Clegg
Oct 2003 (part time) / Apr 2005
(full time) - Mar 2008 EPSRC/Microsoft Research CASE award
- Heather Turner
Oct 2003 - Nov 2007
EPSRC/BAE Systems CASE award
- Nuno Amálio
Oct 2002 - Aug 2006
Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology co-supervised with Fiona Polack
- Paul Massey
Oct 2000 - Mar 2006 (part time)
co-supervised with John Clark
- Howard Chivers
Apr 2003 - Feb 2006 Royal
Academy of Engineering co-supervised with John Clark
past MSc research students
- Hong (Alex) Lin
Oct 2003 - Dec 2004
- Yang Liu
Apr 2003 - Apr 2004
co-supervised with John Clark
past project students
2011/12
- Matthew Thompson Growing a Bridge
[NC MSc]
- Bartosz Stolarczyk Evolving fractal proteins
[NC MSc]
- Michael Krotosky Eigenvalue Artificial Chemistry
[Computational Biology MRes]
2010/11
- Benjamin Russell Turing Machines and discrete
dynamical systems [MMath]
2009/10
- Joe Lee-Moyet Sexual Selection for evolving
diverse tradeoff strategies [NC MSc]
- Matthew Squire Computing with Coupled Dynamical
Systems [NC MSc]
- Richard Williams UML modelling of a biological
system [Computational Biology MRes]
- Raymond Birch Visualising Quantum Algorithms
using Hilbert Curves [MEng]
- George Dando Entropy of flocks v. swarms
[MEng]
- Chris Riley LSystems in pyCSP
[MEng]
2008/9
- Ali Afshar Dodson Breaking the Law in Sugarscape
[NC MSc]
- Elizabeth Palit Petri net versus UML activity
diagram models of biological networks [Computational
Biology MRes]
- Fiz Beltran Borja Evolving Iterated Function
Systems [BEng]
2007/8
- Andrew Payne Natural limitations of Genetic
Programming [NC MSc]
- Jennifer Owen Evolving complex Game of Life
patterns [NC MSc]
- Neil Reilly UML Ants [NC
MSc]
- Robert Weatheritt UML modelling of neurons
[Computational Biology MRes]
- Adam Nellis Self-Organising Critical Systems
with similar timescales [MMath]
- Darren Beaumont Optimising L-system
interpretations [MMath]
- Matt Ledger Optimal Snakes and Ladders
[MEng]
2006/7
- Matt Hill Complexity of Swarms
[Natural Computation MSc]
- Adam Faulconbridge Evolving L-Peach
[BioInformatics MRes]
- Tanya Pawson UML modelling of cancer cells
[BioInformatics MRes]
- Lily Dey Mandelbroids and Julioids
[MMath]
- Gareth Haigh Memoisation of Life
[BEng]
- Georgina Porter A Method for Porting parallel
algorithms for the DAP to Handel-C [MEng]
2005/6
- Satpal Chagar L-System biomorphs
[BioInformatics MRes]
- Michael Houston Instrumenting and Visualising
Handel-C programs [MEng]
- Nick Owens Beyond Life on a Penrose Grid
[MEng]
- Ed Jackson An agent simulation of Blood clotting
[MEng]
- Jim Whitson Evolving flocking behaviours to
perform specified tasks [BEng]
2004/5
- Michelle Almeida IFS implementation
[SWE MSc]
- Byron Thomas Differential attacks on partially
evaluated crypto algorithms
- John Newborough FPGA implementation of
population-based search
- Ed Powley Parallel lexing with Handel-C/FPGAs
- James Hayes Characterising Flocking
- Andrew Weeks Searching with Chemistry
2003/4
- QuiDD-optimised quantum algorithms
- Iain Brown Quantum entangled basis states
- Margaret Hill The Game of Life in a Small World
- Pete Worth Growing music
- Jemima Rossmorris On-screen navigation
- Will Davis Nanotech Simulator