Funded Research Projects
Current Projects:
- Principal Investigator,
New Machine Learning Methods, 2015-2017, funded (£12K)
by The Royal Society , a collaboration
with Dr. Jose Pricnipe,
Distinguished Professor, University of Florida, inventor of the Information-Theoretic
Learning (ITL);
- Principal Investigator,
Early Detection of Insider Threats by Autonomous Analysis of User Behaviour
Evolution, 2015-2018, funded (£110K)
by GCHQ;
- Principal Investigator,
GAMMA:
Growing Autonomous Mission MAnagement systems Programme, 2012-2014,
total £9.1M (£4.2M RGF funding; £247K);
funded by the Regional
Growth Fund, BIS
- Principal Investigator,
CAST:
Co-ordinated Airborne Studies in the Tropics', 2012-2016,
total £3M coordinated by Cambridge University, consortium
of 6 UK Universities and NASA; Lancaster WP is on the study of dynamically
evolving data pattern using innovative evolving clustering methods; £90K
share for Lancaster); funded by the NERC,
UK
- Principal Investigator,
'Autonomous Object Detection and Tracking in Real-Time', 2012-2016,
£90K co-funded by EPSRC
and Thales, UK
- co-Investigator,
GAMMA-EU: 'Global AtM security MAnagement', August 2010-September
2012, miltimilion IP (£563K to Lancaster);
funded by EC
- Founding member,
Centre of Excellence on CyberSecurity, EPSRC and GCHQ, £50K
seed money, 2012-2017
Recent Externally Funded
Projects (Lancaster University):
- Principal Investigator,
AURORA: AUtonomous Real-time On-boaRd
video data Analytics , 2013-2014, £80K,
funded by Centre
for Defence Enterprise, Ministry
of Defence
- Principal
Investigator,
SARIVA: Smartphone App for Real-time Intelligent VideoAnalytics; funded
by Security Lancaster, £2K, Dec. 2013-June
2014, see also the smartphone app WhatMovesApp
at Google Play Store
which resulted form thsi project; available free (the basioc
version)
- co-Investigator,
SVETLANA:
Safety (and maintenance) improVEment Trough automated fLight data ANAlysis),
August 2010-Dec 2012, 1.3M Euro (260K Euro to
Lancaster); funded by EC
- Principal
Investigator, Development
of methods, algorithms and software for autonomous novelty detection by moving
camera; funded by Security Lancaster, £1.2K,
June-July 2012
- Principal Investigator,
'Multi-source Intelligence: STAKE: Real-time Spatio-Temporal Analysis and
Knowledge Extraction through Evolving Clustering', 2011,
£30,172; funded by Centre
for Defence Enterprise, Ministry
of Defence
- Principal Investigator,
'Assisted Carriage: Intelligent Leader-follower
algorithms for ground platforms', 2009, £41,911;
funded by Centre
for Defence Enterprise, Ministry
of Defence
- co-Investigator of
EPSRC funded Industrial
CASE award to develop 'Better Clinical Decisions for Less Effort – Building
prediction software models to improve anticoagulation care to prevent thrombosis
and strokes' in cooperation and supported by 4S
Information Systems 2005-2009, £79,285 -
currently 4S Information Systems is testing eTS
(evolving Takagi-Sugeno predictor) algorithm in a real environment
- co-Investigator,
'UAV
Safety Support', June - December, 2008 £43,817;
funded by BAE Systems
- Principal Investigator
for Lancaster University of ASTRAEA,
(Autonomous
Systems Technology Related Airborne Evaluation & Assessment), a national
£32M programme that includes several leading
Universities and multinational companies; T4 Adaptive Routing, Sept. 2006-Dec.
2008; for Lancaster University £75,000;
funded by DBERR
- Principal Investigator
for Lancaster University of ASTRAEA,
(Autonomous
Systems Technology Related Airborne Evaluation & Assessment), a national
£32M programme that includes several leading
Universities and multinational companies; T5 Sense
and Avoid, Sept. 2006-Dec. 2008; for Lancaster University
£150,000;funded by DBERR
- The
WINNER of 2008 The Engineer technology and innovation award for Aerospace
and Defence and The Special Award of The Engineer technology and innovation
2008, presented at The Royal Society, London, 3 October 2008
- Principal Investigator
of 'Collision
Avoidance Algorithm Development', March 2006-February 2007,
£66,000;funded by BAE
Systems
- Principal Investigator
of '2006 International Symposium on Evolving Fuzzy Systems', 2006,
£12,768; funded by EPSRC
Internal and Small projects:
Principal Investigator,
'
EvoMap: On-Chip Implementation of Intelligent
Information Modelling using EVOlving MAPping', funded by Lancaster University,
2004-05, £8,500
Supervisor
of a student research project ("Study of map-building and target recognition
with autonomous mobile robot Pioneer-DX3"),funded by
Nuffield Foundation, 2005, £1,260
Consultancy and other research projects:
Consultancy plus
EST software,
$14,000;
funded by Ford
Consultancy for
phase 6
Consultancy for
Apadmi
Consultancy, 'UAS Passive Sense,
Detect and Avoid Algorithm Development', 2009-2010, £24,000;
funded by BAE
Systems - this project is a part of ASTRAEA,
(Autonomous
Systems Technology Related Airborne Evaluation & Assessment)- phase
2, a national multimillion programme that includes
several multinational companies and leading Universities
Principal Investigator,
A novel system for autonomous object detection and tracking from uninhabited
aerial vehicles (UAVs)', 2009, £10,000;
funded by the
Innovation vouchers scheme of the North-West
Development Agency and Autonomous
Vehicles International, AVi, Ltd, awarded, but vouchers not cashed in due
to problems of the company
Previous Externally Funded Research Projects
(Loughborough University):
- Principal Investigator of the
EPSRC funded research project "Application
of Fuzzy Rule-based Models in Building HVAC Systems Simulation, (GR/M97299), £49,990, 2000-2001
Investigation and development of a new
method for modelling components of air-conditioning systems using evolving
rule-based models. Individual grant review concluded: 'tending to outstanding'
and 'tending to internationally leading', supervision of a post-doc researcher.
- Co-Investigator of the
ASHARE funded research project "Building System Design Synthesis
and Optimization" (RP-1049), $181,000, 1999-2002
Development and implementation of an approach to automatic synthesis and optimisation
of building air-conditioning systems using genetic algorithms and rules, supervision
of a PhD student.
- EUNITE
(EUropean Network of excellence in Intelligent TEchnologies for smart adaptive
systems), sponsored by the European Commission (IST 2000-29207), 2001-2004;
Value €1,215,000. Role: Member of the Research
and Theory Development Committee, Key Node, supervision
of 2 postgraduate students.
- INREB
(Integration of New and Renewable Energy in Buildings) FARADY partnership,
2001-2005; Value £3M. Role: co-investigator, part of
the team preparing the proposal
- Visiting Researcher
at CESAME,
Catholic University of Leuvain, Louvain-la-neuve, Belgium, in the EU funded
project ERB-FAIR-CT96-1099, €129
000, 1997-1999
Hybrid neural-network-based modelling of
bio-technological processes.
- Principal Investigator
in Industry-funded (NEC) project "Electrical Load Forecasting by Neural
Networks", 600 000 BGL 1994-1996
Develop an approach, design of the related
software in TurboPascal
(NeuroPower) and testing in real conditions,
supervision of a software developer
- Visiting Researcher in the DAAD
funded project at
Hans-Knoell Institute, Jena, Germany, 8 000 DEM, 1996
Application of
GA for optimisation of processes described by fuzzy models.
- Research Fellow in the NFSI funded project
"Modelling and Optimisation of Food Industry Processes", CC-338/93,
1993-1996
Implement new approaches for optimisation (using genetic algorithms) of biotechnological
processes in the area of food industry applications described by fuzzy models
or artificial neural networks, supervision of MSc students
- Research Fellow in the NFSI funded project
"New Methods for Control of Processes of Microbial Synthesis", TH-189/90,
1990-1993
Study and
develop new approaches for optimal control of biotechnological processes subject
to significant uncertainties, supervision of MSc students
Hosting visiting Researchers
- £2.5K
grant to host Prof.
Frank Klawonn, University of Applied Sciences, Braunschweig, GERMANY for
a short incoming visit working on Evolving Probabilistic Classifiers with
applications to bio-medical data, April-May 2006
- £1
grant to host Dr. Edwin Lughofer
Fuzzy Logic Laboratory, Johan Kepler University, Linz, AUSTRIA, for a
short incoming visit working on evolving fuzzy classifiers and systems, £1K,
May 2007
Travel grants
- £795
grant from the Royal
Society to give invited talks at
Ford R&D, Dearborn, MI, USA,
Dow Chemicals R&D, Saginaw, MI, USA, and University
of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
- £1140 grant from
the Royal Society to
give a Tutorial and present a paper at the World
Congress on Computational Intelligence , Sheraton Vancouver Wall Centre
Hotel, Vancouver, BC, Canada, July 16-21, 2006
- IEEE sponsorship of the
Chairs meeting attendance, CYBCO-2013, Lausanne, Switzerland, 2012
- INSTICC sponsored key
note talk, IJCCI-2012, Paris, France, October 2011
- Hosts sponsored invited
talk, COSY-11, Ohrid, FYROM, September 2011
- Hosts sponsored invited
talk, COSY-11, Ohrid, FYROM, September 2011
- IEEE Sponsored TC Chairs
meeting, Anchorage, AL, USA, October 2011
- IEEE sponsorship of the
AdCom meeting attendance, WCCI-2010, Barcelona, Spain
- Bulgarian Union on Automation
and Informatics sponsored plenary talk, John Atanassoff Days, 3-5 October,
2010
- $500 from IEEE for the
Workshop on Evolving
and Self-Developing Intelligent Systems in the framework of the IEEE
Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence, SSCI 2009, 29 March -
2 April, 2009, Nashville, Tennessee, USA
- £350 from the Faculty
of Applied Sciences, Lancaster University to attend the IEEE
Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence, SSCI 2009, 29 March -
2 April, 2009, Nashville, Tennessee, USA(co-Chairing a Workshop ESDIS'09),
TG/08/58, March 2009
- £292 from Helios,
ATM KTN for an invited talk at Farnborough, June, 2008
- £350 from the Faculty
of Applied Sciences, Lancaster University to attend the 3rd
International Workshop on Genetic and Evolving Fuzzy Systems, Witten-Bomerholz,
Germany, 4-7 March 2008 (Vice Chair), TG/07/47
- £300 from the Faculty
of Applied Sciences, Lancaster University to give a plenary talk at the IFAC
Workshop on Energy Saving Control in Plants and Buildings, 2-5 October 2006,
TG/06/15
- £300 from the Faculty
of Applied Sciences, Lancaster University, to give a plenary talk at the VII
Symposium on Intelligent Automation , 18-23 September, 2005, Sao Luis,
Brazil (and an invited lecture at UNICAMP, 27 September 2005), TG/04/44
- £300 from the Faculty
of Applied Sciences, Lancaster University to attend the 1st
International Workshop on Genetic Fuzzy Systems, Granada, Spain, 17-19 March,
2005 (IPC member), TG/04/11
- £300 to attend
from the Faculty
of Applied Sciences, Lancaster
University to attend 24th
NAFIPS Annual Conference, Ann Arbor, Michigan, June 22-25, 2005 (invited
presentation, special session organizer), TG/04/24
- £300 from the Faculty
of Engineering, Loughborough
University to attend 9th IFSA
World Congress,2001
- £300 from the Faculty
of Engineering, Loughborough
University to attend
IEEE
International Conference on Industrial Engineering, Control and Instrumentation
IECON-2000, 22-28 October 2000, Nagoya, Japan
- £500 from the Faculty
of Engineering, Loughborough
University to attend 8th IFSA
World Congress, Taipei, Taiwan, August 17-20, 1999
- BEF670K from the
Belgian Office for Technical, Scientific and Cultural Affairs to the Prime
Minister of Belgium, for joint research, 1997
- DEM8000 from DAAD
to visit
Hans-Knoell Institute, Germany for collaboration, 1996
- DEM2100 from DFG
to visit Hannover University, Germany for collaboration programme set-up,
1995