Joanna Bryson's Research Students

• Doctoral dissertations
• Masters dissertations
• Undergraduate dissertations

Group information and writing advice

We keep track of our own notes on the Joanna Bryson's Research Group wiki. In fact, the brilliant name for our group was invented by the wiki's first author, Marios Richards.

When you are nearly done with your PhD (or postdoc) you should probably read this advice on writing your first grants.

If you are a final-year undergraduate or masters student, you should probably read my own advice about writing essays and dissertations.

PhD Students

• Ronny Bogani, Bath ART-AI.

• Elizabeth Gordon, Grue: An Architecture for Agents in Games and other Real-Time Environments (Nottingham, Computer Science 2005).
• Jan Drugowitsch,  Design and Analysis of Learning Classifier Systems:  A Probabilistic Approach  (Bath, Computer Science 2007).
• Gina Raihani, Conflict in Context: A critique and investigation into the logic, nature, and evolutionary consequences of competition in animals (Bath, Psychology, 2007).
  
• Joost Broekens, Affect and Learning: A Computational Analysis (Leiden, Computer Science, 2007).
• Tak-Shing Chan,  A Cognitive Information Theory of Music: A Computational Memetics Approach (Goldsmiths, Computer Science 2008).
• Andrew Carnell, Aspects of learning within networks of spiking neurons (Bath, Computer Science 2008).  Bath Research Page
• JeeHang Lee, Norm Awareness for Virtual Characters Behaviour: A Socio-Cognitive Approach (Bath, Computer Science, 2015).
  
• Elizabeth Gallagher, Evolutionary Models for the Origins of Agriculture (UCL, Anthropology 2017).
• Justin Lane, The Evolution of Doctrinal Religions: Using semantic network analysis and computational models to examine the evolutionary dynamics of large religions (Oxford, Anthropology 2019).
• Miles Brundage, ASU, Responsible Governance of Artificial Intelligence: An Assessment, Theoretical Framework, and Exploration (ASU Human and Social Dimensions of Science and Technology, 2019).
  

I've had a couple people start PhDs and not complete, but we still learned from each other.

• Marios Richards, 3.5 years part time.
  
• Gideon Gluckman, 1 year part time.
• April Grow, UCSC, game AI, suspended.
  
• Dominic Mitchell, 5.5 years part time.
• Holly Wilson, 1 year, changed supervisors.
  

Masters Students

All students MSc unless otherwise indicated. Note, due to a two body problem it's been hard for me to supervise MScs since 2006 as I don't tend to be in Bath in the summers.

2015

• Laura Deeley (MComp, started 2014), Hongwei Tong, Yang Hong.
  

2010

• John Grey, "Achieving Procedural Side Quests through Behaviour Oriented Design", distinction.
• Jason Leake, "An Evaluation of Behaviour Oriented Design for Robotic Applications", distinction.
• Daniel Taylor, "Why is Culture Adaptive?"

2008

• Marios Richards, "The Limitations of the Baldwin Effect".
  

2007

• Jonathon Ballie Strong, "Applying and improving a dynamic project planner".

2006

• Alastair Fletcher, "Evolution of Robustness and Episatasis in Artificial Gene Networks through Asexual and Sexual Reproduction," distinction.
  
• Jiang Yifan, "Improving Speech Production for an Emotionally Expressive Facial Animation System."

2005

• Ando Yasushi, "The Effect of Predation on the Evolution of Dominance Hierarchy in Primate Society,"  distinction.
• Andrew Beggs "Aide Memoir Bot with Emotional Response (AMBER): A Desktop Prototype of a Behaviour-Based, Artificially Intelligent Care Device with a Virtual Reality Face," distinction.
• Stephen Couzens "Implementation and Testing of Teamwork Theories Using Behaviour Oriented Design."
• Matthew Thomas "Cultural Evolution and Prestige," distinction.
• Zhang Borui, "The Integration of EEFAS and Chatbots System."
  

2004

• Wang Jinxu, "Aggressive Interaction in Social Dominance: An Agent-Based Model."
  
• Liu Wenxin, "Monkey in the MUD."
  
• Chia-Hua (Annette) Tsou, "Monkeys in a Simulation Tool - SeSAm."
  
• Paula Ellis, "Psychology on the Internet:  Emotional Facial Expressions in Virtual Agents,"  distinction.

2003

• Wang Jing Jing (Andrea), "Sexual Attraction and Inter-Sexual Dominance Among Virtual Agents --- Replication of Hemelrijk's DomWorld Model with NetLogo," distinction.
• Andy Kwong "A Framework for Reactive Intelligence through Agile Component-Based Behaviors," distinction.
• Nur Haifa Muhd Fathil, "The Study of the Evolution of Macaque Complex Despotic Societies."
• Peter Duncan Wright, "A Graphical User Interface for Creating and Editing Plans."T

Undergraduate Students

Note: due to a two body problem it's been hard for me to supervise Undergraduaes since 2015 as I am only physically in Bath about 20% of the time (I'm only on 30% of my Reader's salary now.)

2014/2015

• Kyle Bignell
• Wil Eager
• Alex Kershaw
• Tom Murray
• Aaron Rickard
  

2013/2014

• Alex Aiton, "Extending a StarCraft AI Behaviour Library"
  
• Sam Eaton-Rosen, "Using LEGO Mindstorms as a Foundation for Robotic Football Agents"
  
• Tom Ellis, "A Framework to Facilitate the Procedural Generation of POSH Action Selection Plans"
  
• Ryan Murdock, "Study and Development of an Artificial Intelligence Player for the Board Game Risk"
  
• Stephen Pearson, "Cooperative RISK playing agents"
• Allan Taylor, "Modelling Dolphin and Fish Interaction"
  
• Michael Wyllie, "The Use of Drama Managers in Narrative Generation"
  

2012/2013

• Michael Brooks, "Facilitating the Creation of Advanced Agents within NetLogo by Allowing Specification and Control Using the Behaviour Oriented Design Methodology", distinction.
• Alex Fedorec,"Information acquisition and communication and its impact on social structure" distinction.
• Thom Highman, "Clever Cogs --- Making Procedurally Generated Quests more Interesting"
• George Lungley, "Comparison of Behaviour Tree Implementations"
• Tim MacFarlane, "Extracting Semantics from the Enron Corpus", distinction.
• Alice Stuart-Lee, "Modelling Matriarchal Social Structures in Non-Human Contexts" distinction.

2011/2012

• Eugene Bann, "Discovering Basic Emotion Sets via Semantic Clustering on a Twitter Corpus", distinction.
  
• Simon Davies, "Development of an AI for the Real-Time-Strategy Game Star Craft Using Behaviour Oriented Design", distinction.
• Tom Hyde, "The Behaviour-Oriented Design of an Artificial Football Team", distinction.
• Zack Lyons, suspended.
  
• Richard Scott-Holt, "Convolutional Neural Networks", distinction.

2010/2011

• David Greenhill, "Using Agent Based Modelling to aid explanation of female dominance in mammalian species".
  
• Chris Harrison, suspended.
  
• Jack Kenyon, "Adapting a Video Game to do Psychological Experiments", distinction
• Matthew Robinson, "Behaviour Oriented Design of Online World Avatars."
  
• Michael Tremante, "Behavioural Economics in On-line Environments", distinction.

2009/2010

• James Bickerton, "The Creation of an Intelligent Agent for Social Interaction on the iPhone", distinction.
• Tom Fletcher, "Machine Learning of Player Strategy in Games", distinction, prize.
• Paul Roche, suspended

2008/2009

• Rob Jenks, "Adaptive Dynamic Primate Social Structure and the Evolution of Referential Communication", distinction, prize.

2006/2007

• Ayesha Begum, "Developent of a Dynamic Project Planner".
• Mary Estall, "Creating an Assistive Intelligenc Environment using Behaviour Oriented Design (BOD)", distinction.
• Tom Peach, "An Investigation into High-level Behaviour Specification for Autonomous Avatars".
  
• Bowen Sun, "Dynamic Collaborative Project Planner".
  

2005/2006

• Christos Bechlivanidis, "An examination of the role of prestige in cultural evolution with the aid of Agent Based Modelling", distinction.
• Avri Bilovich, "Detecting Individual Differences in Beliefs Through Language Use", distinction, prize.
• Steve Butler, "A Simulated Exploration into the Growth of Modern Terrorist Networks", distinction.
• Steven James Gray, "Relational State Machines".
• David M. Jennings, "A Critical Analysis of Behaviour-Oriented Design (BOD): The Development of an Artificial Football Team for the Robocup Environment using BOD."
  

2004/2005

• Abeer Almoawdah, "Arabic Language Tutoring System."
  
• Chris Knight, "A Web Situated, Rule-Based Fitness Plan Generator and Monitoring Prototype."
  
• Sam Partington, "A critical analysis of Behaviour-Oriented Design (BOD), based on experiences in using it to create an Unreal Tournament Capture-the-Flag (CTF) team", distinction, prize.
• Meri Williams, "Dynamic Planning: The Application of AI Planning Advances to Project Management," distinction, prize.

2003/2004

• Tristan Caulfield, "Acquiring and Using Knowledge in Computer Chess," distinction.
  
• Joanna Julie Church, "Development of a web site for cataloguing student accommodation in Bath to be used by both students and landlords, using XHTML, XML and ancillary technologies, MySQL and PHP."
  
• Phillip J. Richards, "An Integrated Development Enviroment for Behaviour Oriented Design."
  
• Emily K. F. Korvin,
• Stephen M. Richards, "A Reactive Project Planner."
  
• Robert W. Holbrook, "The Development of a NetLogo Behaviour Library for the Simulation of Social Animal Interactions."
  

2002/2003

• Natalia Boutureira, "Development of an XML IDE using Java," distinction.
• John Edward Mann, "Comparison between using ACT-R and Behaviour Oriented Design Methodology to Model the Learning of Transitive Inference," distinction.
  
• Wong Ping (Jennifer), "Building a Tool for Building Personality-Based Commerce Web Pages"
• David Robert Pratt, "Expense Claims via the Web."
• Lin Jia
  

Others

• Ivana Cace, diploma project student from University of Utrecht, 2004, distinction.
  
• Jonathon Leong, volunteer UROP at Harvard, 2002.