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Professor Seth Bullock
BA Hons (Sus.), DPhil (Sus.)
Current positions
Toshiba Chair in Data Science and Simulation
School of Computer Science
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Research interests
My principal research interest is complex systems simulation: the application of modelling techniques developed within artificial intelligence, complexity science, maths and physics to understanding how complex systems behave. I am interested in the potential for the modelling techniques that I use to be applied to problems from many other disciplines. I have worked on problems from archaeology to zoology and my primary interests are in the life sciences and social sciences. I am also interested in self-organisation and adaptation in engineered systems, such as computational ecosystems, infrastructure systems, etc.
Short bio
After gaining a BA in cognitive science and a DPhil (PhD) in evolutionary simulation modelling from the School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences at Sussex University, I spent two years in Berlin at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development working on simulating the evolution of adaptive decision-making behaviour in people and other animals. In 1999 I took up a five-year University Research Fellowship at the University of Leeds, founded the Biosystems research group, and became a Lecturer there in 2004. In October 2005 I joined the University of Southampton as Senior Lecturer, and helped to found the Science and Engineering of Natural Systems (SENSe) research group. In 2009 I became head of the SENSe group, and also became Director of Southampton's Institute for Complex Systems Simulation (ICSS). In 2011 I was promoted to Professor of Computer Science and helped found the Agents, Interaction and Complexity (AIC) research group. In 2015 I joined the University of Bristol's Department of Computer Science as Toshiba Chair in Data Science and Simulation.
Projects and supervisions
Research projects
8459 AI For Collective Intelligence
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of Computer ScienceDates
01/02/2024 to 31/01/2029
OAFI 8459 AI For Collective Intelligence
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of Computer ScienceDates
01/02/2024 to 31/01/2029
Propserity Partnership with Thales
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Department of Computer ScienceDates
01/10/2017 to 30/09/2022
Prosperity Partnership with Thales
Principal Investigator
Role
Co-Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Department of Computer ScienceDates
01/10/2017 to 31/03/2023
Thesis supervisions
UAV operator decision-making in a Search and Rescue Application
Supervisors
Barriers to population level AMR research in UK livestock and opportunities for data science
Supervisors
Coping with Complexity
Supervisors
Towards Context-Aware Recommender Systems for Tourists
Supervisors
Heterogeneity in Multi-Agent Systems
Supervisors
Publications
Recent publications
01/05/2023Agent heterogeneity mediates extremism in an adaptive social network model
Proceedings of the Artificial Life Conference 2023 (ALIFE 2023)
Detecting and classifying degradation in robotic swarms
ALIFE 2023: Ghost in the Machine: Proceedings of the 2023 Artificial Life Conference
Spatial community structure impedes language amalgamation in a population-based iterated learning model
Proceedings of the Artificial Life Conference 2023 (ALIFE 2023)
Using the Decision Ladder to understand human decision-making processes during a UAV-equipped Search and Rescue mission
Human Systems Engineering and Design (IHSED 2023)