About ALICE
The Aston Lab for Intelligent Collectives Engineering is Aston University's research group for intelligent systems. Our research expertise includes various forms of intelligent, social and collective computing systems: multi-agent systems, evolutionary computation, swarm intelligence, artificial social agents, machine learning, self-adaptive, self-organising and self-aware systems. We have a particular focus on how to engineer such system based on biological and social principles, and capable of achieving specific desirable properties, such as robustness, adaptability, scalability and creativity. ALICE’s work is being applied to a wide range of domains including sensor networks, swarm robotics, computer-generated art, decision support systems, economic modelling, healthcare, smart manufacturing, and intelligent virtual agents.
ALIA Symposium
In June 2016, ALICE hosted the Second International Symposium on Artificial Life and Intelligent Agents (ALIA 2016).
Doctoral Study
Come and study for your PhD with ALICE! Studentships are often available. Contact a lab member for more information.
ALICE's Dr. Peter Lewis was Programme Chair of the 12th IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems (SASO).
Our Lab Members
Nelly Bencomo
Lecturer
Nelly exploits the interdisciplinary aspects of software engineering, comprising both technical and human concerns, while developing techniques for intelligent, autonomous and highly-distributed systems.
Chris Buckingham
Senior Lecturer
Chris is a cognitive scientist who specialises in building computational models of psychological classification and decision making.
Maria Chli
Senior Lecturer
Maria Chli is a Senior Lecturer at Aston University and a member of ALICE. She graduated with an MEng and later obtained a PhD from Imperial College London.
Aniko Ekart
Senior Lecturer
Aniko's research interests range from specific theory and application of evolutionary computation.
Harry Goldingay
Lecturer
Harry's research interests are in swarm intelligence, swarm robotics and continuous optimization.
Peter Lewis
Senior Lecturer
Peter's research is concerned with complex agent-based systems that learn and adapt on an ongoing basis.
Kat Samperi
Visiting Academic
Kat's research is on intelligent virtual agents. She is currently working in industry and a visiting academic connected with ALICE.
Alina Patelli
Teaching Fellow and Research Associate
Alina is a systems engineer, with research interests in evolutionary computation, autonomic knowledge curation and self-aware systems.
Ali Rezaei Yazdi
Post-doctoral Research Associate
Completing his PhD in AI, Ali's research is on extracting cognitive knowledge from data & producing decision making/classification models. His research area is Data Science & its utilisation in AI.
Aamir Akbar
PhD Student
Aamir's current research centres around Software Module Clustering techniques using Evolutionary Algorithms particularly for the migration of mobile applications to mobile-cloud hybrid applications.
Arezoo Vejdanparast
PhD Student
Arezoo's research is focused on the impact of the application of heterogeneity/diversity to collective systems and particularly self-organizing wireless sensor networks.
Luca Rossi
Lecturer
Luca's research interests are in the areas of structural pattern recognition, data and network science.
Thomas Griffiths
PhD Student
Thomas's research focuses on Genetic Programming with a specific interest in the self-adaptation of parameters at runtime and hybridised fitness functions.
Aman Soni
PhD Student
Aman's research focuses on solving dynamic problems using nature-inspired algorithms from reinforcement learning, evolutionary computing and hybrid techniques.
Diego R. Faria
Lecturer
Diego's research interests are focused on human-robot interaction and assistive living resorting to probabilistic modelling for learning and inference based on multi-modal sensory information.
Elizabeth Wanner
Lecturer
Elizabeth's research interests are in population-based multiobjective optimization and matheuristics, multi-criteria decision analysis and mathematical and statistical aspects of optimization theory.
Lukas Esterle
Marie Curie Post-doctoral Research Fellow
Lukas's research interests are in self-organizing and self-aware collective systems in changing environments.
