Doctoral Students
Updated
October
2008.
Current Doctoral Students:
Allister Furey
CCNR
webpage Personal website
Developing evolved neural network controllers for tethered wing control.
Bill Bigge
CCNR
webpage Personal
website
Part-time doctoral student, also part-time robot lab technical support.
Developing compliant actuators for robotic limbs and passive dynamic
systems. The programmable spring.
Fernando Almeida e Costa
CCNR
webpage Personal
website
The role of morphologies and morphodynamics in cognitive activity.
Greg Studer
CCNR
webpage Personal
website
Artificial
Life, with a particular focus of scale transitions through
self-organization.
James Dyke
CCNR
webpage Personal
website
Homeostasis, Daisyworld and the Gaia hypothesis. Maximum Entropy
Production
Nathaniel Virgo
CCNR
webpage
Modelling evolution as a dynamic interaction of species.
Oliver Winks
Jointly supervised by Luc Berthouse (main supervisor) and myself.
Relationships between development and evolution.
Paul Chorley
Main supervisor is Anil Seth. I am 2nd supervisor.
Biologically realistic neural mechanisms in situated and embodies
robotics.
Marcos Rosetti
Now (since Oct 2008) jointly supervised by Phil Husbands and myself.
Analysing and modelling search behaviour in humans.
David Vardanjan
(registered for MPhil)
Adaptive navigation strategies for sailing boats, coping with weather
conditions varying from those initially predicted.
Doctoral
Theses submitted, awaiting examination
Eduardo Izquierdo-Torres
CCNR
webpage Personal
website
The artificial evolution of learning behaviour: an Embodied, Situated
and Dynamical Systems Approach
2008:
doctoral thesis submitted, awaiting examination
Simon MacGregor
CCNR
webpage
The application of biologically inspired strategies to learning in
structured domains such as mathematics.
2008:
doctoral thesis submitted, awaiting examination
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.
Doctoral thesis submitted October 2006. Passed at viva, subject to
minor corrections, 11 April 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
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.
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