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Faculty

Dr Adam Barrett

Senior Lecturer in Machine Learning and Data Science

Interests: consciousness, information theory, complex systems analysis, time series analysis, emergence, macroeconomics

Email: abb22@sussex.ac.uk

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Dr Adam Barrett

Dr James Bennett

Lecturer in Computer Science and AI

Interests: Computational neuroscience, learning and synaptic plasticity, decision making, neural reinforcement learning, bio-inspired machine learning

Email: James.Bennett@sussex.ac.uk

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Dr James Bennett

Prof Luc Berthouze

Professor of Complex Systems

Interests: spreading processes on networks (neuroscience, epidemics), time series analysis, synchronisation, coordination, human and robotic motor control

Email: L.Berthouze@sussex.ac.uk

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Prof Luc Berthouze

Prof Margaret A Boden

Professor of Cognitive Science

Interests: Artficial intelligance and Philosophy of Mind

Email: M.A.Boden@sussex.ac.uk

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Prof Margaret A Boden

Dr Simon Bowes

Lecturer in cognitive science and philosophy

Interests: Cognitive science, philosophy, consciousness, virtual machine functionalism, maps & territories

Email: S.C.Bowes@sussex.ac.uk

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Dr Simon Bowes

Prof Christopher L Buckley

Professor of Neural Computation

Interests: My interests lie at the intersection between neuroscience and embodied artificial intelligence (Active Inference, Control Theory, Machine Learning).

Email: C.L.Buckley@sussex.ac.uk

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Prof Christopher L Buckley

Prof Ron Chrisley

Professor of Cognitive Science and AI

Interests: ML for creativity, (meta)cognitive ML, expectation-based models of experience, AGI/machine consciousness, philosophy of AI, ethics & governance of AI

Email: R.L.Chrisley@sussex.ac.uk

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Prof Ron Chrisley

Prof Andy Clark

Professor in Cognitive Philosophy

Interests: Embodied Cognition, Predictive Processing, Extended Minds, Socio-technological Systems, Philosophy of Cognitive Science

Email: Andy.Clark@sussex.ac.uk

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Prof Andy Clark

Dr Benjamin Evans

Lecturer in Computer Science and AI

Interests: Convolutional Neural Networks Spiking Neural Networks Machine Learning Visual Perception

Email: B.D.Evans@sussex.ac.uk

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Dr Benjamin Evans

Prof Phil Husbands

Professor of AI

Interests: Evolutionary and adaptive systems; embodied AI; neural dynamics; bio-inspired robotics; comp. neuroscience; history of AI/cybernetics; Alife

Email: P.Husbands@sussex.ac.uk

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Prof Phil Husbands

Dr Chris Johnson

Lecturer in AI

Interests: Artificial Intelligence, Artificial Life, Morphological Computation, Biorobotics

Email: C.A.Johnson@sussex.ac.uk

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Dr Chris Johnson

Prof Michael Luck

Deputy Vice Chancellor and Provost

Interests: Artificial Intelligence, agent-based computing, intelligent agents, multi-agent systems

Email: Michael.Luck@sussex.ac.uk

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Prof Michael Luck

Dr Jeff Mitchell

Lecturer in Computer Science & AI

Interests: NLP, Cognitive Science, Generalisation, Compositionality, Syntax, Semantics

Email: jm2136@sussex.ac.uk

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Dr Jeff Mitchell

Prof Thomas Nowotny

Professor of Informatics and Co-Director of Sussex AI

Interests: Biomimetic AI and Computational Neuroscience, in particular spiking neural networks (SNN), insect olfaction, dynamic clamp and GPU acceleration

Email: T.Nowotny@sussex.ac.uk

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Prof Thomas Nowotny

Dr Temitayo Olugbade

Lecturer in Computer Science & AI

Interests: Affective computing, Body movement modelling, Physiological computing

Email: T.Olugbade@sussex.ac.uk

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Dr Temitayo Olugbade

Prof Novi Quadrianto

Professor of Machine Learning

Interests: Ethical and Trustworthy AI; Safe and Robust AI; Interactive AI

Email: N.Quadrianto@sussex.ac.uk

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Prof Novi Quadrianto

Prof Jeremy Reffin

Research Professor

Interests: compositional distributional semantics; the application of machine-based techniques to the analysis of text and language; the extraction and modelling of causal relationships from large data sets using machines.

Email: J.P.Reffin@sussex.ac.uk

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Prof Jeremy Reffin

Dr Fernando Rosas

Lecturer in Computer Science and AI

Interests: Complexity, emergence, information decomposition, time-series analysis, computational neuroscience

Email: F.Rosas@sussex.ac.uk

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Dr Fernando Rosas

Dr Warrick Roseboom

Senior Lecturer in Psychology and Inform

Interests: human perception and memory, consciousness, biologically inspired machine learning

Email: W.J.Roseboom@sussex.ac.uk

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Dr Warrick Roseboom

Dr Johanna Senk

Lecturer in Computer Science

Interests: computational neuroscience, large-scale spiking neural network simulations, structural plasticity, spatial networks, neuromorphic computing

Email: J.Senk@sussex.ac.uk

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Dr Johanna Senk

Prof Anil Seth

Professor of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience

Interests: consciousness, predictive processing, computational neuroscience, active inference, granger causality

Email: A.K.Seth@sussex.ac.uk

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Prof Anil Seth

Dr Viktoriia Sharmanska

Lecturer in AI

Interests: Computer Vision and Machine Learning

Email: sharmanska.v@sussex.ac.uk

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Dr Viktoriia Sharmanska

Dr Maxine Sherman

Lecturer in Computer Science & AI

Interests: consciousness; perception; uncertainty, confidence and metacognition; decision-making

Email: M.Sherman@sussex.ac.uk

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Dr Maxine Sherman

Dr Ivor Simpson

Senior Lecturer in AI and Academic Lead for Sussex AI

Interests: Bayesian inference and ML, uncertainty estimation, generative models, shape analysis. Spatiotemporal data: medical imaging, computer vision, graphics.

Email: i.simpson@sussex.ac.uk

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Dr Ivor Simpson

Dr Chris Thornton

Lecturer in Computing Science

Interests: Information theory, predictive processing, creativity, compositionality, implicit learning, free energy, cognitive archaeology, machine learning.

Email: C.Thornton@sussex.ac.uk

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Dr Chris Thornton

Prof Julie Weeds

Professor in Artificial Intelligence and Co-Director for Sussex AI

Interests: Natural Language Processing, distributional semantics, computational socio-linguistics, machine learning and data science

Email: juliewe@sussex.ac.uk

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Prof Julie Weeds

Prof David Weir

Professor of Computer Science

Interests: Natural Language Processing; Computational Social Science; Social Media Analysis.

Email: D.J.Weir@sussex.ac.uk

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Prof David Weir

Dr Peter Wijeratne

Lecturer in Computer Science and AI

Interests: Probabilistic models, machine learning, statistical models, neurodegeneration, neurodevelopment

Email: P.Wijeratne@sussex.ac.uk

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Dr Peter Wijeratne

Dr Sharon Wood

Honorary Senior Lecturer

Interests: Cognitive science, cognitive modelling, visual attention, decision-making.

Email: S.Wood@sussex.ac.uk

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Dr Sharon Wood

Research Staff

Dr Colin Ashby

Research Fellow

Interests: I am a PhD student focussing on Web Information Extraction and the design of downstream applications.

Email: C.Ashby@sussex.ac.uk

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Dr Colin Ashby

Dr Lionel Barnett

Research Fellow

Interests: I am interested in functional - in particular information-theoretic - analysis of neurophysiological data, and of complex systems in general.

Email: L.C.Barnett@sussex.ac.uk

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Dr Lionel Barnett

Dr Myles Bartlett

Research Fellow

Interests: Generative Models, Meta-learning, Continual-learning, Learning from Biased Data, Fair Machine Learning, Variational Inference, Clustering

Email: M.Bartlett@sussex.ac.uk

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Dr Myles Bartlett

Dr Alexander Butterworth

Research Fellow

Interests: Digital Publishing, Data Visualization

Email: A.Butterworth@sussex.ac.uk

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Dr Alexander Butterworth

Dr Nestor Prieto Chavana

Research Fellow

Interests: Automated Fact Checking, Information Extraction

Email: N.Prieto-Chavana@sussex.ac.uk

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Dr Nestor Prieto Chavana

Dr Justin Crow

SHL Research Fellow

Interests: eyewitness detection; event detection; social media analysis; crisis informatics; situational awareness; open source intelligence; data visualisation

Email: Justin.Crow@sussex.ac.uk

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Dr Justin Crow

Dr Efstathios Kagioulis

Research Fellow

Interests: Visual Navigation, Computer Vision, Machine Learning

Email: E.Kagioulis@sussex.ac.uk

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Dr Efstathios Kagioulis

Dr Thomas Kehrenberg

Research Fellow

Interests: Fair Machine Learning, Adversarial Machine Learning

Email: T.Kehrenberg@sussex.ac.uk

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Dr Thomas Kehrenberg

Dr James Knight

Research Fellow

Interests: GPU computing, Neuromorphic systems, Biomimetic AI, Neurorobotics, Spike-based Machine Learning

Email: J.C.Knight@sussex.ac.uk

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Dr James Knight

Dr Jack Pay

Research Fellow

Interests: Information Retrieval, Web Crawling, Web Search, Domain-Specific Data Collection, Machine Learning, Vocabulary Discovery/Expansion

Email: jp242@sussex.ac.uk

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Dr Jack Pay

Dr Andrew D Robertson

Research Fellow

Interests: Natural language processing, deep learning, social media analysis.

Email: Andrew.Robertson@sussex.ac.uk

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Dr Andrew D Robertson

Dr Fabian Schubert

Research Fellow

Interests: Spiking Neural Networks, Bio-Inspired ML, Homeostasis and Dynamics of RNNs.

Email: F.Schubert@sussex.ac.uk

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Dr Fabian Schubert

Dr Danish Shaikh

Research Fellow

Interests: Biorobotics, active perception, multisensory-integration, neuroscience-driven machine learning and AI, memory augmented neural networks

Email: ds698@sussex.ac.uk

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Dr Danish Shaikh

Dr Rachael Stentiford

Research Fellow

Interests: Computational neuroscience, Spiking neural networks, visual navigation in insects

Email: R.L.Stentiford@sussex.ac.uk

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Dr Rachael Stentiford

Dr Oliver Thomas

Research Fellow

Interests: Fair Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Variational Inference, Generative Modelling, Kernel Methods, Implicit Methods

Email:

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Dr Oliver Thomas

Dr Fevzi Tugrul Varna

Associate Research Fellow

Interests: Computational intelligence, swarm intelligence, evolutionary computation, global optimisation, multi-swarms and heterogeneity in swarm algorithms.

Email: F.Varna@sussex.ac.uk

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Dr Fevzi Tugrul Varna

PhD Students

Albertus Andito

PhD Candidate

Interests: Natural Language Processing, Web information extraction

Email: A.Andito@sussex.ac.uk

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Albertus Andito

Romy Beauté

PhD Candidate

Interests: Interests: consciousness; altered states of consciousness, neurophenomenology; computational neuroscience; perception; machine learning; NLP

Email: R.Beaut@sussex.ac.uk

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Romy Beauté

Muyun Cai

PhD Candidate

Interests: Neuroscience, Wearable Technologies

Email: mc871@sussex.ac.uk

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Muyun Cai

Enrico Caprioglio

PhD Candidate

Interests: Interests: Network approach to Complexity Science (brain inspired), Synchronization and Emergence

Email: E.Caprioglio@sussex.ac.uk

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Enrico Caprioglio

Giuseppe Castiglione

PhD Candidate

Interests: Optimization, AI safety, Neural Network Phenomenology, Graphical Models, Unsupervised Learning, Reinforcement Learning, Phase Transitions, Simulation

Email: G.Castiglione@sussex.ac.uk

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Giuseppe Castiglione

Norbert Domcsek

PhD Candidate

Interests: Using insect inspired algorithms to autonomously control a wheeled robot

Email: nd234@sussex.ac.uk

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Norbert Domcsek

Kevin Doran

PhD Candidate

Interests: Deep learning, computer vision, retina

Email: kd408@sussex.ac.uk

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Kevin Doran

Christopher Dunne

PhD Candidate

Interests: Distributed Intelligence. Embodied Intelligence. Complex Systems. Multi-task learning. Continual learning.

Email: C.Dunne@sussex.ac.uk

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Christopher Dunne

Maryam Gholampour

PhD Candidate

Interests: Computational Neuroscience, Network Science, Dynamical Systems, Stability Analysis, Delayed Differential Equations

Email: M.Gholampour-Dehaki@sussex.ac.uk

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Maryam Gholampour

Kieran Gibb

PhD Candidate

Interests: Machine listening and computational ecoacoustics, generative models, uncertainty estimation, interpretability

Email: K.A.Gibb@sussex.ac.uk

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Kieran Gibb

Pranav Indrakanti

PhD Candidate

Interests: Computer Vision, MR Imaging

Email: P.Indrakanti@sussex.ac.uk

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Pranav Indrakanti

Wing Yan LI

PhD Candidate

Interests: Natural Language Processing

Email: wl238@sussex.ac.uk

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Wing Yan LI

Mary Mansour Fouad

PhD Candidate

Interests: social media data analysis

Email: M.Mansour-Fouad@sussex.ac.uk

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Mary Mansour Fouad

Balázs Mészáros

PhD Candidate

Interests: Computational Neuroscience, Spiking Neural Networks

Email: B.Mszros@sussex.ac.uk

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Balázs Mészáros

Stefan Meyer

PhD Candidate

Interests: Image Processing, Visual Navigation, Insect Inspired Solutions

Email: S.Meyer@sussex.ac.uk

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Stefan Meyer

Qiwei Peng

PhD Candidate

Interests: Distributional Semantics, Compositional Semantics, Natural Language Understanding

Email: Qiwei.Peng@sussex.ac.uk

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Qiwei Peng

Shaun Ring

PhD Candidate

Interests:

Email: Shaun.Ring@sussex.ac.uk

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Shaun Ring

Chris Robinson

PhD Candidate

Interests: Causality, Bayesian Networks

Email: C.F.Robinson@sussex.ac.uk

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Chris Robinson

Fernando Rodriguez-Vergara

PhD Candidate

Interests: Artificial Life Time experience Computational Phenomenology Minimal Cognition and Perception

Email: F.Rodriguez-Vergara@sussex.ac.uk

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Fernando Rodriguez-Vergara

Sara Romiti

PhD Candidate

Interests: Causal inference, computer vision

Email: S.Romiti@sussex.ac.uk

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Sara Romiti

Dexter Shepherd

PhD Candidate

Interests: Neurorobotics, tactile sensing, evolutionary computation, neural networks, insect inspired approaches

Email: D.R.Shepherd@sussex.ac.uk

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Dexter Shepherd

Aisha Lawal Shuaibu

PhD Candidate

Interests: Computer Vision, Medical Imaging, Machine Learning

Email: A.Shuaibu@sussex.ac.uk

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Aisha Lawal Shuaibu

Esme Stanford-Durkin

PhD Candidate

Interests: Ethical AI, Alignment, Philosophy of AI, generative AI, AI Manipulation/coercion, algotithmic bias, cognitive bias, Misinformation/disinformation

Email: es434@sussex.ac.uk

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Esme Stanford-Durkin

Georgios Voulgaris

PhD Candidate

Interests: Deep learning, Computer Vision, Remote Sensing, Deep Learning Robustness, Semantic Segmentation, Physics Aware A.I.

Email: gv29@sussex.ac.uk

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Georgios Voulgaris

Giles Winchester

PhD Candidate

Interests: Computer Network Management, Network Science, Time Series Analysis, Complex Systems

Email: G.Winchester@sussex.ac.uk

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Giles Winchester

Yidan Xu

PhD Candidate

Interests: Machine Learning, Human Health

Email: yx280@sussex.ac.uk

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Yidan Xu

Ahmed Younes

PhD Candidate

Interests: I am intrested in improving Arabic NLP tasks by enriching Arabic representations. Arabic NLP, Diacritics, Segmentation

Email: A.Younes@sussex.ac.uk

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Ahmed Younes

Kieran Young

PhD Candidate

Interests:

Email: ky212@sussex.ac.uk

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Kieran Young