Research Students
During my tenure at Kent, I have had the privilege of supervising several brilliant research students, whose names appear below and in the "Past Research Students" section.
- Piotr Sawicki - PhD student
- Peter Clapham - PhD student
- Theophile Champion - PhD student at the University of Birmingham (Howard Bowman main supervisor)
- Olivier Belan - PhD student
- Joshua Sylvester - PhD student (Rogerio de Lemos main supervisor)
- Simona Paraskevopoulou - MSc by Research
- Aidin Kazempour - PhD student
- Andrew Swinn - PhD student
- Cosmo De Bonis-Campbell - PhD student (Eleni Matechou main supervisor)
Past Research Students
- Lee Harris, PhD, 2025, now KTP Research Associate at the University of Kent
Thesis title: Exploring Feedforward Neural Network Explainability Using The Layerwise Relevance Propagation Framework - Lisa Bonheme, PhD, 2023, now Postdoctoral Researcher at the World Health Organisation
Thesis title: The Polarised Regime of Variational Autoencoders - Farhana Ferdousi Liza, PhD, 2019, now Lecturer at the University of East Anglia
Thesis title: Improving Training of Deep Neural Network Sequence Models - Adrian Wesek, MSc by Research, 2019, now Research Assistant at Imperial College London
Thesis title: A Comprehensive Study of State-of-the-Art Word Embedding Algorithms for Natural Language Generation
Teaching
- Machine Learning Algorithms - COMP6004 with Christos Efstratiou
- Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery - COMP7004 with Alex Freitas
- Natural Language Processing - COMP6028 with Zhongtian Sun
Past Teaching
- Cognitive Neural Networks - COMP6360 and COMP8360
- Solving Problems with Data - CO584
- Concurrency and Parallelism - CO890
- Human Computer Interaction - CO328
Pastoral and Admin Roles
- Module convenor for the final year undergraduate projects: Group Project COMP6000 and Research Project COMP6200 (since 2017)
- Programme director for the Year in Computing Programme (since 2020)
- Module convenor for the Year in Computing project COMP5800 (2020-2023)
Code
- Incremental Policy Iteration for POMDPs
- Matrix Toolkits for Java optimised for MDPs
- Isomorph-free Branch and Bound Search for Finite State Controllers
- WEB-SNAP: POMDP-based Knowledge Engineering for Assistive Systems
- Evolutionary Learning of Decision Trees
Academic Genealogy
A fairly deep tree of my academic ancestors is here.