Biography
My own undergraduate training was in physics and computer science. After graduation I worked in the IT industry supporting manufacturing companies in the telecoms and agricultural sectors of the economy for a number of years. I returned to academia in the early 1990's to complete an MSc and then my PhD (in the field of neural networks). After spells as a post-doctoral researcher at the EC Joint Research Centre in Italy and also in the MacKay Institute for Communication & Neuroscience at Keele, I became a Computer Science lecturer and eventually joined the staff here at Keele in 2001.
Research and scholarship
Computational modelling and evaluation of human perception: vision, audition, speech processing. Data mining of very large datasets (e.g. astrophysical surveys of the night sky, electromagnetic surveys of the built environment etc.). Intelligent decision support for NHS clinicians trying to identify/treat patients with conditions such as colo-rectal cancer or stroke. Investigator on an EPSRC funded project using neural networks to identify selected chemical elements via their x-ray signatures.
Teaching
- CSC-10035 Natural Computation
- CSC-30020 Computational Intelligence II
- CSC-30024 Undergraduate Work Placements
- CSC-40040 MSc Projects
Selected Publications
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A comparative evaluation of time-delay, deep learning and echo state neural networks when used as simulated transhumeral prosthesis controllers. 2020 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN). IEEE. doi> link> full text>2020.
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Digital Twin: Enabling Technologies, Challenges and Open Research. IEEE ACCESS, 108952-108971, vol. 8. link> doi> full text>2020.
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Using Fuzzy Inference system for detection the edges of Musculoskeletal Ultrasound Images. Proceddings of FUZZ-IEEE 2019. IEEE. doi> full text>2019.
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Fault Detection in Steel-Reinforced Concrete Using Echo State Networks. 2018 INTERNATIONAL JOINT CONFERENCE ON NEURAL NETWORKS (IJCNN). link> doi> full text>2018.
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Journal Articles
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Digital Twin: Enabling Technologies, Challenges and Open Research. IEEE ACCESS, 108952-108971, vol. 8. link> doi> full text>2020.
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Adult fly age estimations using cuticular hydrocarbons and Artificial Neural Networks in forensically important Calliphoridae species. Forensic Sci Int, 233-244, vol. 280. link> doi> full text>2017.
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Structural health monitoring of a footbridge using Echo State Networks and NARMAX. ENGINEERING APPLICATIONS OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, 152-163, vol. 64. link> doi> full text>2017.
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Optimizing Echo State Networks for Static Pattern Recognition. COGNITIVE COMPUTATION, 391-399, vol. 9(3). link> doi> full text>2017.
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Age estimation of Calliphora (Diptera: Calliphoridae) larvae using cuticular hydrocarbon analysis and Artificial Neural Networks. Forensic Sci Int, 81-91, vol. 268. link> doi> full text>2016.
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Artificial Neural Network analysis of hydrocarbon profiles for the ageing of Lucilia sericata for Post Mortem Interval estimation. Forensic Science International, 25-31, vol. 232(1-3).2013.
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DEFECT DETECTION IN REINFORCED CONCRETE USING RANDOM NEURAL ARCHITECTURES. Computer-Aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering, 191-207. doi>2013.
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Artificial Neural Network analysis of hydrocarbon profiles for the ageing of Lucilia sericata for Post Mortem Interval estimation. Forensic Science International, 25-31, vol. 232(1-3). doi>2013.
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Reservoir computing and extreme learning machines for non-linear time-series data analysis. Neural Networks. doi>2012.
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Chapters
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Artificial Neural Network Analysis of Volatile Organic Compounds for the Detection of Lung Cancer. (vol. 650). link> doi> full text>2018.
Other
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A comparative evaluation of time-delay, deep learning and echo state neural networks when used as simulated transhumeral prosthesis controllers. 2020 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN). IEEE. doi> link> full text>2020.
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Using Fuzzy Inference system for detection the edges of Musculoskeletal Ultrasound Images. Proceddings of FUZZ-IEEE 2019. IEEE. doi> full text>2019.
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Fault Detection in Steel-Reinforced Concrete Using Echo State Networks. 2018 INTERNATIONAL JOINT CONFERENCE ON NEURAL NETWORKS (IJCNN). link> doi> full text>2018.
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Fault Detection in Steel-Reinforced Concrete Using Echo State Networks. Proceedings of 2018 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN) (pp. 1-8). IEEE. doi> full text>2018.
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Artificial neural network analysis of volatile organic compounds for the detection of lung cancer. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing (pp. 183-190). Springer Verlag. full text>2017.
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Using Convolutional Neural Network for Edge Detection in Musculoskeletal Ultrasound Images. 2016 INTERNATIONAL JOINT CONFERENCE ON NEURAL NETWORKS (IJCNN) (pp. 4619-4626). link> doi> full text>2016.
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Echo state network applications in structrual health monitoring. Proceedings of 2015 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN). IEEE. doi>2015.
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An Echo State Network Approach to Structural Health Monitoring. 2015 INTERNATIONAL JOINT CONFERENCE ON NEURAL NETWORKS (IJCNN). link> full text>2015.
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Critical mutation rate has an exponential dependence on population size. In T. Lenaerts, M. Giacobini, H. Bersini, P. Bourgine, M. Dorigo & R. Doursat (Eds.). Advances in Artificial Life, ECAL 2011: Proceedings of the Eleventh European Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems (pp. 117-124). Heidelberg: MIT Press. doi> full text>2011.
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Discovering and maintaining behaviours inaccessible to incremental genetic evolution through transcription errors and cultural transmission. In T. Lenaerts, M. Giacobini, H. Bersini, P. Bourgine, M. Dorigo & R. Doursat (Eds.). Advances in Artificial Life, ECAL 2011: Proceedings of the Eleventh European Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems (pp. 101-108). Heidelberg: MIT Press. doi> full text>2011.
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Pruning reservoirs with random static projections. Machine Learning for Signal Processing (MLSP), 2010 IEEE International Workshop on (pp. 250-255).
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Extending reservoir computing with random static projections: a hybrid between extreme learning and RC.2010.
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Pruning reservoirs with random static projections.2010.
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A Low Frequency Electromagnetic Probe for Detection of Corrosion in Steel-Reinforced Concrete. In M. Grantham & C. Majorana (Eds.). Concrete Solutions (pp. 446-451). CRC Press.2009.
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