Student Projects

Cercia staff work closely with students of the MSc students at the School of Computer Science, particularly with MSc in Natural Computation students. All Natural Computation students are required to produce a research poster describing the work undertaken in their project.

MSc Project Posters 2008

• Adrian Garcia Visualization of Plagiarism
• Alan Meeson Signal Peptide Analysis Through Tensor Calculus
• Chris Allsopp Nature-Inspired Dimensionality Reduction and Feature Selection For Brain-Computer Interfaces
• Chris Wirth Classifying Multiple Objectives Through Nature-Inspired Techniques
• Daniel Peavoy Using Differential Equations to Model Genetic Networks: A Bayesian Approach [1st Prize £200]
• David Simpson An Evolutionary Approach to Aesthetically Pleasing Space Filling
• Hayden Devlin Texturing 3D Geometries Using Reaction Diffusion
• Oliver Chamberlain Applying Evolutionary Neural Networks to Robotic Soccer
• Shilpa Dani Reservoir Analysis of the Echo State Network
• Stephen Jones, Cracking user passwords [2nd Prize £100]
• Zac Downs Face Detection & Recognition

2007

• Bob Durrant Mitigating the "Curse of Dimensionality" in Machine Learning
• Blazej Jozefiak Finding Optimal Strategies for Supply Chain Management
• Henri Tedom Noumbi Feature Selection & Hybrid Decision Tree/Genetic Algorithm for Cancer Diagnosis based on Mass Spectrometry Proteomics
• Owen Rackahm Wavelets as a Representation for Creative Design
• Martin Radlak Financial Time Series Prediction
• Edward Robinson The Neuroevolution of Teaching Architectures in an Artificial Life Model
• Mark Rowan Evolved Representations For Prediction Of Football Matches
• Adam Scriven Functional Algorithms for Exact Real Integration on Self-Similar Spaces
• Justin Spooner An Investigation of Hybrid Ant Colony Optimisation
• Daniel Trimm Evolving Neural Networks - Evolutionary Algorithms and Self-Organising Maps
• Eleanor Turpin An Improved Immune Algorithm for Protein Folding
• Timothy Yates Adaptive Length Encoding for Evolutionary Shape Optimisation [Poster Competition Winner 2006-2007]
• Peter Zeidman Feature Selection and Document Classification in a Massive Dataset
• Qian Zhang Correlation Based Feature Selection for Proteomics