Dissertation Students

This page is under construction, and presumably always will be. Eventually I'd like to link dissertations and code here too, at least for projects that get either first class honours (undergrads) or distinctions (MScs). If you are a former student & I am missing any info or a link for you, please email me & I will edit it in.

If you are a current student (esp. a PhD student), you should start gently by reading wise advice to new grad students, then you probably ought to read the Researcher's Bible. You might also want to read about doing research at the MIT AI lab, although of course I don't expect my students' lives to be like that (honest). In contrast, this is exactly what a PhD is about. Here is excellent advice to read before writing your dissertation, on the difference between a thesis and a dissertation. Here is some very wise words about doing graduate research. I particularly like the "How to keep/create a good relationship?" Here's some British advice that particularly address personal time and again your relationship with your supervisor.

If you are a final-year undergraduate or masters student, you should probably read my own advice about writing essays and dissertatins.

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Doctoral dissertations
Masters dissertations
Undergraduate dissertations

Further details of current student research (especially where it's relevant to my own) can sometimes be found on the AmonI Research Page.

PhD Students

Emmanuel Tanguy	Autumn 2002-July 2006 (with Phil Willis)	Emotions: the Art of Communication Applied to Virtual Actors	Web page with code.
Mark Wood	Autumn 2003-July 2007	An Agent-Independent Task Learning Framework	Web page with code.
Hagen Lehmann	Winter 2005-September 2009	On the Applicability of Agent Based Modelling in Behavioural Ecology
Marios Richards	Autumn 2008-Spring 2012 (part time)	evolutionary dynamics (did not complete)
Dominic Mitchell	Autumn 2010- (part time)	a public language perspective on cultural evolution
Gideon Gluckman	Autumn 2010- (part time, suspended)	how social structure affects information discovery
Bidan Huang	Autumn 2010-	learning in a modular robot architecture
Daniel Taylor	Autumn 2010-	cultural evolution
Swen Gaudl	Spring 2012-	evolutionary learning and AI character game design
Yifei Wang	Autumn 2012-	exploiting biological innovations in immunity
Jekaterina Novikova	Autumn 2012- (with Leon Watts)	human-robot collaboration
Anthony Smith	Autumn 2012- (EngD with Remode)	Game AI
Paul Rauwolf	Autumn 2012- (with Marina De Vos)	social norms and self deception
JeeHang Lee	Autumn 2011- (with Julian Padget)	norms and institutions in multi-agent systems

Some of the other PhD students I've been involved with:

Elizabeth Gordon, Grue: An Architecture for Agents in Games and other Real-Time Environments (Nottingham 2005).
Jan Drugowitsch, Design and Analysis of Learning Classifier Systems: A Probabilistic Approach (Bath 2007).
Joost Broekens, Affect and Learning: A Computational Analysis (Leiden 2007).
Tak-Shing Chan, A Cognitive Information Theory of Music: A Computational Memetics Approach (Goldsmiths 2008).
Andrew Carnell, Aspects of learning within networks of spiking neurons (Bath 2008). Bath Research Page

MSc Students

2010

John Grey, "Achieving Procedural Side Quests through Behaviour Oriented Design", distinction.
Jason Leake, "An Evaluation of Behaviour Oriented Design for Robotic Applications", distinction.
Daniel Taylor, "Why is Culture Adaptive?"

2008

Marios Richards, "The Limitations of the Baldwin Effect".

2007

Jonathon Ballie Strong, "Applying and improving a dynamic project planner".

2006

Alastair Fletcher, "Evolution of Robustness and Episatasis in Artificial Gene Networks through Asexual and Sexual Reproduction," distinction.
Jiang Yifan, "Improving Speech Production for an Emotionally Expressive Facial Animation System."

2005

Ando Yasushi, "The Effect of Predation on the Evolution of Dominance Hierarchy in Primate Society," distinction.
Andrew Beggs "Aide Memoir Bot with Emotional Response (AMBER): A Desktop Prototype of a Behaviour-Based, Artificially Intelligent Care Device with a Virtual Reality Face," distinction.
Stephen Couzens "Implementation and Testing of Teamwork Theories Using Behaviour Oriented Design."
Matthew Thomas "Cultural Evolution and Prestige," distinction.
Zhang Borui, "The Integration of EEFAS and Chatbots System."

2004

Wang Jinxu, "Aggressive Interaction in Social Dominance: An Agent-Based Model."
Liu Wenxin, "Monkey in the MUD."
Chia-Hua (Annette) Tsou, "Monkeys in a Simulation Tool - SeSAm."
Paula Ellis, "Psychology on the Internet: Emotional Facial Expressions in Virtual Agents," distinction.

2003

Wang Jing Jing (Andrea), "Sexual Attraction and Inter-Sexual Dominance Among Virtual Agents --- Replication of Hemelrijk's DomWorld Model with NetLogo," distinction.
Andy Kwong "A Framework for Reactive Intelligence through Agile Component-Based Behaviors," distinction.
Nur Haifa Muhd Fathil, "The Study of the Evolution of Macaque Complex Despotic Societies."
Peter Duncan Wright, "A Graphical User Interface for Creating and Editing Plans."

Undergraduate Students

2012/2013

Michael Brooks
Alex Fedorec
Thom Highman
George Lungley
Tim MacFarlane
Alice Stuart-Lee

2011/2012

Eugene Bann, "Discovering Basic Emotion Sets via Semantic Clustering on a Twitter Corpus", distinction.
Simon Davies, "Development of an AI for the Real-Time-Strategy Game Star Craft Using Behaviour Oriented Design", distinction.
Tom Hyde, "The Behaviour-Oriented Design of an Artificial Football Team", distinction.
Zack Lyons, suspended.
Richard Scott-Holt, "Convolutional Neural Networks", distinction.

2010/2011

David Greenhill, "Using Agent Based Modelling to aid explanation of female dominance in mammalian species".
Chris Harrison, suspended.
Jack Kenyon, "Adapting a Video Game to do Psychological Experiments", distinction
Matthew Robinson, "Behaviour Oriented Design of Online World Avatars."
Michael Tremante, "Behavioural Economics in On-line Environments", distinction.

2009/2010

James Bickerton, "The Creation of an Intelligent Agent for Social Interaction on the iPhone", distinction.
Tom Fletcher, "Machine Learning of Player Strategy in Games", distinction, prize.
Paul Roche, suspended

2008/2009

Rob Jenks, "Adaptive Dynamic Primate Social Structure and the Evolution of Referential Communication", distinction, prize.

2006/2007

Ayesha Begum, "Developent of a Dynamic Project Planner".
Mary Estall, "Creating an Assistive Intelligenc Environment using Behaviour Oriented Design (BOD)", distinction.
Tom Peach, "An Investigation into High-level Behaviour Specification for Autonomous Avatars".
Bowen Sun, "Dynamic Collaborative Project Planner".

2005/2006

Christos Bechlivanidis, "An examination of the role of prestige in cultural evolution with the aid of Agent Based Modelling", distinction.
Avri Bilovich, "Detecting Individual Differences in Beliefs Through Language Use", distinction, prize.
Steve Butler, "A Simulated Exploration into the Growth of Modern Terrorist Networks", distinction.
Steven James Gray, "Relational State Machines".
David M. Jennings, "A Critical Analysis of Behaviour-Oriented Design (BOD): The Development of an Artificial Football Team for the Robocup Environment using BOD."

2004/2005

Abeer Almoawdah, "Arabic Language Tutoring System."
Chris Knight, "A Web Situated, Rule-Based Fitness Plan Generator and Monitoring Prototype."
Sam Partington, "A critical analysis of Behaviour-Oriented Design (BOD), based on experiences in using it to create an Unreal Tournament Capture-the-Flag (CTF) team", distinction, prize.
Meri Williams, "Dynamic Planning: The Application of AI Planning Advances to Project Management," distinction, prize.

2003/2004

Tristan Caulfield, "Acquiring and Using Knowledge in Computer Chess," distinction.
Joanna Julie Church, "Development of a web site for cataloguing student accommodation in Bath to be used by both students and landlords, using XHTML, XML and ancillary technologies, MySQL and PHP."
Phillip J. Richards, "An Integrated Development Enviroment for Behaviour Oriented Design."
Emily K. F. Korvin,
Stephen M. Richards, "A Reactive Project Planner."
Robert W. Holbrook, "The Development of a NetLogo Behaviour Library for the Simulation of Social Animal Interactions."

2002/2003

Natalia Boutureira, "Development of an XML IDE using Java," distinction.
John Edward Mann, "Comparison between using ACT-R and Behaviour Oriented Design Methodology to Model the Learning of Transitive Inference," distinction.
Wong Ping (Jennifer), "Building a Tool for Building Personality-Based Commerce Web Pages"
David Robert Pratt, "Expense Claims via the Web."
Lin Jia

Others

Ivana Cace, diploma project student from University of Utrecht, 2004, distinction.
Jonathon Leong, volunteer UROP at Harvard, 2002.

Joanna Bryson

Last updated March 2013