ALAR
The Artificial Life and Adaptive Robotics Laboratory

Faculty

• Prof. Hussein A. Abbass [lab profile], Lab Director.
• Dr. David Cornforth [lab profile], Senior Lecturer.
• Dr Daryl Essam [lab profile], Senior Lecturer.
• Dr Chris Lokan [lab profile], Senior Lecturer.
• Dr Robert Stocker [lab profile], Senior Lecturer.

Research staff

• Mr. Sameer Alam [lab profile], PhD Candidate (Mar 2005 - March 2008 thesis under examination), Research Fellow (2008 - ), Evolving Complexity towards Risk: A Massive Scenario Generation Approach for Evaluating Advanced Air Traffic Management Concepts.
• Dr Lam Thu Bui [lab profile], Ex PhD Candidate (Jul 2004 - July 2007), Research Fellow (2007 - ), PhD Thesis: The Role of Explicit Niching And Communication Messages in Distributed Evolutionary Multi-Objective Optimization.
• Ms Hai Huong (Helen) Dam [lab profile], PhD Candidate (Jul 2004 - Jan 2008 thesis under examination), Software Engineer (2008 - ), PhD Thesis: Distributed stream data mining using genetics based machine learning techniques.
• Dr Omar Soliman [lab profile], Egyptian Governemnet Visiting Fellow (Jul 2006 - Jul 2007). Evolutionary computation.
• Dr James Whitacre [lab profile], Research Fellow (2007 - )

Support staff

• Mr Jiangjun Tang [lab profile], Software Developer.
• Mr Qi Fan [lab profile], Software Developer.

Students

• Mr Bruno Barbosa [lab profile], Brizilian's Government Visiting PhD Student (Jan 2008 - Jan 2009). Multiobjective ensemble learning
• Mr Khanh Bui [lab profile], Masters by Research (on leave), Multi-agent learning classifier systems for data mining.
• Mr Kamran Shafi [lab profile], PhD Candidate (Mar 2005 - ), Learning classifier systems for network intrusion detection.
• Mr Henrik Edsparr [lab profile], Sweden Government Visiting Masters Student (Sep 2007 - Mar 2008).

Past Members

• Ms Jennifer Badham [lab profile], PhD Candidate (Mar 2003 - Dec 2007, thesis under examination), Role of social network properties on the impact of direct contact epidemics.
• Dr. Minh Ha Nguyen [lab profile], PhD Candidate (2002-2006), Research Fellow (2006 - 2007). PhD Thesis: Coevolutionary mixture of experts: a neuro ensemble approach for automatic decomposition of classification problems.
• Mr Pornthep Rojanavasu [lab profile], Thai's Government Visiting PhD Student (Sep 2006 - Sep 2007). Distributed learning classifier systems.
• Mr Ang Yang [lab profile], PhD Candidate (Jul 2003 - 2006), Research Associate (Jul 2006 - Feb 2007). PhD Thesis: A networked multi-agent combat model: emergence explained.
• Dr Yubin Yang [lab profile], Research Fellow (Jan 2006 - Dec 2006), Stream networked data mining.
• Dr Yin Shan [lab profile], PhD Candidate (2002 - 2005), Research Fellow (Mar 2005 - Mar 2006). PhD Thesis: Program distribution estimation with grammar models.
• Dr Jason Teo [lab profile], Doctoral Candidate (2002-2004). PhD Thesis: Pareto multi-objective evolution of legged embodied organisms.