Current address:

University of Salford
School of Computing, Science and Engineering
Salford, M5 4WT
United Kingdom

Education:

PhD
University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST)
1993 - 1996

MSc Applied Artificial Intelligence .
Aberdeen University
1991 - 1992

BSc (Hons) Combined Studies in Science: Chemistry and Computing 2 (i) .
Sunderland University
1986 - 1990

Experience:

Lecturer, School of Computing The Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen 2001 - 2008

Research Associate , Department of Computer Science University of York 1997 - 2001

Research Fellow University of Huddersfield 1996 - 1997

Skills:

Activities:

Interests:

biological grammar acquisition

inductive logic programming

active learning

refinement of biological networks

learning which uORFs regulate gene expression

References:

Functional genomic hypothesis generation and experimentation by a robot scientist (2004) Nature, 427(6971) pp247-252

A First Step towards Learning which uORFs Regulate Gene Expression (2006) Journal of Integrative Bioinformatics, 3(2) pp31.

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