SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING AND COMPUTER SCIENCE

Will Browne

Dr Will Browne

Senior Lecturer,
School of Engineering and Computer Science

Phone: +64 4 463 5233 x8489
Email: address
Office: CO341, Cotton Building, Kelburn Campus - Postal Address
Nearest Fax: +64 4 463 5045

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Research Interests

My main area of research is Applied Cognitive Systems. Essentially, how to use inspiration from natural intelligence to enable computers/machines/robots to behave usefully.

This includes:

  • Cognitive Robotics
  • Learning Classifier Systems (a branch of evolutionary computation) and
  • Modern Heuristics for industrial application.

Industrial and business links have been through doctorate studies (four years with British Steel/Corus), postdoctoral work (three years with British Aluminium/Alcoa) and applied research work (Knowledge Transfer Partnerships). Experience and expertise in Rolling Mills, along with application of Artificial Intelligence techniques, heuristics and modern information technology systems to real-world problems has led to successful project outcomes.

Blue skies research includes analogues of emotions, abstraction, memory systems, small worlds phenomenon, confusion/dissonance and machine consciousness.

Publications

For a list of my recent publications, please see the Publications Database.

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ResearchInterests Applied Cognitive Systems: Cognitive Robotics, Learning Classifier Systems (evolutionary computation) and Modern Heuristics.
Qualifications BEng (Bath, UK), MSc (Cardiff, UK), EngD (Cardiff, UK), CEng (MIMechE)
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