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I am Professor of Computer Science and Director of Teaching Quality in Birkbeck’s Department of Computer Science and Information Systems, and Co-Director of the Birkbeck Knowledge Lab. I am Fellow of the Advance HE, and Member of the EPSRC College, UK. I hold BEng/MEng and Dr. Eng (University of Patras, Greece) and PGCE(HE) (Brunel University, UK). Before becoming an academic, I held R&D positions in the cement and automotive industries designing fuzzy and neural components for embedded systems. My team designs and develops innovative learning algorithms and system components that employ machine learning and deep networks, sometimes combined with symbolic AI, for psychophysiological data modelling and classification, and intelligent learning environments. The aim is to enable systems to exhibit different levels of intelligence, learn from data and transfer knowledge to new contexts. Our work has received best paper awards by the IEEE (2000 and 2008), the European Network on Intelligent Technologies for Smart Adaptive Systems (2001 and 2004), the International Association for Development of the Information Society (2006), the ACM (2009) and KES International (2010).

PhD students examined



  • Y.-L. Chen (MPhil), Department of Computation, The University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, 2002. 
  • Hariklia Kazeli (PhD), An Intelligent Hybrid Decision Support System for the Management of Water Resources, Department of Informatics, University of Cyprus, Cyprus, Feb 18, 2006. 
  • John Pagionis (PhD), Evolutionary Personal Information Filtering: combating information overload caused by habitual Web surfing using an evolutionary personal content-based recommender system, Department of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, University of Essex, UK, July 28, 2010. 
  • Leonidas Kapsokalivas (PhD), Local search-based protein folding simulations, Department of Computer Science, King's College London, UK, September 30, 2010. 
  • Dror Ben-Naim (PhD), A Software Architecture that Promotes Pedagogical Ownership in Intelligent Tutoring Systems, The University of New South Wales, Australia, November 21, 2010. 
  • Rishi Ruttun (PhD), The effects of individual differences and instructional aids on learners’ disorientation, learning performance and attitudes in hypermedia learning system, Brunel University, December 12, 2011. 
  • Mohammed Mostafa Mohammed Nasef (PhD), Selecting and Constructing Rules Using Genetic, Programming and Grammatical Evolution, Menoufia University, Egypt, May 26, 2011. 
  • Fadratul Hassan (PhD), Heuristic Search Methods and Cellular Automata Modelling for Layout Design, Brunel University, February 8, 2013. 
  • Julio Trevisan (PhD), Computational Intelligence Algorithms to Characterise a Morphologically-transformed and a Stem Cell Phenotype, Lancaster University, June 26, 2013. 
  • Xiaoming Liu (PhD), Situation-aware Optimizations in Complex Networks, University of the Western Cape, South Africa, January 26, 2014. 
  • Wissam Audah Albukhanajer (PhD), Multi-objective evolutionary feature selection and ensembles for invariant image identification, University of Surrey, February 25, 2015. 
  • Woraluck Wongse-Ek (PhD), Towards a Trust Model in e-Learning, University of Southampton, September 8, 2015. 
  • Yihan Tao (PhD), Understanding and supporting collaborative sensemaking in collaborative information seeking, School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, Queen Mary University of London, November 19, 2015 .
  • Richard Hyde (PhD), Advanced Analysis and Visualisation Techniques for Atmospheric Data, Lancaster University, December 12, 2016.
  • Wajdi Alghamdi (PhD), Predictive Modelling Approach to Data-driven Computational Psychiatry, Goldsmiths, University of London, June 7, 2018.
  • Emmanuel Perakakis (PhD), Web on TV -Designing Web Content for Enhanced User Experience on an Internet-Connected Television Device, Brunel University, July 5, 2018.
  • Fadi Louis Nammour (PhD), Clinical Intelligence Framework for Decision Support, Kingston University, December 11, 2018.

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