Jonathan Shapiro

Senior Lecturer, School of Computer Science, University of Manchester.

I am Deputy Director of the The Centre for Interdisciplinary Computation and Dynamical Analysis (CICADA).

I am the head of the Machine Learning and Optimization Group (nee the Artificial Intelligence Group)

I am running the Ambleside Interdisciplinary Summer School on Complex Systems

Finding me:

• e-mail:
• Telephone: +44-161-275-6253
• Fax: +44-161-275-6204
• Room: G 16 Kilburn Building
• Mailing Address: School of Computer Science, Kilburn Building, Oxford Road, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL United Kingdom
• My calendar: link to embedded Google calendar

For an photographer's impression, click here (as rendered by the photographer Maria Novelly, age not given).

Research Interests and Publications: (needs a major update)

• Estimation of Distribution Algorithms,
• Robotics,
• Theory of Genetic Algorithms,
• Neural Networks,
• Psychological Models,
• Other topics.
• Research Students

Summer Teaching:

• Director of: From Individual to Collective Behaviour in Large-Scale Complex Systems: An Interdisciplinary Summer School on Complex Systems, The English Lake District, August 20 - 29. Now taking applications.
• I lectured on Unsupervised Learning at The British Computer Society Summer School on Pattern Recognition, Plymouth, UK. 2004.
• I was the director of the 2003 Complex Systems Summer School, Santa Fe NM, USA, organized by the Santa Fe Institute, where I also taught Adaptive Computation and Statistical Mechanics.
• I was the co-director of the Complex Systems Summer School run in 2002 in Budapest, where I also taught Adaptive Computing. The Summer School was jointly organized by the Santa Fe Institute and the Central European University.
• I taught Supervised Learning and Reinforcement Learning in Neural Networks at the 2002 Complex Systems Summer School in Santa Fe, NM, organized by the Santa Fe Institute.
• I taught Genetic Algorithms in Machine Learning, at Advanced Summer School on Machine Learning and Applications, Chania, Crete, 1999.
• I taught Statistical Mechanics Theory of Genetic Algorithms at the Summer School on Theoretical Aspects of Evolutionary Computing Antwerp, 1-7 September, 1999. Here are the slides, and here is the paper. .

Winter Teaching

• I teach CS2411 - Subsymbolic Processing and Neural Networks, an undergraduate course on learning and heuristic search. Here is the CS2411 syllabus and here is the CS2411 web page .
• I teach CS6482 - Neural Networks, a postgraduate course on Neural Networks. Here is the CS6482 syllabus and here is the CS6482 web page .