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