Non-Standard Computation Group
Past People in the Group

Past Staff

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

Past research associates

Tim Taylor
2015: EvoEvo (EU FET)

Julianne Halley
2014-15: CellBranch (BBSRC)

Richard Greaves
2014-15: CellBranch (BBSRC)

Paul Andrews
2013-15: EvoEvo (EU FET)
2011-13: R-Futures (EPSRC)
2007-11: CoSMoS (EPSRC)

Simon Poulding
2012-14 : DAASE (EPSRC)
2006-09: SEBASE (EPSRC)

Adam Nellis
2012: Wild bird preservation

Ed Clark
2008-2011: Plazzmid (EPSRC): Computational models of bacterial evolution

David White
2011: SEBASE (EPSRC)

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

Xun Dong
CyberSecurity and Phishing

Peter Hines
Quantum information and category theory

Hao Chen
System-Smart Intrusion Detection

Manas Patra
2008-11: Quantum Computation

Ed Powley
2010: Game theory for security

Byung-Soo Choi
Quantum computation and information
(Visiting Associate)

Miguel Mendao
2005-07: BIAS-PROFS (EPSRC): Artificial Immune Systems

Sibasish Ghosh
2004-06: Quantum computation and information

Past research students

Carlo Ottaviani
October 2015
PhD thesis: Unconditional Security of Continuous-Variable Quantum Cryptography

Ben Russell
April 2015
PhD thesis: Geometric Control For Analysing the Quantum Speed Limit and the Physical Limitations of Computers

Richard Williams
September 2014
PhD thesis: An Agent-Based Model of the IL-1 Stimulated Nuclear Factor-kappa B Signalling Pathway

Ali Afshar Dodson
September 2014
PhD thesis: Schelling's Bounded Neighbourhood Model: A systematic investigation

Daniel Moyo
April 2014
PhD thesis: Investigating the Dynamics of Hepatic Inflammation Through Simulation

Mark Hadley
2014
PhD thesis: Empirical Evaluation of the Effectiveness and Reliability of Software Testing Adequacy Criteria and Reference Test Systems.

Nurulhuda Mohd Azmi
January 2014
PhD thesis: Artificial Immune Systems for information filtering

Matthew Patrick
Semantic Mutants EPSRC project
September 2013
PhD thesis: Mutation-Optimised Subdomains for Test Data Generation and Program Analysis.

Tiong Hoo Lim
September 2013
PhD thesis: Dependable Network Protocols in Wireless Sensor Networks .

Simon Poulding
July 2013
PhD thesis: The Use of Automated Search in Deriving Software Testing Strategies.

Jenny Owen
EPSRC CoSMoS project
Jan 2013
PhD thesis: An Investigation of Loose Coupling in Evolutionary Swarm Robotics

Teodor Ghetiu
EPSRC CoSMoS project
Sept 2012
PhD thesis: Structured Argumentation for Simulation-Based Research

James McLaughlin
Sept 2012
PhD thesis: Applications of search techniques to cryptanalysis and the construction of cipher components

Adam Nellis
EPSRC PLAZZMID project
Sept 2012
PhD thesis: Towards meta-evolution via embodiment in artificial chemistries

Kieran Alden
Joint BBSRC/EPSRC DTA student
August 2012
PhD thesis: Simulation and Statistical Techniques to Explore Lymphoid Tissue Organogenesis

Jan Staunton
EPSRC SEBASE project
May 2012
PhD thesis: Using Estimation of Distribution Algorithms to Detect Concurrent Faults

Hui Keng Lau
Feb 2012
PhD thesis: Error Detection in Swarm Robotics: A Focus on Adaptivity to Dynamic Environments

Tim Hoverd
Microsoft Research PhD Scholarship for CoSMoS project
Sept 2011
PhD thesis: Environment Oriented Simulation

Amelia Ritahani Ismail
Sept 2011
PhD thesis: Immune-Inspired Self-Healing Swarm Robotic Systems

Tara Gilliam
EPSRC DTA student
Sept 2011
PhD thesis: Writer identification in medieval and modern handwriting

Richard Greaves
Sept 2011
MSc thesis: Computational Modelling of Treg Networks in Experimental Autoimmune Encephalomyelitis

Mark Read
EPSRC DTA student
Sept 2011
PhD thesis: Statistical and Modelling Techniques to Build Confidence in the Investigation of Immunology through Agent-Based Simulation

Andrew Weeks
Microsoft Research European PhD Scholarship
March 2010
PhD thesis: Neutral emergence and coarse graining cellular automata

Sevil Sen
March 2010
PhD thesis: Evolutionary Computation Techniques for Intrusion Detection in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks

David White
March 2010
PhD thesis: Genetic Programming for low-resource systems

Xun Dong
Sept 2009
PhD thesis: Defending Against Phishing Attacks

Kamran Ghani
2009
PhD thesis: Searching for Test Data

Ed Powley
EPSRC DTA student
2009
PhD thesis: Global properties of Cellular Automata

Paul Andrews
2008
PhD thesis: An Investigation of a Methodology for the Development of Artificial Immune Systems:
     A Case-Study in Immune Receptor Degeneracy

Joss Wright
2008
PhD thesis: Characterising Anonymity Systems

Tom Walker
2008
PhD thesis: Relationships between Quantum and Classical Information

Kester Clegg
2008
EPSRC/Microsoft Research CASE student
PhD thesis: Evolving gene expression to reconfigure analogue devices

Heather Turner
2007:
EPSRC/BAE CASE student
PhD thesis: A framework for designing multi-level emergence

Hao Chen
2007
PhD thesis: A search-based framework for security protocol synthesis

Paul Massey
2006
PhD thesis: Searching for Quantum Software

Hong (Alex) Lin
2004
MSc thesis: A Real-Time Dynamic Danger Theory Model for Anomaly Detection in File Systems

Yang Liu
2004
MSc thesis: Security in Ubiquitous Healthcare Systems

Past Visitors

Luca Albergante : Jan 2009 -- Mar 2009
Department of Mathematics, University of Milan

Artificial Immune Systems Theory

Dr Juan Estevez-Tapiador : 27 Feb 2007 -- 01 Sept 2007; Feb 2009 -- May 2009
Computer Science Dept, Carlos III University of Madrid

Cryptography and cryptanalysis; Quantum Information and Computation.

Professor Shasanka Mohan Roy : 26 Sept 2005 -- Sept 2006
Department of Theoretical Physics, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India

Quantum Computation

Professor Rudrapatna S. Ramakrishna : 29 June 2005 -- 16 Sept 2005
Department of Information and Communication, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, South Korea

Evolutionary Computing; Quantum Computation: Distributed Algorithms and Foundational Issues