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Core Faculty and Research Staff

• Rod Adams
  Research Interests: hierarchical clusterers, genetic algorithms, developmental neural networks, evolutionary neural networks, biological models
   
• Rene te Boekhorst
  Research Interests: bioinformatics, embodied artificial intelligence, biology, dynamical systems, primate social dynamics
   
• David Bowes
  Research Interests: event driven spiking neurons, embodied AI, epigenetics
   
• Lee Calcraft
  Research Interests: computational neuroscience, neural computation, associative memory, evolutionary neural networks
   
• William Clocksin
  Research Interests: machine learning, optical character recognition, autonomous vehicles
   
• Neil Davey
  Research Interests: computational neuroscience, machine learning, cognitive science, artificial intelligence
   
• Ray Frank
  Research Interests: neural computation, cognitive science, evolutionary neural networks, developmental neural networks
   
• Steve Hunt
  Research Interests: computational neuroscience, neural computation, cognitive science, associative memory, biological models
   
• Chrystopher Nehaniv
  Research Interests: algebraic biology, constructive biology, bioinformatics, evolution
   
• Maria Schilstra
  Research Interests: biocomputation, systems biology, genetic regulatory networks
   
• Volker Steuber
  Research Interests: biocomputation, computational neuroscience, systems biology
   

Affiliated Faculty and Research Staff

• Jean Baillie
  Research Interests: evolutionary computation
   
• Lola Canamero
  Research Interests: motivation and emotion modelling for autonomous and social agents, neural controllers
   
• Peter Lane
  Research Interests: neural computation, natural language processing, cognitive science, image processing
   
• Caroline Lyon
  Research Interests: neural computation, natural language processing, cognitive science, image processing and applications in analysis of SAR (radar) data
   
• Daniel Polani
  Research Interests: artificial intelligence, artificial life, information theory for intelligent information processing, sensor evolution, collective and multi-agent systems
   

Research Fellows

• Reinoud Maex
  Research Interests: computational neuroscience
   
• Yi Sun
  Research Interests: probabilistic modelling of data, unsupervised learning, model selection
   
• Paolo Dini
  Research Interests: algebraic biology
   

PhD Students

• Parimala Alva
  Research Interests: Computational implications of neuronal morphology
   
• Dimitris Bampasakis
  Research Interests: Computations performed by cerebellar nucleus neurons
   
• Sylvia Beka
  Research Interests: Bioinformatics
   
• Burak Erdeniz
  Research Interests: Cognitive Neuroscience, Computational Modelling
   
• David Gray
  Research Interests: Machine learning, software defect prediction
   
• Kirsty Kidd
  Research Interests: Degradation of neural network performance during ageing
   
• Alex Metaxas
  Research Interests: Associative memory
   
• Thiago Matos Pinto
  Research Interests: Computational models of intracellular signalling cascades
   
• Faisal Rezwan
  Research Interests: Biocomputation, genetic regulatory networks
   
• Karen Safaryan
  Research Interests: Cerebellar network modelling
   

Visiting Research Fellows

• Giseli de Sousa
  Connectionism and Cognitive Science Lab, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil
  Research Interests: Neuronal morphology
   
• Weiliang Chen
  Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Japan
  Research Interests: Connectivity of the mammalian cortex, associative memory
   
• Kevin A. J. Doherty
  British Aerospace, UK
  Research Interests: competitive neural networks, hierarchical clustering, design patterns
   
• Sarah Keating
  European Bioinformatics Institute, Cambridge, UK
  Research Interests: biocomputation, SBML
   
• Nicolas Oros
  University of California Irvine, USA
  Research Interests: Evolving Spiking Neural Controllers for Simulated Robots
   
• Wanida Pensuwon
  Khon Kaen University, Thailand
  Research Interests: cluster analysis, hierarchical classification, competitive learning neural networks, stochastic learning
   
• Fiona Richardson
  Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, UCL, London, UK
  Research Interests: cognitive neuroscience, perception and action
   
• Mark Robinson
  Benaroya Institute, Seattle, USA
  Research Interests: Biocomputation
   
• Alistair Rust
  European Bioinformatics Institute, Cambridge, UK
  Research Interests: evolutionary neural networks, biological development, artificial evolution, vision, computational neuroscience
   
• Aruna Shenoy
  Adaptive Systems Group, University of Hertfordshire
  Research Interests: The computational analysis of facial expression
   
• Ken Tabb
  Health and Human Sciences, University of Hertfordshire
  Research Interests: vision, snakes
   
• Katja Wegner
  University of Karlsruhe, Germany
  Research Interests: biocomputation
   

Previous Group Members

• Irina Abnizova
  Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute
  Research Interests:Biostatistics
   
• Hamid Boulouri
  Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, USA
  Research Interests: biocomputation, computational systems biology
   
• Laurence Dixon
  Emeritus Professor
  Research Interests: optimisation, radial basis function networks, evolutionary neural networks, generalisation
   
• Andrew Finney
  Developer at ANSYS, Inc.
   
• Joanne Matthews
  Developer at Rothamsted Research
   
• Sarah Keating
  Senior software developer at European Bioinformatics Institute, Hinxton, UK
  Research Interests:computational systems biology
   
• Mark McAuley
   
• Wolfgang Marwan
  Max-Planck-Institut fuer Dynamik komplexer technischer Systeme, Madgeburg, Germany
  Research Interests: molecular network analysis
   
• Tamie Salter
  Que Innovations Lab, Canada
  Research Interests: Assistive Robotics
   
• Angela Thurnham
  Tilda Goldberg Centre for Social Work and Social Care, UK
  Research Interests: Schizophrenia and Connectionist Models
   
• Zhengjun Pan
  Software Contractor at Anite; Director at TurboLab Ltd
   

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