Student Dissertation and Thesis Supervisions

Key:

AI

Artificial Intelligence

AIA

Advanced Internet Applications

BIM

Business Information Management

CDT

Centre for Doctoral Training

CmSt

Combined Studies

CS

Computer Science

CSM

Computer Systems Management

CSys

Computer Systems

C&E

Computing and Electronics

DMIS

Distributed and Multimedia Information Systems

DS

Data Science

DSE

Digital Systems Engineering

HCI

Human Computer Interaction

IMM

Interactive Multimedia

IntSys

Intelligent Systems

IS

Information Systems

ISE

Information Systems Engineering

IT

Information Technology

KBS

Knowledge Based Systems

MCS

Mathematics and Computer Science

PEPM

Production Engineering and Production Management

RAIS

Robotics, Autonomous and Interactive Systems

RAS

Robotics and Autonomous Systems

SE

Software Engineering

SLI

System Level Integration

1988 Production Engineering and Production Managament, University of Nottingham

MEng

PEPM

Bower, Andrew

Expert System for Lighting

BEng

PEPM

Ratcliffe, Stephen

Expert System for Robot Safety

BEng

PEPM

Roth, Gretchen

Flow-Chart Production System

1989 Computer Science, Heriot-Watt University

BSc

CS

Fredriksen, Stig

MLP(BP) ANN & Character Recognition

BSc

CS

Wallace, Iain

Hopfield ANN & Travelling Salesman (TSP)

BSc

CS

Williamson, Matthew

Prolog Truth Maintenance System

1990

BSc

CS

Bryn, Rolf

Fractals & Music & Fourier & Verhulst

BSc

CS

Ezady, Behrooz

CAD & Functional Design (Medland)

BSc

CS

Good, (Simon) Nick

CAD & SMQL with CAM-X

BSc

CS

Thirkell, Lawrence

IAC & MLP(BP) ANNs & Style Analysis

MSc

KBS

Husmo, Reidar

IAC & MLP(BP) ANNs & Knowledge Extract.

1991

BSc

CS

Craig, Steven

Fractals & Music & MIDI & Julia Zooming

BSc

CS

Fowler, David

Fractals & Music & Koch Curves

BSc

CS

Jeffrey, Stephen

Boltzmann ANN & Semantic Association

BSc

CS

Roberts, Steven

CAD & Drawing Frames with AutoCAD

(Collab. GEC Ferranti Defence Systems)

BSc

CS

Thomassen, Thore

Harmony ANN & Transputer & Character Rec.

MSc

KBS

Leake, Frank

Genetic Algorithms & Transputer & TSP

MSc

KBS

Myatt, Glenn

MLP(BP) ANN & KBS for Music Composition

(Collab. Dept. of Music, York University)

MSc

KBS

Tinklin, Teresa

Hopfield & MLP(BP) ANNs & Semantic Ass.

1992

BSc

CS

Foreman, Angus

WISARD ANN & Leaf Recognition

BEng

ISE

Herries, Andrew

BT Simulation & Stafford Beer's VSM

(Collab. Systems Research, BT Research Labs)

BSc

CS

Pettersen, Nils

Fractals & MIDI & Polyphonic Music

MSc

HCI

MacDonald, Alan

Capacity Planning

(Collab. McSoftware Ltd & Ortak Jewellery)

MSc

KBS

Parsons, John

CAD & Film Animation with AutoCAD

1993 Computing and Electrical Engineering, Heriot-Watt University

BSc

CS

Adams, Mark

MLP(BP) ANN & Genetic Algorithms

BSc

CS

Dunn, Scott

MLP(BP) ANN & Vehicle Control & Critique

BSc

CS

Irving, Kenneth

MLP(BP) ANN & Visual Search & Modelling

BSc

CS

Ryan, Mark

Neocognitron ANN & Character Recognition

BSc

CS

Spalding, David

Fractals & MIDI & Musical Structure

MSc

KBS

Field, Simon

Assoc. Memory & Neuro. Plausibility

MSc

KBS

Tomlinson, Chris

Assoc. Memory & Neuro. Plausibility

PhD

Thirkell, Lawrence

An Artificial Neural Network Approach to Authorship Determination

1994

BSc

CS

Pedersen, Ingar

MLP(BP) ANN & Speech Recog. & Sig. Proc.

MSc

KBS

Belding, Adam

MLP(BP) ANNs & Chord Recognition

MSc

KBS

Brodie-Smith, Colin

Kohonen ANN & Psychiatric Diagnosis

MSc

KBS

Gamst, Hans

MLP(BP) ANN & Multiple-Image Processing

MSc

KBS

McAskie, Gill

Hopfield ANN, Stoch./MFT Anneal. & Timetab.

MSc

KBS

Perez, Belen

Kohonen ANN & Visual Search & Modelling

1995

BSc

CS

Pedersen, Svein-Hugo

BAM ANN & Multiple-Map Creation/Retrieval

BSc

CS

Tan, Eng Chin

MLP(BP) ANN & AN-S & Economic Modelling

MSc

KBS

Duckett, Tom

Architectural Design Aid

(ERASMUS: University of Karlsruhe, Germany)

MSc

DSE

Fenwick, John

Fuzzy Logic & Fuzzy Control

MSc

KBS

Nicoll, David

Hopfield ANN & MLP(BP) ANN & Arith. Eval.

MSc

KBS

Williams, Marcus

MLP(BP) ANN & Knowledge Extraction

1996

BSc

CS

Boon, Pauline

Fuzzy MLP(BP) ANN & Environment Control

BSc

CS

Groetterud, Jon

MLP(BP) ANN & Vehicle Control

BSc

CS

Kent, Richard

Digital Audio Processing

(Young Software Engineer of the Year 1996)

BSc

CS

Watt, Tracey

Assoc. Memory & Neuro. Plausibility

BSc

CS

Westwater, David

BAM ANN & Shape Recognition

MSc

KBS

Forster, Peter

MLP(Compet.) ANN & Shape Recog./Tracking

PGD

HCI

Madden, Paul

Cricket Statistics Processing

1997

BSc

CS

Beber, Philip

MLP ANN & Hidden Markov & Speech Recog.

BSc

CS

Hunter, Jamie

CAD & Timber Kit Models

BSc

CS

Nordskag, Magne

MLP, Elman, Jordan ANNs & Speech Recog.

BSc

CS

Roy, Jonathan

Hopfield & MLP(BP) ANNs & Hieroglyphs

BSc

CS

Thomson, David

WWW(HTML) & Text to Speech Synthesis

1998

Exchange

Kapteijns, Guy

Monotic ANNs & Economic Models

(Visiting from Tilburg University, Netherlands)

BEng

C&E

Blair, Gary

Competitive ANNs & Classifying Footy Players

BSc

CS

Browning, Alan

Assoc. Memory & Neuro. Plausibility

BSc

CS

Haga, Jo

Isolation & Localisation of Speech

BSc

CS

Hellstrom, Thomas

Elman, Jordan ANNs & OBX Forecasting

BSc

CS

Meek, Stuart

MLP(BP) ANN & FTSE 100 Forecasting

BSc

CmSt

Okern, Pal

Elman ANN & S&P500 & Stock Forecasting

MSc

IT

Hughes, Matthew

Game Playing & Incremental Learning

MSc

DMIS

Rimmington, Paul

MLP(BP) ANN & Cryptography

1999

BSc

CS

Christie, Ross

WWW & Eye Tests

MSc

IT

Hall, Lesley

Fractals & Synthesised Speech

2000

BSc

CS

Gorry, Ben

Model of the Common Earthworm

BSc

CS

Shek, Ken

CAD & Generating OpenGL Code

BSc

CS

Skomedal, Torkjell

Fractals & Music Composition

BSc

CS

Walsh, Cormac

Fractals & Music Composition

MSc

IT

Edwards, Dave

Genetic Algorithms & Horse Race Forecasting

MSc

IT

Ridley, Joss

Fractals & Music Composition

MSc

IT

Thompson, Craig

WWW & Administration Systems

2001

BSc

CS

Cunningham-Dickie, Mark

Public & Corporate Trust of eCommerce

BEng

C&E

Smith, Alasdair

Fractals & Helicopter Simulator

MSc

IT

Pennycook, Gavin

Genetic Algorithms & Music Composition

MSc

IMM

Viorres, Nikos

Game Simulator for Association Football

2002

BSc

CS

Bradley, Tony

MLP(BP) ANN & ARMD

BSc

CS

Griffiths, Richard

WWW(.Net) & Administration Systems

BEng

ISE

Ratsch, Philip

ANN & Music Classification

BEng

C&E

Skaanes, Nils

MLP(BP) ANN & Fourier Transforms

BEng

C&E

Strom-Gundersen, Jorgen

MLP(BP) ANN & Vehicle Recog. from Radar

MSc

SLI

Goikoetxea Yanci, Asier

CMAC ANN on a Chip

PhD

Hamilton, Kelvin

An Integrated Diagnostic Architecture for Autonomous Robots

2003 Mathematical and Computer Sciences, Heriot-Watt University

Exchange

Peropadre, Nacho

MLP(BP) ANN & AN-S & Emotion Recog.

(ERASMUS: Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain)

BSc

CS

Boyle, Stephanie

WWW & Accessibility

BSc

CS

Iversen, Alex

Nitric Oxide Emulation & Neuro. Plausibility

BSc

CS

Tolhurst, Matthew

MLP(BP) ANN & Pugmark Classification

BSc

CS

Unander, (Edith) Helene

MLP(BP) ANN & Breast Cancer Genealogies

MEng

C&E

Kjetil Raaen, Bard Selander, Gjermund Skobba, Magne Zachrisen

Group Project: AQUARIUM - Animated simulation engine for autonomous underwater vehicles at the seabed

MSc

IT

Green, Ross

Genetic Algorithms & Financial Forecasting

MSc

IT

Kennedy, John

MLP(BP) ANN & Spectral Star Classification

MSc

IT

Nicolosi, Maya

ANNs & Marine Survey Data Analysis

2004

BSc

CS

Ong, Tyn

Kohonen ANN & Data Mining & WWW

BSc

CmSt

Servis, Konstantinos

Fractals & Image Compression

BSc

CS

Thompson, Christopher

WWW & Multi-User Diary Systems

BSc

CS

Whyte, Brian

ANNs & Handwritten Character Recognition

MSc

IT

Ge Er, De Li

ANNs & Graphics & 3D Head Animation

MSc

IT

Riddoch, Gillian

ANNs & Speech Analysis & Emotion Detection (Collab. Affective Media Ltd)

MSc

IT

Stevenson, Neil

Mobile Robot & Goal Formation & Execution

PhD

Jing, Yanguo

A Model Based Intelligent Interface Agent Architecture

2005

MEng

SE

Crespin, Louis

Masterclass: Artificial Immune Systems (AIS)

MEng

SE

McBurney, Sarah

Masterclass: Computer Crime

MEng

SE

McBurney, Sarah

Fractals & Music Composition

BSc

CS

McKenna, Cathy

WWW & Administration Systems

BSc

IT

Monaghan, Mark

eLife: Electronic Voting Systems

BSc

IT

O’Connell, Eimear

eLife: Spam & Direct Marketing

BSc

IT

Robertson, Louise

eLife: eBay & The Supplier Society

BSc

IT

Roulston, Ruth

eLife: WWW & Accessibility Issues

BSc

CS

Shields, Richard

AIS & Computer Security

BSc

IT

Watson, Julia

eLife: Computer Mediated Communication

MSc

IT

Mhatre, Parnil

Frequency based models of neuronal networks

MSc

DMIS

Mouzakitis, Nikos

K-Nearest-Neighbour Classifier & MLP ANN & Text Classification

MSc

DMIS

Papakonstantopoulos, Ioannis

Bayesian Classifier& Kohonen ANN & Spam Detection

2006

Exchange

Aidelsberg, Fabrice

Multiploid Genetic Algorithms and Scheduling

BSc

IT

Abdullah, Fozia

eLife: Chat Room Behaviours & Psychology

MEng

SE

Aubell, Mats

Masterclass: Swarm Intelligence

BSc

IT

Cook, Robert

eLife: Real-World Value of Virtual Objects

MEng

SE

Currie, Pamela

Masterclass: Biometrics

BEng

C&E

Melo, Yuri

Robotic Head Controller - Remote Interface

BSc

IT

Riddall, Matthew

eLife: eShopping & High Street Stores

BSc

IT

Strudwick, David

eLife: Home Working

MEng

SE

Sunde, Lars

Robotic Head Controller - Real-Time Linux

BSc

CS

Williamson, Ross

Assoc. Memory & Neuro. Plausibility

MSc

IT

Arias Terra, Luis

Data Mining and Census Data

MSc

IT

Kranis, Andreas

Data Mining and Genome Comparison

PhD

Mohamad, MohdMurtadha

Foraging Ant Motion Planning for Articulated Robots

2007

BSc

IT

Ali, Akbar

eLife: Impact of future HCI technologies

BSc

IT

Bell, Alistair

eLife: Surveillance and Privacy

MEng

SE

Birse, Adam

Masterclass: Swarm Intelligence

BSc

IT

Butt, Mohammed

eLife: Computer Games and Reaction Times

MEng

SE

Maxwell, Iain

Masterclass: Voice Identification Biometrics

MEng

SE

McMichael, Adrian

Masterclass: Speckled Computing

PhD

Butt, Saira

Digital Image Processing and Artificial Neural Networks in Screening for Age Related Macular Degeneration

PhD

Edwards, Dave

Creative Design of Evolutionary Neural Networks

PhD

Iversen, Alex

Novelty Detection by Auto-association

with application to Radio Communication

Signal Recognition

2008

BSc

IT

Dick, Jonathan

eLife: ICT issues in the Health Sector

BSc

IT

Gurr, David

eLife: Effectiveness of ICT use in Education

BSc

MCS

Harper, David

Web-Based Multi-Player Role Playing Game

BSc

IT

McQue, David

eLife: Impact of Personalisation on Privacy

BSc

IT

Norel-Wilson, Scott

eLife: Responsibility and Internet Security

BSc

IT

Oliver, Greig

eLife: Vulnerability to Internet Threats

MEng

SE

Thompson, Andrew

Masterclass: Spiking Neural Networks

MSc

IntSys

Isa, Norulhidayah

AIS & Clonal Selection & Shape Recognition

2009

BSc

IT

Adair, Kristy

eLife: Information Security & Data Loss

BSc

IT

Campbell, Craig

eLife: eDemocracy and Potential Processes

BSc

IS

Panther, Alan

eLife: Disclosures on Social Networking Sites

BSc

IS

Todd, Calum

eLife: Virtual Currencies in Online Games

MSc

CSM

Vasanth, Infant Rosario

ANNs & Document Classification

MSc

AI

Wang, Yufan

ANNs & Neural Transmitters & Emotions

2010

MEng

SE

Skillen, Patrick

Open Source SCADA System

MEng

SE

Richard Addison, Fraser Blackmun, Gordon Govan, Liam Rendall, Jack Talbot, Scott Watson, Scott Wilson

Group Project: PERSIST - Integrating Personal Smart Spaces with a reconfigurable room in a virtual world

MSc

IT

Al-Khudairy, Bashar

Genetic Algorithms & Group Formation

MSc

AI

Huertas, Maria

AIS & Breast Cancer Diagnosis

2011

BSc

IS

Buchan, Seonaid

eLife: Privacy & Personal Data & Attitudes

BSc

CS

Carson, Scott

Search & Approach Behaviour & Nao Robots (with Paul Crook)

BSc

IS

Kokolakis, Marios

eLife: Persuasive Techniques & Technologies

MSc

IT

Mavriki, Anna

Swarm Behaviour & e-Puck Robots (with Patricia Vargas)

PhD

Gallacher, Sarah

Learning Preferences for Personalisation in a Pervasive Environment

2012

BSc

CS

Papangelis, Dimitris

Human-Robot Interaction & Nao Robot Torso (with Patricia Vargas)

MSc

AI

Carre, Guillaume

Nao Robot & Visually Impaired & Guide Dog (with Patricia Vargas)

2013

BSc

IS

Ahmeti, Fitim

eLife: Social Media & Student Performance

MEng

SE

Deacon, Lewis

Mobile App for Student Timetabling

MEng

SE

Dickson, Bryce

Masterclass: Introduction to ROS

BSc

CS

Whyte, Stuart

Mobile App for Room Availability

MEng

SE

Jakub Chlanda, Bryce Dickson, Craig Matear, Jamie Spence, David Sturrock

Group Project: SOCIETIES - Developing social pervasive third party services for Community Smart Spaces

MSc

AIA

Mimtsoudis, Ioannis

Mobile App for Asking Questions in Lectures

2014

MEng

SE

Deacon, Lewis

Masterclass: Biometrics

MEng

SE

Gehrmann, Leif

Crowdsourced Topographic Mapping

MEng

SE

Law, John (Tsz Chun)

Masterclass: C++11 in comparison to C++98

BSc

CS

Staramos, Nikolaos

Mobile App for Money Management Book (with author Sarah Oliver)

2015

BSc

CS

Calderwood, Mark

Mobile App for Football Fans (with Dungannon Swifts FC)

BSc

CS

Kadzys, Mindaugas

Evolutionary ANNs & Inverted Pendulum

MSc

IT

Mueller, Vitali

ANNs, SVMs, Logistic Regression & Finance

MSc

IT

Savva, Georgios

ANNs & Abdominal Pain Diagnosis (with Christoforos Charalambous & Harris Papadopoulos, Frederick University, Cyprus)

MSc

BIM

Wang, Shuhao

Cloud Computing Platform Comparison

PhD

Papadopoulou, Eliza

Personalised Privacy in Pervasive and Ubiquitous Systems

2016

MSc

RAS

Andrecki, Marian

Sensor Networks & Load Balancing

MSc

DS

Kasasi, Glory

Data Mining & Financial Regulation

MSc

DS

Paganos, Theofilos

Machine Learning & Football Prediction

2017

BSc

CS

Askew, Mark

Machine Learning & Blackjack Player

BSc

IS

Shek, Justin

Information Systems & Distributed Stakeholders

MSc

DS

Chavez, Carlos

Ensemble Machine Learning for Time-Series Forecasting

MSc

BIM

Ramella German, Alice

Sustainability in Information System Methodologies

2018

BSc

IS

Barry, Nathan

eLife: Social Gaming and Community Building

BSc

CS

Gibson, Kieran

Nao Robot & Speech Control

BSc

IS

Kooner, Arron

eLife: Effectiveness of Online Learning

MSc

DS

Al Busaidi, Fahad

Predicting Remaining Useful Life of Machines

MSc

AI

Spence, Alan

Drone Swarms for Fire Rescue Support

MSc

AI

Wongariyakavee, Sukrit

Forecasting Stock Indexes with Deep Learning

PhD

Daehnhardt, Elena

Mining Microblogs for Culture-Awareness in Web Adaptation (with Yanguo Jing, Coventry University)

2019

MEng

SE

Innes, Matthew

Masterclass: Ethical Issues of Driverless Vehicles

BSc

IS

Jafarov, Farhad

Masterclass: Fintech - AI and Blockchain

BSc

IS

Jafarov, Farhad

Crowdsourcing for Traders and Investors

BSc

IS

McIntosh, Samuel

eLife: Online Learning and Training in Business

BSc

IS

Nibloe, Alastair

eLife: Impact and Awareness of Financial Fraud

BSc

CS

Walsh, Christopher

Lymphoma Classification & ANNs & EAs

MSc

RAIS

Brown, Christopher

Spherical Object Manipulation with a Parallel Manipulator (with Xianwen Kong, EPS)

MSc

AI

Holderby, Mary

Masterclass: Neural Networks in Meteorological Research

MSc

AI

Mahapattanakul, Puttatida

Masterclass: Deep Learning for Breast Cancer Screening

MSc

IT

Mukhitov, Adilet

Identifying Patterns in Travel Review Ratings

2020

BSc

CS

Jacholke, Michael

Health and Fitness Application

MEng

SE

Jedrzejczyk, Sabina

Flocking Behviour in Robot Swarms

BSc

IS

Marshall, Patricia

eLife: Willingness to Disclose Personal Data

MEng

SE

Schmieg, Mark

Masterclass: Biometrics

MSc

DS

Da Silva, Theo

Machine Learning for Fraud Detectuion

MSc

AI

Ibanez, Jean-Alexandre

Machine Learning for Mushroom Edibility

MSc

AI

Tiger, Noe

AI driven Simulation

2021

BSc

CSys

Chung, Vincent Tze On

Flexible Dueting Fitness Application

BSc

CS

Elkabbany, Abdelrahman

Virtual Personal Fitness Training Web App

BSc

IS

Perry, Luke

eLife: Internet Subcultures

BSc

IS

Rice, Jamie

eLife: Accessibility & Consumption of Visual Art

BSc

IS

Zaman, Qamar

Masterclass: COVID-19 as a Digital Accelerator

MSc

AI

Boissier, Thibaud

Machine Learning for Planetary Rovers

MSc

IT

Desai, Kinjal

Machine Learning in Face Detection & Recognition

MSc

DS

Mugara, Kuda

Machine Learning for Insurance Modelling

MSc

DS

Scott, Cameron

Data Visualisation (Data Lab project with Supplier Development Programme)

PhD

RAS CDT

Andrecki, Marian

Learning Generative Models to Predict Environment State (with Subramanian Ramamoorthy, University of Edinburgh)

PhD

RAS CDT

Chun, Ho-Tak (Derek)

Energy Based Approach to Controlling and Simulating Soft Robots (with Adam Stokes, University of Edinburgh)

PhD

RAS CDT

Lopez-Guevara, Tatiana

Adaptable Robotic Manipulation of Fluids via Online Simulation (with Kartic Subr, University of Edinburgh)

PhD

iCASE

Trevett, Ben

Adaptive Automatic Assessment for Engineering Education and Training (with Donald Reay, EPS and Khaled Benkrid, ARM)

2022

BSc

IS

Laurent, Lewis

eLife: Personal Health Monitoring and Behaviour

BSc

IS

Whitfield, Murdao

eLife: Attitudes to AI in Future Warfare

BSc

IS

Zaman, Qamar

eLife: Attitudes to Augmented Humanity (Cyborgs)

MSc

BIM

Faria, Michael

Security & Safety of Autonomous Vehicles

MSc

DS

Lucas, Melanie

Machine Learning for Electricity Consumption Forecasting (with Edinburgh Airport)

MSc

DS

Rietuma, Lina

Characterisation of Schools and their adoption of EdTech (Data Lab project with Sumdog)

PhD

RAS CDT

Lacourtablaise, Thibault

Manipulation of objects in Zero-Gravity with modular Self-Reconfigurable Robots

2023

MEng

SE

Clark, Cale

Exoplanet Detection with Autoencoders

BSc

CS

Fenlon, Roman

Ecological Niche Modelling of the Grey Squirrel

MSc

AI

Agrawal, Diksha

Machine Learning for Diabetes Diagnosis

MSc

DS

Chen, Kevin

Machine Learning for Gas Consumption Forecasting (with Edinburgh Airport)

PhD

RAS CDT

Yu, Wei

Embracing Concept Drift in Online Continual Learning

Ongoing

PhD

USA

Ibrahim, Adil

AIS & Affinity Measures (with David Corne)

PhD

Cyprus

Savva, Georgios

Fitness Function Selection & Robot Dynamics (with David Corne)

PhD

Dubai

Shaikh, Talal

Presence and Activity Detection via WiFi Signals (with Hadj Batatia)