Courses

This year I am teaching into the following papers
  • COMPSCI 765: Interactive Cognitive Systems
  • COMPSCI 369: Computational Biology
  • BIOSCI 702: Systems and Models in the Natural Sciences
  • ASTRO 200G: Astrobiology

Prospective Graduate Students

If you are interested in one or more of the topics presented on this website, and considering graduate study, please feel welcome to get in touch by email. But please do not send through a copy/pasted generic email --- it will likely get deleted without a response.

If you are someone who identifies as belonging to an under-represented group in academia, I'd especially encourage you to get in touch!

Current graduate students

  • Louis Lin — MSc Candidate   ( Mar., 2021 — ongoing )
    Computational models of minimal forms of self-preserving behaviour
  • Sumeet Kumar — MSc Candidate   ( Jul., 2020 — ongoing )
    Characterizing Stability in Random Ecological Networks
  • Isabella Kite — Honours Candidate   ( Jul. 2019 — ongoing )
    Altering Perception during reaching tasks using Virtual Reality
    co-supervised with Chris Erb, School of Psychology
  • Yan Kolezhitskiy — Doctoral Candidate   ( Apr., 2019 — ongoing )
    Behaviour at the Origin of Life
    co-supervised with Claire Postlethwaite, Dept. of Mathematics
  • James Garner — Doctoral Candidate   ( Mar., 2019 — ongoing )
    Investigating Interoception, Affect & Emotion With Simulated Agents
    co-supervised with Emily Parke, Dept of Philosophy
  • Mario Zarco — Doctoral Candidate   ( Oct., 2018 — ongoing )
    Sensorimotor behaviour at different scales: from social interaction to the role of culture.
    co-supervised with Yun Sing Koh
  • Valerie Jeong — Doctoral Candidate   ( Aug., 2018 — ongoing )
    Noise in Heteroclinic Network-Based Evolutionary Robotics
    co-supervised with Claire Postlethwaite, Dept. of Mathematics
  • Felix Woolford — Doctoral Candidate   ( July, 2018 — ongoing )
    Sensorimotor-based Intelligence in Robotics and Simulated Agents
    co-supervised with Yun Sing Koh, School of Computer Science

Past students

  • Isabelle Steinmann — Summer Scholar   ( Nov. 2018 — Mar. 2019 )
    Dynamical Analysis of a Self-Sustaining Behavioural Mechanism
    co-supervised with Claire Postlethwaite, Dept. of Mathematics
  • Stefano Cavallero — Honours Candidate   ( Mar. 2018 — Nov. 2018 )
    Guided Self-Organization in a Computational Model of Diffusion-Limited Aggregation
  • Jerome Wynne — Northern Hemisphere Summer Research Scholar   ( July, 2018 — Sept., 2018 )
    Dynamical Analysis of Minimal Two-Wheeled Robots
    co-supervised with Claire Postlethwaite, Dept. of Mathematics
  • Valerie Jeong — MSc   ( Mar., 2017 — Mar., 2018 )
    Evolving a Heteroclinic Network in Sensorimotor Tasks
    co-supervised with Claire Postlethwaite, Dept. of Mathematics
  • Nidia Jackson — MSc   ( Mar., 2017 — Apr., 2018 )
    Evolving the Parameters of Heteroclinic Networks to act as Controllers in Embodied Robotics Tasks
    co-supervised with Claire Postlethwaite, Dept. of Mathematics
  • Darius Au — Summer Scholar   ( Dec. 2017 — Feb. 2018 )
    Habit-based Lego Robots
  • Teddy Halim — Summer Scholar   ( Dec. 2017 — Feb. 2018 )
    Habit-based Lego Robots