Older projects
Progress reports from my PhD
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...
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
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