Nature Inspired Computing and Engineering Projects

Research projects in the Nature Inspired Computing and Engineering group are:

Title Investigator Funding Source Funding Amount
A theoretical framework for swarms of GRN-controlled agents which display adaptive tissue-like organisation (SWARM-ORGAN) Yaochu Jin

FP7 STREP 601062

€523,571 (Total €2,221,000)
Comminuty Microbes André Grüning

EPSRC MILES (EP/I000992/1)

£10,000
Copyright protection and forensics of bootleg museum images Yaochu Jin, Johann A Briffa

EPSRC CASE (10001560)

£89,500
Evolutionary Methods for Generating Hierarchical and Multi-label Classifiers Yaochu Jin

Santander Doctoral Student Award

£5,000
Fusion of EEG and fMRI; A novel approach based on NMF Saeid Sanei

The Leverhulme Trust

£29,589
General-Purpose Learning Algorithms for Spiking Neural Networks André Grüning

EPSRC First Grant (EP/I014934/1)

£100,751
Investigation of stochastic variations in growth rate as the mechanism of drug tolerance in Myco bacterium tuberculosis Johnjoe McFadden

BBSRC

£619,601
KTA on Automated Diabetic Retinopathy Screening of Normal Images (DAPHNE) Hongying (Lilian) Tang

EPSRC (EP/H500189/1)

£65,171
KTA on Optimisation of CFRP Stiffened Panels of Aircraft Yaochu Jin, Andrew Crocombe

EPSRC Knowledge Transfer Account (GR/T10101/01)

£51,112
KTA with Alpha-Active Ltd Matthew Casey, Antony Browne

EPSRC (EP/H500189/1)

£21,094
KTA with Waterfall Solutions Ltd Matthew Casey

EPSRC (EP/H500189/1)

£17,194
Model-based evolutionary many-objective optimization Yaochu Jin

Honda Research Institute Europe

£116,733
Morphometric Herbarium Image Data Analysis (MORPHIDAS) Jonathan Clark, Hongying (Lilian) Tang

Leverhulme Trust

£189,113
Predictive Modelling of the Social Networks Influencing Obesity J. Bernadette Moore, Matthew Casey

EPSRC MILES (EP/I000992/1)

£7,800
Putting Computational Models in the Real-World Matthew Casey

EPSRC (Vacation Bursary)

£2500
Sparse Multi-way Digital Signal Processing Approach for Detection of Deep Medial Temporal Discharges from Scalp EEG Saeid Sanei

EPSRC

£390,000
Surgical Skill Assessment Through Instrument Motion Analysis (SENTIMENT) Hongying (Lilian) Tang

EPSRC EP/H500189/1

£32,321
Workshop on Biologically Inspired Information Fusion Matthew Casey, Paul Sowden , Antony Browne

EPSRC (EP/E012795/1), IAS

£18,341