Core Faculty and Research Staff

• Epaminondas Kapetanios
  Research Interests: cognitive and semantic computing, explainable data-driven AI.

• Manal Helal
  Research Interests: Network Models, Complex Systems, Tensor Multi-way Analysis

• Michael Schmuker
  Research Interests: Neuromorphic Computing, Olfaction (in animals and machines), Chemical Fragrance Space, Smart Agriculture

• Na Helian
  Research Interests: machine learning, cloud computing

• Olga Tveretina
  Research Interests: verification of hybrid systems, propositional proof complexity​, dynamical systems

• Rene te Boekhorst
  Research Interests: bioinformatics, embodied artificial intelligence, biology, dynamical systems, primate social dynamics

• Rod Adams (Emeritus Professor)
  Research Interests: hierarchical clusterers, genetic algorithms, developmental neural networks, evolutionary neural networks, biological models

• Shabnam Kadir
  Research Interests: computational neuroscience, auditory neuroscience, bioinformatics, topological data analysis

• Volker Steuber
  Research Interests: biocomputation, computational neuroscience, systems biology, machine learning

• Yi Sun
  Research Interests: probabilistic modelling of data, unsupervised learning, model selection

Research Fellows

• Damien Drix
  Research Interests: neuroscience, dendritic computation, neuromorphic hardware

• Maria Psarrou
  Research Interests: Network modelling of neuronal circuits, neuronal computations and their determinants, data analytics

• Mohammad Tayaraninajaran
  Research Interests: optimisation algorithms, machine learning

• Reinoud Maex
  Research Interests: cerebellar computation, modelling drug addiction

• Ritesh Kumar
  Research Interests: olfaction, machine learning

• Sam Sutton
  Research Interests: machine learning, image processing, olfaction

Visiting Professors

• Chrystopher Nehaniv
  University of Waterloo, Canada
  Research Interests: algebraic biology, constructive biology, evolution, mathematical methods for systems biology, genetic regulatory networks, cognitive and computational neuroscience

• Jim Bower
  Research Interests: computations in the cerebellum and olfactory system, simulator development, educational technology

Visiting Research Fellows

• Christoph Metzner
  Research Interests: computational neuroscience, olfaction

• Edward Wakelam (with Technology Supported Learning)
  Research Interests: artificial intelligence and technology supported learning

• Maria Schilstra
  Research Interests: biocomputation, systems biology, genetic regulatory networks

• Paolo Dini
  Research Interests: algebraic biology (BIOMICS)

• Simon O'Connor
  Research Interests: information processing in the olfactory system

PhD Students

• Agnes Bonivart
  Research Interests: functional systems biology

• Bente Riegler (with Adaptive Systems)
  Research Interests: information theory, motor control

• Chama Bensmail
  Research Interests: computational neuroscience, simulated agents, evolutionary systems

• David Haydock
  Research Interests: Computational Neuroscience, Cognitive Neuroscience, EEG and fMRI analysis

• Deepak Panday
  Research Interests: machine learning

• Emil Dmitruk
  Research Interests: computational homology, neural coding, and sensory systems.

• Harpreet Singh
  Research Interests: machine learning, sentiment analysis

• Julia Goncharenko
  Research Interests: dynamics of thalamo-cortical networks

• Mahsa Aliakbarzadeh
  Research Interests: cerebellar computation, robotics and medical applications

• Marco Craveiro
  Research Interests: computational modelling, computational neuroscience

• Minghua Zheng
  Research Interests: Cloud computing, computer vision and deep learning

• Mohammad Yaqoob
  Research Interests: computational neuroscience, machine learning, and temporal pattern recognition

• Muhammad Umer
  Research Interests: machine learning, text analysis

• Nik Dennler
  Research Interests: Neuromorphic Olfaction

• Ohki Katakura
  Research Interests: computational neuroscience, cerebellar computation, motor learning

• Paul Moggridge
  Research Interests: artificial intelligence and cloud computing

• Rebecca Miko
  Research Interests: computational neuroscience, robotics and olfaction

• Sam Sutton
  Research Interests: machine learning, image processing, olfaction

• Shadiya Alingal Meethal (with Adaptive Systems)
  Research Interests: rehabilitation robotics, EEG and EMG analysis

• Simon McCool
  Research Interests: machine learning, autonomous vehicles

• Udeshika Dissanayake (with Adaptive Systems)
  Research Interests: EEG analysis and rehabilitation robotics

• Wajih ul Islam
  Research Interests: machine learning and image processing

Affiliated Faculty

• Amanda Jefferies
  Research Interests: technology supported learning

• Chris Stopford
  Research Interests: light scattering and radiative processes

• Daniel Polani
  Research Interests: artificial intelligence, artificial life, information theory for intelligent information processing, sensor evolution, collective and multi-agent systems

• Farshid Amirabdollahian
  Research Interests: human-robot interaction, adaptive systems

• James Geach
  Research Interests: evolution of galaxies, with a special emphasis on obscured activity, the role of environment, and the properties and evolution of cold gas in and around galaxies

• Lola Cañamero
  Research Interests: motivation and emotion modelling for autonomous and social agents, neural controllers

• Nada Yousif
  Research Interests: computational neuroscience, movement disorders, neurostimulation

• Peter Lane
  Research Interests: neural computation, natural language processing, cognitive science, image processing

• Ray Frank
  Research Interests: neural computation, cognitive science, evolutionary neural networks, developmental neural networks

• William Clocksin
  Research Interests: machine learning, optical character recognition, autonomous vehicles

Artists in Residence

• Alex May
  

• Anna Dumitriu
  

Previous Group Members

• Ahmed Otman Abdelmotaleb (with University of Poznan)
  Research Interests: evolution of spiking neural networks

• Alex Metaxas
  Research Interests: associative memory

• Alexander Hocking
  Research Interests: machine learning and astronomy

• Alistair Rust
  European Bioinformatics Institute, Cambridge, UK
  Research Interests: evolutionary neural networks, biological development, artificial evolution, vision, computational neuroscience

• Andrew Finney
  Developer at ANSYS, Inc.

• Angela Thurnham
  Tilda Goldberg Centre for Social Work and Social Care, UK
  Research Interests: Schizophrenia and Connectionist Models

• Ankur Sinha
  Research Interests: cortical reorganisation and memory performance after lesions

• Anuradha Sulane
  Research Interests: machine learning, neural networks and audio recognition

• Aruna Shenoy
  Adaptive Systems Group, University of Hertfordshire
  Research Interests: The computational analysis of facial expression

• Azeemsha Poyil (with Adaptive Systems)
  Research Interests: rehabilitation robotics

• Benjamin Torben-Nielsen
  Research Interests: dendritic morphology and computation

• Burak Erdeniz
  University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
  Research Interests: cognitive Neuroscience, FMRI

• Cosme Llerena
  Research Interests: signal processing, data analysis, sound applications, machine learning

• David Bowes
  Lancaster University, UK
  Research Interests: machine learning, software defect prediction

• David Gray
  Visiting Lecturer, University of Hertfordshire
  Research Interests: machine learning, software defect prediction

• Dimitris Bampasakis
  Research Interests: computations performed by cerebellar nucleus neurons

• Faisal Rezwan
  Computational Modelling Group, University of Southampton
  Research Interests: biocomputation, genetic regulatory networks

• Fiona Richardson
  Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, UCL, London, UK
  Research Interests: cognitive neuroscience, perception and action

• Giseli de Sousa
  Connectionism and Cognitive Science Lab, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil
  Research Interests: neuronal morphology

• Hamid Boulouri
  Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, USA
  Research Interests: biocomputation, computational systems biology

• Hünkar Can Tunç
  Research Interests: computational neuroscience, balanced asynchronous irregular networks

• Irina Abnizova
  Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute
  Research Interests: Biostatistics

• Jean Petrić
  Research Interests: machine learning and software defect prediction

• Joanne Matthews
  Developer at Rothamsted Research

• Johannes Luthman
  Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
  Research Interests: computational biology

• Karen Safaryan
  University of California Los Angeles, USA
  Research Interests: cerebellar network modelling, Spike train analysis

• Katja Wegner
  University of Karlsruhe, Germany
  Research Interests: biocomputation

• Ken Tabb
  Health and Human Sciences, University of Hertfordshire
  Research Interests: vision, snakes

• Kevin A. J. Doherty
  British Aerospace, UK
  Research Interests: competitive neural networks, hierarchical clustering, design patterns

• Kirsty Kidd
  Research Interests: evolutionary changes of neuronal morphologies

• Laurence Dixon
  Emeritus Professor
  Research Interests: optimisation, radial basis function networks, evolutionary neural networks, generalisation

• Mark McAuley

• Mark Robinson
  Benaroya Institute, Seattle, USA
  Research Interests: biocomputation

• Nathan Beka
  Research Interests: bioinformatics

• Neil Davey
  Open University, UK
  Research Interests: computational neuroscience, machine learning, artificial intelligence

• Nicolas Oros
  University of California Irvine, USA
  Research Interests: evolving Spiking Neural Controllers for Simulated Robots

• Parimala Alva
  Research Interests: neuronal mechanisms of epileptic activity

• Parivash Ashrafi
  Research Interests: machine learning and skin permeability of drugs

• Ronak Bhavsar
  Research Interests: machine learning and EEG analysis

• Sarah Keating
  Senior software developer at European Bioinformatics Institute, Hinxton, UK
  Research Interests: computational systems biology

• Shavika Rastogi
  Research Interests: computational neuroscience, neuromorphic cognition, brain inspired neuromorphic computing

• Sudhir Sharma (with Adaptive Systems)
  Research Interests: rehabilitation robotics

• Sylvia Beka
  Research Interests: bioinformatics

• Tamie Salter
  Que Innovations Lab, Canada
  Research Interests: Assistive Robotics

• Thiago Matos Pinto
  University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
  Research Interests: computational models of intracellular signalling cascades

• Wanida Pensuwon
  Khon Kaen University, Thailand
  Research Interests: cluster analysis, hierarchical classification, competitive learning neural networks, stochastic learning

• Weam Binjumah
  Research Interests: machine learning and optical data transmission

• Weiliang Chen
  Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Japan
  Research Interests: connectivity of the mammalian cortex, associative memory

• Wolfgang Marwan
  Max-Planck-Institut fuer Dynamik komplexer technischer Systeme, Madgeburg, Germany`_
  Research Interests: molecular network analysis

• Zaheed Mahmood
  Research Interests: machine learning and software defect prediction

• Zhengjun Pan
  Software Contractor at Anite; Director at TurboLab Ltd