Dr. Michael Lones

I am an Associate Professor in the School of Mathematical and Computer Sciences, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh. My research focuses on machine learning and optimisation, including the development of new methods, applied work in medicine, biology and security, and broader issues of reproducibility. I am a member of the Bio-inspired Computing and Machine Learning, ML-Health, and Lab for AI Verification research groups, and the Edinburgh Centre for Robotics. You can find my thoughts on wider topics in computer science at my Fetch Decode Execute substack.

Brief biography

  • Associate Professor, Heriot-Watt University, 2017-
  • Assistant Professor, Heriot-Watt University, 2013-2017
  • Lecturer, Department of Electronics, University of York, 2013
  • Research Associate/Fellow, University of York, 2005-2013
  • ERCIM Research Fellow, Faculty of Medicine, NTNU, 2004-2005
  • PhD Student, University of York, 1999-2003

Research interests

  • Evolutionary algorithms, genetic programming, metaheuristics
  • Predictive modelling, knowledge discovery, time series analysis
  • Disease diagnosis and monitoring, disease modelling
  • Biochemical networks, genetic regulatory networks
  • Robotic control, locomotion, distributed signal processing
  • Non-standard computing, artificial life, dynamical systems

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