Non-Standard Computation Group
People in the Group

Staff

Susan Stepney
Emergence; open dynamical systems; requirements for nano-assemblers; FPGAs

Samuel L. Braunstein
Quantum computation, information theory, and communication

John A. Clark
Application of reality-based approaches to hard problems in cryptology and security; trajectories; FPGAs

Jon Timmis
(joint member with Electronics Dept)
artificial immune systems, homeostatic systems, biological plausibility within artificial systems

Fiona Polack
Software engineering for non-standard computation; requirements for nano-assemblers

Stefano Pirandola
Quantum Information and Computation

Dimitar Kazakov
(joint member with AI)
Emergent properties of agent systems

Daniel Kudenko
(joint member with AI)
Multi-agent systems; coordination without communication

Simon O'Keefe
(joint member with ACA group)
neural networks; computing with cells and membranes; cellular automata; binary (gene) networks; quantum computation

Research Fellows

Dan Franks
RCUK Research Fellow (joint member with Biology)
Evolutionary simulation modelling; coevolutionary algorithms; agent social learning

Research Associates

Peter Hines
Quantum information and category theory

Xun Dong
Non-standard security; phishing

Paul Andrews
CoSMoS

Hao Chen
System-Smart Intrusion Detection

Ed Clark
Plazzmid: Computational models of bacterial evolution

Simon Hickinbotham
Plazzmid: Bacterial-inspired subsumption architectures

Juan Estevez-Tapiador
International Technical Alliance (ITA) project (joint with HISE group)
Cryptography and cryptanalysis; Quantum Information and Computation

David White
SEBASE

Research Students

Mark Hadley
testing

Tara Gilliam
EPSRC DTA student
Robot Calligrapher

Tim Hoverd
CoSMoS: generative patterns

Simon Poulding
SEBASE

Rita Ismail
Artificial Immune Systems

Mark Read
EPSRC DTA student
Artificial Immune Systems

Nurulhuda Mohd Azmi
Artificial Immune Systems

Hui Keng Lau
Artificial Immune Systems and Real Time Systems

Teodor Ghetiu
CoSMoS project
Complex systems modelling of plant ecologies

James McLaughlin
nature-inspired search techniques for cryptanalysis

Adam Nellis
PLAZZMID project
Meta-evolution

Jan Staunton
SEBASE project

Jenny Owen
CoSMoS project
Swarm robotics as a complex system

Matthew Patrick
Semantic Mutants EPSRC project

Keiran Alden
Joint BBSRC/EPSRC DTA student
Modelling Immune Systems

Tiong Hoo Lim
AIS and Sensor Networks

Ali Afshar Dodson
Crime and punishment in agent based social systems

Daniel Moyo
immune modelling

Richard Williams
immune modelling

Richard Greaves
immune modelling

Stewart Aitken
FPGAs for complex systems modelling

Visitors

Affiliates

Ran Bi
Electronics Dept, UYork
SYMBRION project

Colin Bonney
Electronics Dept, UYork
Self-repairing cellular architectures and AIS

Piero Conca
Electronics Dept, UYork
AIS and sensor fusion

James Cussens
AI group, CS, UYork
Bioinformatics

Adam Faulconbridge
Biology Dept, UYork
BBSRC student
Developmental processes

Philip Garnett
Biology Dept, UYork
BBSRC/Microsoft Research CASE student
Hybrid models of plant branching

James Hilder
Electronics Dept, UYork
AIS; anomaly detection

Jerry Liu
Electronics Dept, UYork
SABRE project

Xiaohu (Jason) Liu
Electronics Dept, UYork
Sensor fusion

Mungo Pay
Electronics Dept, UYork
Plazzmid project
helicoptor control

Omer Qadir
Electronics Dept, UYork
SABRE project

Louis Rose
HISE group, CS, UYork
Patterns and Modelling

Antonio Gomez Zamorano
Electronics Dept, UYork
CoSMoS project
FPGA designs for Complex Systems simulation

* Past members