Ignazio Cabras
Management

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Regional growth and development, public sector management, employment issues, urban-rural dynamics, community cohesion and social capital, industry and innovation, knowledge economies and ICT.

Tel: +44 1904 325343   Email: ignazio.cabras@york.ac.uk   
Location: Ron Cooke Hub RCH/229

Leo Caves
Biology

Modelling & Simulation of Biosystems: simulation of complex biosystems.  Data Science: methods & tools for exploratory data analysis and visualisation for biosystems.

Tel: +44 1904 325335  Email: leo.caves@york.ac.uk
Publications: Google Scholar   
Location:  Ron Cooke Hub RCH/330

Howard Chivers
Computer Science
 

Tel: +44 1904 325386 Email: howard.chivers@york.ac.uk
Location: Ron Cooke Hub RCH/224 

John Clark 
Computer Science

Applications of non-standard computation to software engineering and security

Tel: +44 1904 325354  Email: jac@cs.york.ac.uk
Publications: Google Scholar  
Location:  Ron Cooke Hub RCH/232

Tim Clarke 
Electronics

Intelligent autonomous vehicles, industrial automation and flight control with common cross-linking strands in multi-agent systems, machine vision, bio-inspiration, novel hardware demonstrators and complexity.

Stephen Connor 
Mathematics

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Coupling and stochastic stability, and their application to perfect simulation.

Peter Cowling
Computer Science/Management

Models and heuristic search algorithms for decision making in games
and scheduling/routing/planning/optimisation, Operational
Research/Management Science, Monte Carlo Tree Search, Hyperheuristics

Tel: +44 1904 325355 Email: peter.cowling@york.ac.uk
Publications: Google Scholar
Location: Ron Cooke Hub RCH/230 

James Cussen
Computer Science

Machine learning, particularly focusing on graphical models and inductive logic programming: statistical relational learning or probabilistic inductive logic programming.

Tel: +44 1904 325371  Email: jc@cs.york.ac.uk
Publications:  Google Scholar
Location: Ron Cooke Hub RCH/326

Gustav Delius 
Mathematics

Symmetries in Dynamical Models of Evolution and Ecology, Stochastic Modelling, Quantum Field Theory, Integrable Systems, Quantum Groups.

John Forrester 
Stockholm Environment Institute

How different stakeholders such as citizens, policy actors, and experts perceive environmental social and ecological research science, and how it is communicated between them

Dan Franks 
Biology/Mathematics

Working on computational models of ecology and evolution: network analysis, animal social networks, predator-prey interactions. 

Tel: +44 1904 325342 Email: daniel.franks@york.ac.uk
Publications: Google Scholar 
Location: Ron Cooke Hub RCH/228 

Richard Law 
Biology

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Plant ecology, community dynamics and evolutionary ecology

Tel: +44 1904 325334  Email: richard.law@york.ac.uk
Publications: Google Scholar
Location:  Ron Cooke Hub RCH/327

Niall MacKay 
Mathematics

Mathematical physics (integrable models and quantum groups), applied mathematics (warfare modelling, scaling laws in biology and physics)

Julian Miller 
Electronics

Novel electronic and computational systems whose designs are motivated by biological principles of organisation and operation

Simon O'Keefe 
Computer Science

Study of neural networks and their application to a variety of problems

Jon Pitchford 
Biology/Mathematics

Individual-based models (IBMS) of growth, competition and foraging in marine and terrestrial systems; marine reserves and evolutionary fisheries management; evolution under uncertainty; plankton dynamics; terrestrial carbon dynamics in complex food webs; epidemiology; group movement; wind farms and dead birds

Fiona Polack 
Computer Science

Engineering nature-inspired systems, modelling, simulation, and validation of complex systems, modelling and metamodelling, software engineering, eg. for security, with formality, Formal and integrated software specification

Martin Robinson 
Electronics

Applying electromagnetic and radio frequency techniques to bio-medical problems; electromagnetic compatibility and shielding

Tel: +44 1904 322385  Email: martin.robinson@york.ac.uk  
Location: Physics/Electronics P/Z/014

Angelika Sebald 
Chemistry

Nuclear magnetice resonance - spin dynamics in spectroscopy and computation

Steve Smith 
Electronics

Evolutionary computation, particularly alternative representations and their application to image processing. Vision and image analysis for novel medical computing and rich media applications, such as video augmented environments

Susan Stepney 
Computer Science

Non-standard computation, complex adaptive systems, non-von Neumann architectures

Gianluca Tempesti 
Electronics

Bio-inspired digital hardware, built-in self-test and self-repair, programmable logic, and cellular automata

Jon Timmis 
Computer Science/Electronics

Natural computation, swarm robotics and computational immunology 

Tel: +44 1904 325361  Email: jtimmis@cs.york.ac.uk
Publications: Google Scholar  
Location: Ron Cooke Hub RCH/234

Mike Tse 
Management

Supply chain risk management in solving quality risk by using a large scale, empirical approach

Reidun Twarock 
Biology/Mathematics

Novel analytical and computational tools for the modelling of viruses

Andy Tyrrell 
Electronics

Design of biologically-inspired architectures, artificial immune systems, evolvable hardware, FPGA system design, fault tolerant design, and real-time systems

Harry Venables 
Management

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Development and application of ant colony optimisation techniques within the field of facility location, a branch of supply chain management 

Julie Wilson 
Chemistry/Mathematics

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Working on chemometrics, biostatistics and image analysis

Tel: +44 1904 325369
Email: julie.wilson@york.ac.uk
Publications: Google Scholar 
Location: Ron Cooke Hub RCH/324 

Jamie Wood 
Biology/Mathematics

Working on complexity and emergent phenomena in biologically inspired models

Peter Young 
Biology

Population genetics, molecular phylogeny and comparative genomics of rhizobia and other bacteria. Molecular ecology and diversity of mycorrhizal fungi. Bioinformatics and environmental genomics. Biologically-inspired computing

Giuliana Indelicato 
Mathematics

Marie Curie Research Fellow. Working on viral assembly

Tel: +44 1904 3255362
Email: giuliana.indelicato@york.ac.uk 
Location: Ron Cooke Hub RCH/320

Michael Lones 
Electronics

Evolutionary and bio-inspired computing methods and applications in biology and medicine 

Tel: +44 1904 322830
Email: michael.lones@york.ac.uk 
Location: Physics/Electronics P/M/10

Elva Robinson 
Biology

Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Fellow. Working on organisation of ant societies, specifically how the simple behavioural rules followed by individual ants interact to produce adaptive colony-level behaviours

Tel: +44 1904 3255338
Email: elva.robinson@york.ac.uk
Publications: Google Scholar 
Location: Ron Cooke Hub RCH/225

Martin Albrecht Trefzer 
Electronics 

Automatic Design of Adaptive Systems using Unconstrained Evolution and Development on a Hardware Platform

Tel: +44 1904 323324
Email: martin.trefzer@york.ac.uk 
Location: Physics/Electronics P/M/105

James Alfred Walker 
Electronics

Evolutionary Computation, especially Cartesian Genetic Programming (CGP), and its application to real-world problems 

Tel: +44 1904 322832
Email: james.walker@york.ac.uk 
Location: Physics/Electronics P/M/105

Paul Andrews 
Computer Science

Engineering of agent-based simulations of complex systems, applications to immunology and socio-technical systems

Tel: +44 1904 325374
Email: paul.andrews@york.ac.uk
Location: Ton cooke Hub RCH/333

Mark Bartlett 
Computer Science

Pedigree reconstruction from genetic data, using Bayesian networks and integer linear programming

Tel: +44 1904 325387
Email: mark.bartlett@cs.york.ac.uk 
Location: Ron Cooke Hub RCH/33

Eric Dykeman 
Biology

Dynamic properties of viruses

Tel: +44 1904 325366
Email: eric.dykeman@york.ac.uk 
Location: Ron Cooke Hub RCH/321

Simon Hickinbotham
Computer Science

Condition Monitoring on a Cloud" with Cybula Ltd and ACA Group

Tel: +44 1904 325334
Email: simion.hickinbotham@york.ac.uk
Location: Computer Science CSE/228

James Hilder 
Electronics

COCORO: Collective Cognitive Robots - EU FP7 funded project

Tel: +44 1904 323324
Email: james.hilder@york.ac.uk 
Location: Physics/Electronics P/M/105

Simon Poulding 

Computer Science

Tel: +44 1904 325165
Email: simon.poulding@york.ac.uk 
Location: Ron Cooke Hub RCH/333 

Edward Powley
Computer Science
 

Monte Carlo Tree Search for games with uncertainty and hidden information

Tel: +44 1904 325331

Email: edward.powley@york.ac.uk
Location: Ron Cooke Hub RCH/338 

Mark Read 
Electronics

COCORO: Collective Cognitive Robots - EU FP7 funded project

Tel: +44 1904 325333
Email: mnr101@ohm.york.ac.uk 
Location: Ron Cooke Hub RCH/334

Stewart Aitken

 

 Field Programmable Gate Arrays

Eman Aljohani

Informative priors for learning graphical models: Probablistic models use graphs to represent relations between variables

• Computer Science 2010 - 2013
• Supervised by Dr James Cussens

Phillip Buckham-Bonnett

Negative feedback mechanisms in ant foraging networks

• Biology 2011 - 2012
• MSc by Research supervised by Dr Elva Robinson

Mariella Canales

Size based dynamics of marine fish community off Northern Chile.  Empirical and modelling studies

• Biology 2009 - 2013
• Funded by the Chilean Government and supervised by Professor Richard Law

Yi-Huei Chen

The relationship between ant colony size and altitude

• Biology 2011 - 2014
• Supervised by Dr Elva Robinson

Zoe Cook

Organisation of ants within nests and polydomy

• Biology 2010 - 2013
• NERC funded and supervised by Dr Elva Robinson

Piero Conca

Adaptive fusion with Artificial Immune Systems

• Electronics 2009 - 2012
• Funding by NCR and supervised by Professor Jon Timmis and Dr. Rogerio De Lemos at the University of Kent

Gabriel Costa Silva

Supporting Portability and Interoperability in Cloud Computing

• Computer Science 2013 - 2016
• Supervised by Dr Louis Rose and Dr Radu Calinescu

Simon Croft

Collision avoidance of individuals travelling as a group

• Biology 2010 - 2013
• Supervised by Dr Jon Pitchford

Ali Afshar Dodson

Crime and punishment in agent based social systems

• Computer Science, Biology 2010 - 2014
• Supervised by Professor Susan Stepney and Dr Leo Caves

Stephanie Dyson
 

Using a systems biology and computational modelling approach to understand the immunology and complex biological system of the intestinal tract

• Computer Science, Biology 2012 - 2016
• Supervised by Professor Jon Timmis and Dr marika Kullberg

Sam Ellis

Mechanisms and consequences of polydomy in red wood ants

• Biology 2011 - 2014
• Supervised by Dr Elva Robinson

Luis Fuente

Albino: Artificial Biochemical Networks - Computational Models and architectures

• Electronics 2010 - 2014
• EPSRC funded and supervised by Professor Andy Tyrrell

Simos Gerasimou
 

Runtime Quantitative Verification of Self-Adaptive Artificial-Intelligence System

• Computer Science 2012 - 2016
• Supervised by Dr Radu Calinescu

James Geraets
 

Templated self-assembly of nanocontainers with applications in virology and drug delivery

• Biology and Physics 2011 - 2015
• Funding: Wellcome - Supervised by Profesor Reidun Twarock and Dr. Yvette Hancock

Bjorn Gerckens
 

Simulation modelling of mAb efficacy for the treatment of autoimmune disease (CASE)

• Biology and Computer Science 2012 - 2016
• Supervised by Professor Jon Timmis and Dr Mark Coles

Anna Grey

The uses and abuses of research metrics

• Management 2011 - 2017
• Supervised by Professor Kiran Fernandes and Professor Mathias Beck

Jenny Hsu
 

Cross-disciplinary computation-based research focused on understanding molecular interactions in biological systems

• Biology 2012 - 2015
• Supervised by Dr Leo Caves

Kazuki Iizuka
 

Integrated Dynamic Flux Balance Analysis Modeling of E.coli K-12, for Applications to Synthetic Biology and Bioenergy

• Biology 2013 - 2016
• Supervised by Dr Jamie Wood and Dr Gavin Thomas

Nayoung Kim

Distribution of mobile genetic elements in bacterial genomes

• Biology 2010 - 2013
• Supervised by Professor Peter Young

Jobie Kirkwood

Data mining and using neural networks to optimise protein crystallisation conditions

• Chemistry 2011 - 2014
• AstraZeneca CASE funded and supervised by Dr Julie Wilson and Dr Simon O'Keefe

German Leonov
 

Agent-based modelling of microRNA regularoty networks

• Computer Science and Centre ofr Immunology and Infection 2011 - 2015
• Supervised by Dr Dimitris Lagos and Professor Jon Timmis

 Jason Liu

Dynamic Data Fusion for Mobile Devices

• Electronics 2009 - 2012
• Supervised by Professor Jon Timmis and Dr Roger de Lemos

James McKenzie

Assessing the biological effects of nanotechnology by combining data from complimentary analytical chemistry techniques

• Chemistry 2009 - 2012
• Supervised by Dr Julie Wilson

Simon Milewski

Exploring the principles of open innovation in the context of process innovation

• Management 2011 - 2014
• Supervised by Professor Kiran Fernandes

Alan Millard

Self-healing swarm robotic systems

• Computer Science 2011 - 2014
• Supervised by Professor Jon Timmis and Professor Alan Winfield from Bristol Robotics Laboratory

Matthew Mount

Modelling the Potential of Disruptive Innovations: The case of Open Source Software reaching Critical Mass

• Management 2009 - 2012
• Supervised by Professor Kiran Fernande

Daniel Moyo
 

Computational modelling of hepatic granuloma formation in experiemtnal visceral leishmaniasis

• Computer Science 2010 - 2013
• EPSRC funded and supervised by Professor Jon Timmis and Professor Paul Kaye

Lachlan Murray

Immune-inspired fault tolerance in collective robotic systems

• Computer Science 2010 - 2013
• Supervised by Professor Jon Timmis and Professor Andy Tyrrell

Becky Naylor

Emergent synchronisation of artificial neurons in models of the visual system

• Computer Science 2008 - 2012
• Supervised by Dr Simon O'Keefe

Babajide Ogunyomi (Jimmy)
 

• Computer Science 2012 - 2016
• Supervised by Dr Louis Rose

Jenny Owen

Modelling and simulation of swarm robotic systems

• Computer Science 2008 - 2012
• Supervised by Professor Jon Timmis, Professor Susan Stepney and Professor Alan Winfield from Bristol Robotics Laboratory

Garo Panikian

Learning probablistic models of complex biological systems

• Computer Science 20011 - 2016
• Supervised by Dr James Cussens

Matthew Patrick

The Birth, Life and Death of Semantic Mutants

• Computer Science  2009 - 2012
• Supervised by Professor John Clark

Mike Perkins

Improving Policing performance through the use of Performance Management tools

• Management 2009 - 2012
• Supervised by Professor Kiran Fernandes

Yasmeen Rafiq

Online model learning for quality-of-service engineering in adaptive computer systems

• Computer Science 2012 - 2014
• Supervised by Dr Radu Calinescu

Ben Russell

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• Computer Science 2011 - 2014
• Supervised by Professor Susan Stepney

David Salthouse

A symmetry approach to virus architecture

• Mathematics 2009 - 2012
• Supervised by Professor Reidun Twarock

Tom Seaton

The coevolution of executable programs using complex representations

• Electronics 2009 - 2012
• Supervised by Dr Julian Miller

Nick Sephton
 

Integrating macnine learning, search and knowledge-based approaches for decision making: application to the complex game Magic: The Gathering

• Computer Science
• EngD - Supervised by Professor Peter Cowling 

Leo Shi

Innovativeness and the Diffusion of Innovation

• Management 2008 - 2010
• Supervised by Professor Kiran Fernandes

 Alex Turner

Artificial Biochemical Networks: Computational Models and Architectures

• Electronics 2010 - 2013
• EPSRC funded and supervised by Professor Andy Tyrrell

Richard Williams 

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Computational modelling of NF-κB pathway

• Computer Science 
• Supervised by Professor Jon TImmis

Celina Wong

End to end models in marine ecosystems

• Biology 2010 - 2013
• Dr Jon Pitchford, Prof Richard Law, Dr Steven Mackinson (CEFAS) and Dr Jonathan Beecham (CEFAS)

Emilio Zappa

 

Group Theroy and Dynamical Systems applied to Virology

• Mathematics 2012 - 2015
• Supervised by Professor Reidun Twarock 

Sarah Christmas
YCCSA Administrator
 

Administration

Tel: +44 1904 325334
Email: sarah.christmas@york.ac.uk 
Location: Ron Cooke Hub RCH/221