Advisors: Prof Marie Dacke.
Project: Adaptive Compass, Funding: Svenska Instititet.

I investigate of how biological compasses are adapted to different visual environments, with a focus on neuronal adaptations, and develop optimized models of visual orientation mechanisms for different visual habitats.

Advisors: Prof Barbara Webb.
Project: Insect Neuro Nano, Funding: European Research Council.

I explored the effectiveness of different forms of working memory constrained by the biology and nanotechnology hardware, and built an anatomically-accurate polarised light compass sensor and model.

Advisors: Prof Barbara Webb, Prof Subramanian Ramamoorthy.
Thesis examiners: Prof Thomas Nowotny (external), Prof J. Douglas Armstrong (internal).
Project: Insect neuroethology of reinforcement learning, Funding: RAS CDT.

I investigated how insects form associative memories based on reinforcements from the environment and how this impacts their behaviour in the context of reinforcement learning.

Advisors: Dr Michael Mangan (Sheffield), Prof Barbara Webb (Edinburgh).
Project: Invisible Cues, Funding: Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council.

I was responsible for investigating the information content of polarised light in relation to animal navigation before using the outcomes to develop a technical specification / design for manufacture of a novel robot sensor.

Advisors: Prof Barbara Webb.
Project: Minimal, Funding: European Research Council.

I focus on trying to imitate the learning mechanism of the larval Drosophila, which creates associations among odours and tastes. The goal is to create such a mechanism in neural level and put it on a robot platform. The robot will try to find the gustatory source following the gradients of the associated odour.

Advisors: Dr Petros Daras.
Projects: RePlay, FI-STAR, Funding: European Commision.

My main task was to implement a toolbox, using C# and the WPF subsystem, which could be used to analyse and compare human gestures, tracked using different capturing devices, i.e., Microsoft Kinect, Vicon, WIMUs. I also implemented an extension of it, which was compatible with Unity3D.

I have been tutoring, demonstrating and marking for a variety of courses including:

• Introductory Applied Machine Learning: tutor, demonstrator, marker

  Instructors: Dr Amos Storkey & Prof Chris Williams

• Reinforcement Learning: tutor

  Instructors: Dr Pavlos Andreadis & Dr Stefano Albrecht

• System Desighn Project: Machine Vision and Quantitative Analysis expert

  Instructors: Dr Steve Tonneau, James Garforth & Prof Barbara Webb

• Heterogeneous Parallel Programming: I was responsible for answering students' questions regarding the course material and assignments

  Instructor: Prof Wen-mei W. Hwu