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BIOMIMETICS RESEARCH AT UNIVERSITY COLLEGE
LONDON |
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Our aim is to understand and exploit fundamental computation within biology. |
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Our focus is evolutionary, developmental, swarming and other biologically-inspired computation. |
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The applications of the research include design, robot control, architecture, fraud detection, materials science, art, music composition, recommender systems, and models for biologists. |
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To find out more, you might like to read some of these. To come to seminars from us and people
like us, join our reading group |
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CURRENT RESEARCHERS: |
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Dr
Peter Bentley, Navneet Bhalla, Tom
Deithe, Boonserm Kaewkamnerdpong (Nina), Daniel
Hulme, Erwan Le Martelot, David
Malkin, Hooman Shayani.
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COLLABORATORS AND FUNDERS: |
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Dr Uwe
Aickelin, Malcolm Galloway, Prof
Christian Jacob, Dr. Beau Lotto, Dr.
Julian Miller, Dr. Mark Miodownik, Gordana
Novakovic, Prof John Shawe-Taylor, Prof.
Susan Stepney, Dr. Jon Timmis, Prof. Andy Tyrrell, Prof. Lewis Wolpert
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EPSRC, Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), European Office for Aerospace Research and Development (EOARD), USAF, BAE Systems, Sandia National Laboratories, The UK Arts Council, Glassworks Ltd. |
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CURRENT PROJECTS |
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Developing Systemic Computation – a novel model and architecture of computation based on biological principles. Also developing a visualization of biological processes implemented in SC. Peter Bentley, Erwan Le Martelot, Beau Lotto |
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Evolutionary developmental spiking neural networks implemented in hardware. Hooman Shayani, Peter Bentley, Andy Tyrrell. |
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Physical self-assembling structures capable of computation. Navneet Bhalla, Peter Bentley, Christian Jacob, Marco Dorigo. |
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Development of novel machine learning techniques to the analysis of music and brain imaging data on music cognition. Tom Diethe, John Shawe-Taylor, and many others… |
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Simulating nanorobot control using swarm intelligence. Boonserm Kaewkamnerdpong, Peter Bentley. |
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Investigating effects of hyperdimensional bypass on evolvability of hierarchical complex systems. David Malkin, Beau Lotto, Peter Bentley. |
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Fugue (previously Algorithmica) - an immersive virtual reality visualisation and artwork of an artificial immune system. Gordana Novakovic, Peter Bentley, Rainer Linz and Tony Ruto. |
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PREVIOUS RESEARCHERS: |
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David
Basanta, Ramona Behravan, Tim
Gordon, Siavash Haroun Mahdavi, Jungwon
Kim, Sanjeev Kumar, Supiya
Ujjin, Udi Schlessinger.
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SOME PREVIOUS PROJECTS |
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3 year EPSRC Adventure Fund project on the Danger Theory in Immune Systems. UCL staff: Dr Jungwon Kim and Dr Peter J. Bentley. Click here for more details. |
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Evolving Hierarchical Visually Guided Neural Network Agents to Investigate Complex Interactions. Udi Schlessinger, Peter Bentley, Beau Lotto. |
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MOBIUS: Modelling Biology Using Smart materials. A 3-year project funded by EOARD. |
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Microstructure extrapolation with evolutionary algorithms (by David Basanta and with Mark Miodownik). |
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Biological modeling for post production (by Ramona Behravan). |
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Use of evolution and development for electronic circuit design (by Tim Gordon). |
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Shape-shifter robotics (by Siavash Mahdavi and with Mark Miodownik). |
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Computational Development - an investigation of evolving developmental processes (by Sanjeev Kumar and the support of Lewis Wolpert). |
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Use of evolution and swarming algorithms for a Lifestyle Recommender System (by Supiya Ujjin). |
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Neuropathology fractal dimensions - an automatic analysis of brain biopsy images by Malcolm Galloway with Muhammad Siddiq Hassan, Jungwon Kim, Eric Longequel. |
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