Past Students

This is a list of students I have worked closely with on research, students who have worked on my project ideas in recent years, and past students whose project work was sufficiently significant to be worthy of mention now.

Research

    • Jan Drugowitch, Ph.D. student, 2003-2007

    • Jacob Hurst, Learning Classifier Systems in Robotic Environments, 2002 (Ph.D., Second supervisor; First supervisor: Dr Larry Bull, UWE)

    • Eliot Picken, Lead TCS Programme No. 2597 with Motorola, Network Fault Diagnosis using Case Based Reasoning, 1999-2001

    • Shaun Saxon, TCS Programme No 2391 with The Database Group, Data Mining for Direct Marketing using Genetic Algorithms, 1998-2000

MSc Projects (2002-2003, no records kept otherwise)

    • 2003

        • Andrew Shi, Grammatical Evolution.

        • Hugo Dalrymple-Smith, Simulating Lion Hunting Behaviour.

    • 2002

        • Rebecca Griffith, A Java Implementation of Grammatical Evolution.

Undergraduate Projects (-2005, no earlier records kept)

    • 2004/5

        • Mark Brooks, Neural Modelling of a Jellyfish

        • Ho Man Cheung, Automated collation of research material from Web Pages

        • Andrew Hayward, Simulation of Wolf Predator Behaviour

        • Rupert Jabelman, Automated gathering of research materials

        • Tom Longridge, Re-implementation of XCS using Python

        • James Pickett, A OO framework for Steering Behaviour integration

    • 2003/4

        • Benjamin Hamblin, Identifying the possibilities for desktop interaction with stereoscopic 3D vision

        • Jackie Jacobs, Investigating the Use of Simulated Chemicals within a Machine Learning system

        • Ketan Shah, Developing a Scalable Three-tier Student Record System using J2EE

        • Anne Stacey, Applying Accuracy within a Pittsburgh Learning Classifier System

        • Nutwoot Wootinunsulasit, A Personal Tutor support system using J2EE

        • Ian Carvell, Investigating the Use of Simulated Chemicals within a Machine Learning system

    • 2002/3

        • Andrew Lam, Investigating Communication within Predatory Behaviour

        • Peter Brooks, Investigating Communication within Predatory Behaviour using a Mathematical Model

        • Matthew Price, Applying Grammatical Evolution within a Pittsburgh LCS

        • Christopher Lavendar, Bacterial Strain Identification

        • Nicholas Bogaerts, DNA Sequence Similarity

        • Mark Thorpe, Processing, Transformation and Visualisation of DNA sequence data

Previous notable projects

    • Gary Buckley, Arena Football: Reinforcement Learning and Neural Networks in a Non-Deterministic Environment, Undergraduate Project Dissertation, UWE Bristol, 1996

    • Wayne Armstrong, A Language Model for Distributed Processing, Undergraduate Project Dissertation, UWE Bristol, 1994

    • Ian Kennedy, A-Life and the Agent Network Architecture, Undergraduate Project Dissertation, UWE Bristol, 1993

    • Larry Bull, A Pittsburgh LCS for Trail Following, 1992

    • Anne Balaj, Coorperation in Agents, MSc Dissertation, UWE Bristol, 1988