Computational Modelling Group

• Login/Register

You are here:

• CMG Home
• People
• Seth Bullock

In October 2005 I joined the University of Southampton, and helped to found the Science and Engineering of Natural Systems (SENSe) research group within the School of Electronics and Computer Science (ECS). In 2009 I became head of the SENSe group, and also became Director of Southampton's Institute for Complex Systems Simulation (ICSS).

In 2010 I became co-director of the University Strategic Research Group in Complexity in Real World Contexts (USRG Complexity), for which I run a Complex Systems Simulation Seminar Series (CS^4). In 2011 I was promoted to Professor of Computer Science and helped found the Agents, Interaction and Complexity (AIC) research group.

Fully-Funded PhD Positions in Complex Systems Simulation

If you are interested in a fully-funded PhD position, modelling complex systems in areas such as climate change, drug design, evolutionary and ecological biology, transport, markets, amorphous and pervasive computing, tissues and biomedical systems, massive multi-agent systems, quantum systems, turbulence, nanodevices, molecular biology, industrial design, etc., please click here.

Research Interests

My principal research interest is evolutionary simulation modelling: the application of evolutionary modelling techniques developed within artificial intelligence (e.g., genetic algorithms) to problems within evolutionary biology (e.g., the evolution of communication). I am also interested in self-organisation and adaptation in engineered systems, such as computational ecosystems, and the potential for the modelling techniques that I use to be applied to problems from many other disciplines, e.g., linguistics, economics, psychology, geography, anthropology, etc.

Some of my additional research interests include:

• modelling tools related to the evolutionary simulation modelling approach such as evolutionary computation, evolutionary and economic game theory, artificial neural networks, and evolutionary theory
• the interplay between self-organsiation and evolution
• networks science - particularly coevolutionary networks
• philosophical and methodological issues raised by evolutionary simulation modelling - philosophy of science and philosophy of biology
• engineering applications of evolutionary computation such as evolutionary and coevolutionary design paradigms
• areas of evolutionary biology, such as the handicap principle and signalling, sexual selection, and coevolution
• psychological topics, such as the evolution of cognition and decision-making, rationality, and experimental economics
• research areas sometimes termed: the simulation of adaptive behaviour, evolutionary robotics, complex systems theory, individual-based models, synthetic psychology, biology and behavioural ecology

Location

Highfield Campus, Building 16, Room 1053

Seth's team members

Miguel Gonzalez Canudas Postgraduate Research Student, Electronics and Computer Science (FPAS)

Leo Jofeh Postgraduate Research Student, Electronics and Computer Science (FPAS)

Thomas Hebbron Postgraduate Research Student, Electronics and Computer Science (FPAS)

Tom Hebbron Postgraduate Research Student, Electronics and Computer Science (FPAS)

Elisabeth zu-Erbach-Schoenberg Postgraduate Research Student, Management (FBL)

Melissa Saeland Postgraduate Research Student, National Oceanography Centre (FNES)

Stuart Bartlett Postgraduate Research Student, Electronics and Computer Science (FPAS)

Camillia Zedan Postgraduate Research Student, Electronics and Computer Science (FPAS)

Sarah Ward Postgraduate Research Student, Geography (FSHS)

Petrina Butler Administrative Staff, Research and Innovation Services

Joint projects with...

Tom Anderson Principal Research Fellow, National Oceanography Centre (FNES)

Sally Brailsford Professor, Management (FBL)

Jonathan Essex Professor, Chemistry (FNES)

Hans Fangohr Professor, Engineering Sciences (FEE)

Antonella Ianni Senior Lecturer, Social Sciences (FSHS)

Research Groups

Projects