Older projects

Progress reports from my PhD

• RSMG 1 research abstract, Oct 2009.
• RSMG 2 progress report, April 2010.
• RSMG 3 thesis proposal, August 2010.
• RSMG 4 progress report, March 2011.
• RSMG 5 progress report, January 2012.
• RSMG 6 progress report, September 2012.

Things I'm still quite proud of...

These were all completed during my time as an undergraduate at University, and may be useful or interesting to someone.

• PopRacer: Evolving the ability to race in virtual cars with neural networks
  • Group project, now part of the Poplog SimAgent toolkit, with Mike Brook, Pete Zeidman, Francis Noumbi, Damien Clarke, and Anushka Gunawardana.
• Evolving strategies for prediction of sporting fixtures
  • Mini-project on which the MSc thesis was based.
• Artificial creativity: automated Pavé jewellery design
  • Masters project looking at methods and techniques for creating aesthetic jewellery designs automatically.
• Intelligent robotics | Team report
  • Design and creation of an intelligent autonomous robot which identifies and collects objects in an arena. With Mike Brook and Pete Zeidman.
• Visualisation of tropical cyclones
  • Techniques and research used in the fields of computer visualisation for analysing hurricanes. With Mike Brook.

Smaller pieces of undergraduate / MSc university work

• Training a neural network
  • Selecting the right parameters, learning rate mechanism, and other features of the network for a given data set.
  • Finding optimal learning rate and momentum values for neural network training
• Research skills
  • How to search online indexes to theses and papers, rather than simply relying on Google.
• Intelligent data analysis techniques
  • Using Principal Component Analysis, Self-Organising Maps, and vector plotting to analyse a data set. With Richard Tyson, John Pappin, and Wayne.
• The future of mobile technology -- and the rise of GPS
  • An essay pondering the future of pervasive mobile technology and the role of GPS in our society.
• Designed in two minutes?
  • Group Human-Computer Interaction blog critiquing usability in the world around us. With Paul Dann, Francis Noumbi, Natalie Cryan, and Lucy.
• Visual impairment assistant
  • Group Human-Computer Interaction project to design a digital assistance device for blind and partially-sighted users. With Dan Trimm and Jonathan Smith.
• Natural language processing system for a robot in a hazardous environment