Graduate students with Marcus Frean

Current students

Arindam Bhakta (for PhD): t.b.a. in the ball-park of active vision, with Chris Hollitt and Will Browne.
Mona Hakami (for PhD), with Bastiaan.
Anna Friedlander (for MSc): detecting diffuse objects in radio telescope images, with Melanie Johnson-Hollitt and Chris Hollitt
Praveen Choppala (for PhD), with Paul Teal
Eda Czanecki (for PhD), with Joseph Bulbulia
Zakwan Muharram (for PhD), with Qiang Fu

Previous graduate students

PhD
Rohitash Chandra (PhD)	Problem Decomposition and Adaptation in Cooperative Neuro-evolution with Application to Chaotic Time Series Prediction	2012
Sergio Hernandez (PhD)	Smoothing algorithms for the Probability Hypothesis Density filter	2010
Phillip Boyle (PhD)	Gaussian processes for regression and optimisation	2007
Richard Mansfield (PhD)	Stability and Evolution in Rock-paper-scissors Ecologies	2006
MSc
James Bebbington (MSc)	Learning Actions that Reduce (Perceived) Variation in Objects	2011
Jim Barritt (MSc)	Spatially explicit simulation of individual foraging behaviour across patchy resources	2006
Russell Tod (MSc)	Online unsupervised learning and inference with networks of spiking neurons	2006
Tim Field (MSc)	Policy gradient learning for motor control	2005
Jerome Dolman (MSc)	Exploring mechanisms of retinotectal development	200?
Honours projects
Thomas Robinson	Evaluation of an optimization algorithm	2011
Michael Mudge	Efficient Global Optimization for Expensive Functions	2010
Russell Tod	Spiking Neuron models for Control
Kieran Paton	Emergence of mutualisms in simple agent-based bartering economies	2006
Shane Gibbs	Emergent Mutualisms in an Agent-Based Economic Simulation	2005
Emanuel Rabina	Reciprocal Altruism for Dummies	2005
Matt Lilley	Gaussian processes as neural networks	2004
Jerome Dolman	Evolution of topographical mappings in the brain	2003
Justin Rens	Dynamic neural architectures	2003
Nicolas Croad	Hybrid systems for chess (postscript)	2002
Tim Field	Adaptive Behaviour in Physically-Based Simulation	2001
Richard Procter	Sex and the Altruist	2001
Gareth Cranefield	Investigating spatial ecologies	2001
Richard Mansfield	The evolution of policing	2000
Tim Robinson	Biologically plausible back-propagation	2000

Other projects and essays

Brett Calcott	A Spatial Model of Foraging Competition amongst Ant Species
Brett Calcott	Learning and evolution: Tarbutniks
Pippin Barr	Evolution of Language