Research Student List

Each research student is listed along with the current working thesis title or an indication of the research area. The name of the supervisor is also given.

Current Students

Masrah Azmi-Murad (1.47 QB, x 9798, Masrah.Azmi-Murad)

Prof Jim Baldwin, Dr Trevor Martin

David Barton (2.80 BLADE, QB, x 17409, David.Barton.99)

Dr R E Wilson

Luke Carrivick (1.47 QB, x 9798, Luke.Carrivick)

James England (2.80 BLADE, QB, x 17409, James.England)

Dr H M Osinga

Richard Eyres (0.80 BLADE, QB, x 17367, Richard.Eyres)

Characterisation of Lag Dampers
Prof John Hogan, Prof Alan Champneys, Dr Nick Lieven (Aerospace)

Tom Griffin (1.80 BLADE, QB, x 17368, Tom.Griffin)

Piecewise Smooth Systems with Noise
Prof. John Hogan

Sachin Karale (1.47 QB, x 9798, S.B.Karale)

Prof Jim Baldwin

David Lloyd (2.80 BLADE, QB, x 17409, David.Lloyd)

Prof Alan Champneys

John Malone (1.47 QB, x 9798, J.P.Malone)

Dr J M Rossiter

Gabor Orosz (2.80 BLADE, QB, x 17409, G.Orosz)

Delay equations and Applications
Dr Bernd Krauskopf, Dr R E Wilson

James Parrott (1.80 BLADE, QB, x 17375, James.Parrott)

Prof. Alan Champneys, Prof. David Muir-Wood

Zengchang Qin (1.47 QB, x 9798, Z.Qin@bristol.ac.uk)

Data mining with words
Dr Jonathan Lawry

Oliver Turnbull (1.47 QB, x 9798, O.Turnbull)

Dr Jonathan Lawry, Dr M Lowenberg

Dong (Walter) Xie (1.47 QB, x 9798, D.Xie)

Fuzzy Logic Data Mining application in Business
Prof Jim Baldwin

Raymond Yau

Nonlinear Dynamics of Liquid Crystals
Prof John Hogan

Recent PhDs

Mario di Bernardo

Analysis and control of chaotic systems
Dr Alan Champneys, Prof David Stoten (Mech Eng)

David Brittain

The design and optimisation of optical fibre communication networks
Mr Jon Sims Williams

Simon Case

Fuzzy methods for Telecommunications
Prof Jim Baldwin, Dr Trevor Martin

Guy Charles (1.33 Q, x 8208, Guy.Charles)

Control of Bifurcations and Chaos in Aircraft Flight Mechanics
Dr Mario di Bernardo, Dr Mark Lowenberg (Aerospace), Prof David Stoten (Mech. Eng.)

Robert Clewley

Nonlinear Dynamics of Neural Computing
Prof. Alan Champneys

Nello Cristianini

Theory of Generalisation in Learning Systems
Dr. Colin Campbell

Rose Crossland

Risk in the Development of Design
Mr Jon Sims Williams

Gareth Davis

Swimming Pool Chlorination
Prof. John Hogan

Paul Davison (1.69 Q, x 9860, Paul.Davison)

Nonlinear Aircraft Dynamics and Control
Dr Mark Lowenberg (Aerospace), Dr Mario di Bernardo

Ines Gonzalez

Dr Jonathan Lawry

Richard Gooch

Machine learning techniques for signal processing, pattern recognition and knowledge extraction from examples
Prof Jim Baldwin, Dr Trevor Martin

Kirk Green 

Chaos in Semiconductor Lasers with Phase-Conjugate Feedback
Dr Bernd Krauskopf

Chris Halse  

Nonlinear Dynamics of Automotive Systems
Dr R E Wilson, Dr Mario di Bernardo

Carla Hill

Prof Jim Baldwin, Dr Trevor Martin

Martin Homer

A cellular automata model of tube bundle wear in heat exchangers
Prof John Hogan

Alan Horwood

Fractal dimension of medical images
Prof John Hogan

Jennifer Jones

Fractal dimension of medical images
Prof John Hogan

Udaya Kahangamage

A study of design reuse issues in the conceptual design of rail car dumper systems
Mr Jon Sims Williams, Dr Stuart Burgess

Piotr Kowalczyk (R3A BCH, x 16781, P.Kowalczyk)

Sliding Bifurcations in Piecewise Smooth Systems
Dr Mario di Bernardo

Rhona Lindsay

Effects of shear in nematic liquid crystal layers
Prof John Hogan

Nigel Mottram

Freedericksz transitions, defects and disclinations in nematic liquid crystals with sinusoidal boundaries
Prof John Hogan

Tamasine Mansfield

Nonlinear Dynamics Applied to Chains
Prof John Hogan

Bart Oldeman

Numerical investigation of homoclinic-doubling cascades
Prof. Alan Champneys, Dr. Bernd Krauskopf

Matthew Pearce (R1A BCH, x 16780, m.j.pearce)

'Embedded Solitons' in Nonlinear Optics
Prof. Alan Champneys

Christiane Ponsan

Fuzzy Computing methods for computing with words
Prof Jim Baldwin, Dr Trevor Martin

Nicholas Randon  

Dr Jonathan Lawry

Simon Rogers  

Dr. Colin Campbell

Jonathan Rossiter

Knowledge extraction from large datasets using fuzzy logic
Prof Jim Baldwin, Dr Trevor Martin

Mehreen Saeed

Neuro-Fuzzy Logic Systems
Prof Jim Baldwin, Dr Trevor Martin

James Shanahan

Cartesian Granule Features: Knowledge Discovery for Classification and Prediction
Prof Jim Baldwin, Dr Trevor Martin

Orestis Stylianidis

Application of evidential reasoning to handwritten character recognition
Prof Jim Baldwin, Dr Trevor Martin

Athena Tocatlidou

Uncertainty propagation in environments combining fuzzy and probabilistic uncertainties
Prof Jim Baldwin, Dr Trevor Martin

Enza di Tomaso (R3A BCH, x 16781, Enza.di-Tomaso)

Prof Jim Baldwin

Aimilia Tzanavari

User Modelling for Intelligent Human Computer Interaction
Prof Jim Baldwin, Dr Trevor Martin

Kostas Veropoulos

Neural Networks
Dr. Colin Campbell

Patrick Woods

Nonlinear elastic buckling
Prof. Alan Champneys