RAD People
Academic Staff
Research Associates
Dr. Hassan Mahmud
PhD students
Stefano Albrecht - Ad hoc coordination in multiagent systems
Majd Hawasly - Robust strategic decision making within multi-robot problems (motivated by robotic soccer domain)
Alesis Novik - Collective computation approaches to models of nonstationary dynamics (motivated by electronic markets)
Andrew Robinson - Models of interactive decision making and connections to human cognition
(Currently in the MRes year of the NeuroInformatics Doctoral Training Programme)
Benjamin S. Rosman - Multi-task representations and learning for policy reuse
Efstathios Vafeias - Learning intention-based models of activity
Aris Valtazanos - Learning to shape interactive decision making (in robotic soccer and human-robot interaction)
BSc/MInf students
Petar Valentinov Ivanov - Localization for RoboCup SPL team
Flavius Popescu - Coordination mechanisms for multi-robot systems in uncertain environments
Seyed Behzad Tabibian - Coordination mechanisms for multi-robot systems in uncertain environments (for RoboCup)
J Austin Tobin - Bipedal locomotion engine for RoboCup SPL team
Sean Wilson - 'Kick engine' for RoboCup SPL team
Daniel Wren - Vision for RoboCup SPL team
Visitors
Dr. Matteo Leonetti - Planning and learning in non-Markovian domains
(from Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica, Sapienza Università di Roma)
Alumni
PhD students
- Dr. Ioannis Havoutis - Motion planning and reactive control on learnt skill manifolds
(Current Position: Postdoctoral Research Associate, Dept. of Advanced Robotics, Italian Institute of Technology) - Dr. Thomas Larkworthy - Motion planning for self-reconfiguring robots
MSc students
- Stefano Albrecht (2011) - Comparison of multiagent learning algorithms in ad hoc teams
- Jayant Bansal (2011) - Multi-robot control with topology specifications: An empirical study
- Nicholas Birnie (2011) - Multiagent sequential decision making in nonstationary environments
- Anthony Cruickshank (2011) - The behaviour of an artificial market with adaptive agents under different conditions
- Alesis Novik (2011) - Regime switching models for markets
- Thomas Joyce (2010), Low level embodied mathematical cognition and the beginnings of representation (Co-supervised with Alison Pease and Alan Smaill)
- Jonathan Millin (2010) - In search of structure: Unsupervised learning in foreign exchange
- Sheng Qin (2010) - Regime switching portfolio allocation algorithm
- Alex Svanevik (2010), The role of metaphor and embodiment in the development of mathematical concepts: A computational approach
(Co-supervised with Alison Pease and Alan Smaill)
[Informatics Prize for Outstanding MSc Project] - Efstathios Vafeias (2010) - Where is my humanoid? Vision-based localization
- Benjamin Saul Rosman (2009) - Game theoretic procedures for learning structured strategies from demonstration
[Jim Howe Prize for Outstanding MSc (Artificial Intelligence) Student] - Richard Clossick (2008) - Learning a template based running strategy for a humanoid robot
- Thomas George Elder (2008) - Creating algorithmic traders with hierarchical reinforcement learning
[Informatics Prize for Outstanding MSc (Computer Science) Student] - Sandhya Prabhakaran (2008) - Multi-scale, reactive motion planning with deformable linear objects
Short video describing this work.
UG students
- Georgi Gochev (2011) - Skill learning from interactions with multiple opponents
- Seyed Mohammadali Eslami (2009) - Evolving robust control strategies for a simulated robot
[Jim Howe Prize (AI UG) and B.Eng.(AI & SE) Class Medal] - Jay Kotak (2009) - Visual tracking and data acquisition system for team sports
Visitors
- Thomas McGuire (2010/11) - Real time vision and localization for the Nao humanoid robot
(from Universität Siegen, Germany)
