Curriculum Vitae

A more detailed cv is available here.

Professional Experience

2006- Aston University

  • 2015 - 2016 Deputy Head of Computer Science
  • 2013 - Senior Lecturer in Computer Science
  • 2006 - 2013 Lecturer in Computer Science

2001-2006 Imperial College London
Research Assistant, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Intelligent Systems and Networks Section.

April-Sept. 2000 and June-Sept. 1999 J.P.Morgan Investment Management
Industrial Placements as a Software Analyst

Education

2001-2005 Imperial College London
PhD in Intelligent Systems

1997-2001 Imperial College London
MEng Computing

2006-2007 Aston University
Certificate in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education

Indicative research-related activities

  • - Member of the 'pool of experts' for FET-OPEN, reviewing proposals and participating in review panels
  • - Programme and Senior Programme Committee member for the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI).
  • - Programme and Senior Programme Committee member for the International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS).
  • - Reviewer for J. of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, J. of Artificial Intelligence Research, ACM Trans. on Intelligent Systems and Technology, IEEE Trans. on Systems, Man and Cybernetics Part B, IEEE Trans. on Multimedia, Routledge Research.
  • - Several Invited talks and Seminars

Teaching Experience

2006- Aston University

  • - Teaching Java and Operating Systems for 2nd year and Multi-Agent Systems for final year students.
  • - Year-tutor for 2nd year combined honours undergraduates.
  • - Supervision of masters, individual and group projects. A large number of the students whose projects I have supervised won the final year project prize or the Computer Science Prize–about one student each year (M. Garlick, M. Winsper, I. Macgillivray, J. Holyhead, A. Clark, J. Taylor, N. Mountford, Z. Chobanov).
  • - PhD student supervision (R. Talla Kuate, M. Winsper - at Llamasoft Supply Chain Design, M. Garlick -ATOS and Big Sky Blue)