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Students and Postdocs of Jonathan Shapiro

Current Students

I am main supervisor for

• Richard Mealing (Prediction Algorithms for Learning Probabilistic Behaviour in Multi-Agent Systems).

I am co-supervisor for

• Junyi Han (Computational Steering and Distributed computing in large-scale system)
• Nikolaous Nikolauo (Information theoretic dimensionality reduction)
• Jon Parkinson (Exploration and Exploitation of Slowness Principle via Deep Learning)

Current Posttdoc Researchers

• Dr. Joe Mellor Joe is working as an EPSRC PhD Plus Researcher on the project Bayesian Sequential Decision Making Via Sampling.
• Dr. Tim Butters, is the Associate on a Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) project with Sabisu. He is working as the Data Assimilation and Numerical Analysis Specialist.

Past Students

Joe Mellor:

"Decision Making Using Thompson Sampling" (2014). Currently position: working with me as an EPSRC PhD Plus Researcher.

Roufei He:

"Bayesian Mixture Models for Frequent Itemset Mining." (2012). Current position: Not known.

Chong Liu:

"Reinforcement Learning with Time Perception." (2012). Current position: Not known.

John Michael Butterworth:

"Stability of gradient-based learning dynamics in two-agent imperfect-information games." (2010). Current position: Not known.

Hao Wu:

"Overfitting in Estimation of Distribution Algorithms" (2009). Current position: Strategy and Regional Development Manager at China Telecom Europe London, United Kingdom

Jongchan Park:

"Information Theoretic Approach to Clustering of Amino Acid Sequences and its Use in Protein Sequence Comparison" (2008). Current position: Not known.

Joy Bose:

"Engineering a Sequence Machine Through Spiking Neurons Employing Rank-Order Codes" (2007). (Jointly supervised with Steve Furber.) Current position: Senior Chief Engineer at Samsung Research India Bengaluru, Karnataka, India (Bengaluru Area, India)

Elon Correa:

"Model Complexity and Convergence Pressure in Estimation of Distribution Algorithms" (2005). Current position: Research Associate, School of Chemistry, the University of Manchester.

Jason Fleischer:

``Adaptive Landmark Symbol Learning for Route Communication between Mobile Robots'' (2004). Current position: Assistant Professor, Scripts Research Institute; Senior Fellow, Neurosciences Institute, San Diego, Ca. USA.

Nicholas Fournier:

``Value-Distribution in Constraint Satisfaction Problems'' (2003) Current whereabouts unknown.

Stephen Marsland:

``On-line Novelty Detection through Self-Organization, with Applications to Inspection Robotics'' (2002). (Jointly supervised with Ulrich Nehmzow.) The thesis was a runner up in the BCS Distinguished Dissertations in Computer Science series. Current position: professor of scientific computing in the computer science cluster of the School of Engineering and Advanced Technology (SEAT) at Massey University in Palmerston North, New Zealand.

Sybil Hirsch:

``The Assessment of Artificial Neural Networks and Other Statistical Techniques in Asthma Screening" (1998). Sybil Hirsch is retired from a career as a researcher at the North West Lung Research Centre, Wythenshaw Hospital, Manchester.

Magnus Rattray:

``Modelling the Dynamics of Genetic Algorithms Using Statistical Mechanics" (1996.) Current position: Professor of Computational and Systems Biology, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Manchester.