About Me... Michael Lones Welcome   //  About Me  //  Publications  //  People  //  Conference List  //  Lore  // Contact Interests Metaheuristics: evolutionary algorithms, genetic programming, swarm intelligence Data mining: predictive modelling, knowledge discovery, time series analysis, ensemble methods Medical informatics: disease diagnosis and monitoring, disease modelling Systems biology: computational behaviour of biochemical networks, control of regulatory networks Bioinformatics: discovering patterns in biosequences Robotics: control, locomotion, distributed signal processing Other: non-standard computing, artificial life, dynamical systems Non-work: jazz, travel, mountains, languages, being a slave to my cats Other Websites About Me Official Heriot-Watt staff page (rather dull) Pure (institutional research repository) ResearchGate Google Scholar ORCID (ID: 0000-0002-2745-9896) Scopus LinkedIn Brief Biography Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, Heriot-Watt University, 2013-present. Lecturer (fixed-term), Department of Electronics, University of York, 2013. Research Fellow, Department of Electronics, University of York, 2008-2013. Research Associate, Department of Electronics, University of York, 2005-2008. ERCIM Research Fellow, Faculty of Medicine, NTNU, 2004-2005. PhD Student, Department of Electronics, University of York, 1999-2003. Undergraduate, Department of Computer Science, University of York, 1995-1999. Teaching Activities First year director of studies Biologically-Inspired Computation (F21BC) Software Development 2 (F27SB) Advanced Software Engineering (F21AS) Professional Activities Associate Editor, BioSystems, 2015-present. Editorial Board, Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines, 2016-present. EPSRC Associate College member, 2016-present. IEEE Senior Member 2010-present, Member 2001-2010. Member, IEEE Technical Committee on Bioinformatics and Bioengineering, 2009-present. Scottish Crucible 2014 (selective programme for "Scotland's future research leaders") Conference Committees Programme Chair, 10th International Conference on Information Processing in Cells and Tissues, IPCAT 2015. Organising Committee member, IEEE CIBCB 2015. Bioinformatics special session organiser, WCCI 2014, CEC 2013, WCCI 2012, CEC 2011, WCCI 2010. Organiser, Frontiers of Natural Computing workshop, September 2012. Programme Chair, 9th International Conference on Information Processing in Cells and Tissues, IPCAT 2012. Publicity Chair, International Conference on Evolvable Systems (ICES) 2010. Chair, Special Session on Artificial Biochemical Networks, CEC 2009. Organising Committee member, Information Processing in Cells and Tissues, IPCAT 2005. Programme committee member for ALife, CEC, CIBCB, ECAL, EvoStar, GECCO, IPCAT and PPSN. These web pages use Google Analytics to track visits. See Privacy Statement. © Michael Lones 2005-2016. Page last updated 12th May, 2017.