Seminar 15th May 2013 1 p.m. Building 44, Room 1041 Highfield Campus
Quantitative Biology Seminar Series
Professor Jon Timmis
University of York
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- http://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/jtimmis/
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- Complex Systems
- Submitter
- Luke Goater
Professor Jon Timmis
Prof Jon Timmis, University of York, "From Immune Systems to Robots"
There are many areas of bio-inspired computing where inspiration is taken from a biological system to construct an engineered solution. This talk will focus on the modelling of the immune system using agent-based simulations and the trustworthiness, or otherwise, of such simulations and the use of the immune system as inspiration in a variety of settings from robot mounted chemical identification to self-healing swarm robotic systems. We will explore how the modelling and engineering work can complement each other, and pass comment on the thrills and pitfalls of interdisciplinary working.
Speaker information
Prof Jon Timmis, University of York, Jon Timmis is Professor of Natural Computation at the University of York and holds a joint appointment between the Department of Electronics and the Department of Computer Science. His primary research is in the area of computational immunology and bio-inspired fault tolerance in embedded systems, with a focus on swarm robotic systems. He gained his PhD in Computer Science from the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. He holds a senior Royal Society Research fellowship, a Wolfson Research Merit Award, to investigate the development of self-healing swarm robotic systems.