Core Faculty and Research Staff

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

• Na Helian
  Research Interests: machine learning, cloud computing

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

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

• Yar Muhammad
  Research Interests: Brain Computer Interface (BCI) for health domain, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning

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

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

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

• Mohammad Tayaraninajaran
  Research Interests: optimisation algorithms, machine learning

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

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

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

Research Fellows

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

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

• Pinaki Saha
  Research Interests: Olfaction, Machine learning, Cheminformatics

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

• Tariq Hilmi
  Research Interests: Computational Neuroscience, Olfaction, Gas Plumes

• Caroline McMillan
  Research Interests: Soft robotics, neurotechnology, AI, biocomputing, digital media and multisensory design.

Visiting Professors

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

Visiting Research Fellows

• Paolo Dini
  Research Interests: algebraic biology (BIOMICS)

• Christoph Metzner
  Research Interests: computational neuroscience, olfaction

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

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

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

PhD Students

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

• Dileepa Joseph Jayamanne
  Research Interests: Deep Learning for Computer Vision in Biocomputation, Machine Learning for Video Analysis and Image Processing, Data Science for Pattern Discovery and Decision Support

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

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

• Eleonora Bernasconi
  Research Interests: Computational neuroscience

• Agnes Bonivart
  Research Interests: functional systems biology

• Marco Craveiro
  Research Interests: computational modelling, computational neuroscience

• Nik Dennler
  Research Interests: Neuromorphic Olfaction

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

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

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

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

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

• Simon McCool
  Research Interests: machine learning, autonomous vehicles

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

• Rupa Patel
  Research Interests: Big Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence (AI)

• Paul Moggridge
  Research Interests: artificial intelligence and cloud computing

• Shamim Ibne Shahid
  Research Interests: Computer Vision, Deep Learning, Affective Computing, Psychology

• Deepak Panday
  Research Interests: machine learning

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

• Harpreet Singh
  Research Interests: machine learning, sentiment analysis

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

• Muhammad Umer
  Research Interests: machine learning, text analysis

Affiliated Faculty

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

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

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

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

• 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

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

• Amanda Jefferies
  Research Interests: technology supported learning

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

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

• Chris Stopford
  Research Interests: light scattering and radiative processes

Artists in Residence

• Anna Dumitriu
  

• Alex May
  

Previous Group Members

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

• Irina Abnizova
  Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute
  Research Interests: Biostatistics

• Christopher Roadknight
  Research Interests: machine learning, artificial intelligence

• Parimala Alva
  Research Interests: neuronal mechanisms of epileptic activity

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

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

• Nathan Beka
  Research Interests: bioinformatics

• Sylvia Beka
  Research Interests: bioinformatics

• Ronak Bhavsar
  Research Interests: machine learning and EEG analysis

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

• Andrew Finney
  Developer at ANSYS, Inc.

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

• Alexander Hocking
  Research Interests: machine learning and astronomy

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

• Kirsty Kidd
  Research Interests: evolutionary changes of neuronal morphologies

• Ritesh Kumar
  Research Interests: olfaction, machine learning

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

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

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

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

• Joanne Matthews
  Developer at Rothamsted Research

• Mark McAuley

• Alex Metaxas
  Research Interests: associative memory

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

• 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

• 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

• 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

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

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