I am a post-doctoral Research Fellow at the Centre of Excellence for Research in Computational Intelligence and Applications (CERCIA) in the School of Computer Science at the University of Birmingham.
I work on the European FP7 project Engineering Proprioception in Computing Systems (EPiCS), a four year Europe-wide research project, involving partners from Norway, Germany, Switzerland, Austria and the UK. The particular focus of the Birmingham team is the concepts and foundations for self-awareness and self-expression in autonomic computing systems. Much of this is achieved through online learning algorithms, biological, social and economic inspired techniques.
Also working on the EPiCS project at Birmingham are Professor Xin Yao and Dr. Rami Bahsoon.
Prior to this position, I completed my Ph.D. on Evolutionary Market-Based Resource Allocation in Decentralised Computational Systems under the supervision of Professor Xin Yao and Dr. Paul Marrow at BT. The Ph.D. project was funded through an EPSRC Industrial CASE studentship.
I am part of the Natural Computation research group in the school and was previously also closely associated with the EPSRC Market-Based Control of Complex Computational Systems project, which has now ended.
My teaching duties include being Deputy Programme Director for the MSc in Natural Computation and MSc in Intelligent Systems Engineering. I have previously lectured on the Introduction to Natural Computation module and been a tutor for the MSc Software Workshop.
