Supervisors

Music computing, audio-visual composition

Robot simulation and “red-teaming” for robot control software safety & robustness using game AI techniques

Games for heritage and museums with a particular interest in community participation in development and production

Sociology of digital data and big data, mobile media and the relations between popular culture and by-product data.

Artificial intelligence, Analytics, Embodied Cognition, Enactivism & Cybernetics.

Complexity; dynamical systems; digital art and music, swarm intelligence.

Enabling the general public to interact with real-world data through the use of novel interactive technology and visualization techniques. Utilizing interactive technology, data visualizations and games for scientific outreach, digital civics and citizen science.

Object knowledge, spatial representation, body representation, multi-sensory perception, learning and cognitive control, in childhood.

Brain Computer Interfaces and Games, Data mining, game analytics.

Virtual Reality, Computer Vision, Computer Graphics.

Games for training and understanding in security domains.

Use of games to understand complex crowd and swarm behaviours (Organiser of Theoretical Ecology and Complex Systems (TECS) seminar series).

Music information retrieval

Machine learning particular Bayesian methods and graphical models. Applying discrete optimisation algorithms to machine learning. Statistical methods in artificial intelligence.

Multi-agent systems for online cultural experiences

Marketing of games. Business models. Games With A Purpose (GW AP).

Illumination models for graphics, interaction design

Game Analytics, data mining, machine learning, game development, business and business intelligence, supply chain analytics, Human-Computer Interaction and Game User Research, user experience.

Soundscapes, acoustic ecology, acoustics

Neural networks and Deep Learning. Adaptive Dynamic Programming + Reinforcement Learning. Optimisation. Control Theory. Financial Forecasting. AI in games.

Market Based Economic Games, Game Trading Competitions.

Creative applications of machine learning; gestural and embodied interaction; accessibility and personalised interaction

Strong games industry links. Procedural game content genesis. 3D graphics and vision. Gamification. Scientific visualisation.

Interested in using coevolutionary algorithms for game intelligence, and in developing games to address scientific questions.

presence, user experience of digital media, restorative media, social media, gaming, digital inclusion, usability and accessibility, attitudinal consumer segmentations, future media, innovation

Software studies, computational culture

Science and technology studies, digital media, rnateriality, environments and environmental change, urbanism, creative practice, participation inventive methods.

Study of Network Games, Economic Game Theory, Recipient of 5 Year ERC Fellowship Grant, Editorial Board of Several Economics Journals.

Games and virtual reality, games and education.

Virtual Reality, Virtual Humans, Interactive Machine Learning, Body and Movement based Interaction Techniques.

Audiovisual interaction, cognition and perception, signal processing, brain-computer interfaces

Games for Rehabilitation (with successful clinical trials)

Reinforcement Learning and Robotics, Use of Games as Complex Virtual Environments for studying Machine Learning.

Interactive media.

Novel forms of interaction for games (e.g. augmented reality); tools and interfaces for game creation; the intersection of games and live performance.

Robotics, famous for Robotic Fish (featured on BBC News, London Aquarium}, Robotic Games (e.g. RoboCup). Novel methods for man-machine interaction.

The impact of technology on the arts (textiles, sound, curating, design and literature)

Procedural generation, competitive gaming and eSports, game cultures, game semiotics, game literacy. Available as a co-supervisor

Mechanism design for economic games. Fair division, bargaining and negotiation protocols. Experimental game theory.

Adaptive and learning agents for games. Evolution of cooperation, communication and foraging strategies in game environments. Natural language processing and language games. Games and financial forecasting for stock market simulations.

Sound and audio processing for virtual environments. Spatial Audio and surround sound. Interactive audio systems. Virtual Acoustics.

Unconventional gameful/playful interfaces, locative/pervasive games, critical game design

Strong games industry links. Artificial Intelligence (AI). Machine Learning. Game Analytics.

multiplayer games to understand/train sustainable and economic use of shared resources, especially in fisheries.

Interactive media; user experience; traditional storytelling; knowledge exchange; codesign; ethnography; design methods; community engagement.

Embedded systems, novel hardware architectures, measuring emotional responses.

Using games to better understand the limitations of working memory, how distractors are ignored and how these change across the lifespan, with implications for cognitive training.

Music and sound perception

Interactive acoustic environments, room acoustics measurement and simualtion, auralization, acoustic modelling and evaluation, spatial audio rendering.

Film and interactive media; digital media convergence; machinima; game aesthetics, narrative, affect

Machine learning and computer vision, particularly motivated by problems arising in the audio-visual analysis of affective behaviour under real-world conditions.

Machine learning and artificial intelligence

Interaction design and assistive technologies.

Immersive Virtual Reality; Cognitive Neuroscience; Social Interaction; Training and psychotherapy; Character Animation

Sound design; Auditory displays; Sound synthesis and processing; Interactive audio; Sound design for Cinema and Television; Cinematic and synthetic voice.

Biological and cognitive correlates of personality, statistics, neural networks and other formal models, cognitive control, category learning.

multiplayer games to understand/train sustainable and economic use of shared resources, especially in fisheries.

Expert in natural language processing, Games With a Purpose (GWAP).

Games as mulltiagent complex systems models. Software engineering.

Genetic Programming, games and emergent behaviour.

Interactive systems for disabled and older adult users. Interactive systems for digital cultural heritage. Evaluation of interactive systems.

Algorithmics and collective intelligence

Integrating learning to read in gaming apps. In particular helping boys learn to read

Compiler design and implementation; colour theory and perception; audio, music and multimedia informatics.

Using games in behavioural ecology to explore competing social behavioural strategies e.g. in collective decision-making, foraging.

Mechanism design for economic games. Experimental game theory.

Brain Computer Interfaces and Games.

Manager of Complex City Apps. Games With A Purpose (GW AP). Interactive tasks for the assessment of neurodegenerative diseases.

Content capture for animation and games, photorealistic rendering, 3D graphics.

Data science and analytics

Gamification: Using games to do and publicise complex systems science.

Games for Rehabilitation (research already supported by successful clinical trials).

Compiler design and games programming; substantial industry experience.

Using machine learning approaches in collective decision making for autonomous systems.

Constrained Satisfaction, Computational Finance and Game Theory.

Design of novel mathematical games and puzzles

Expert in human neuroimaging. Ongoing collaboration with Riot Games to evaluate personality traits from huge quantities of gameplay data.

Music signal modelling and effects processing, public engagement.

Using games to do as well as disseminate science. Current interests in animal behaviour and synthetic biology.

Robotics and Games, Games in Education.

Education technology, creative musical Ais, computer Music, automatic sound synthesizer programming, genetic algorithms, interactive music systems.

Evolutionary Algorithms, Multi-Objective Optimisation and Games.

New media psychology, culture mining, machine haptics.