About ALICE
The Aston Lab for Intelligent Collectives Engineering combines expertise in various forms of collective computing systems: multi-agent systems, evolutionary computation, swarm intelligence, self-adaptive, self-organising and self-aware systems. We have a particular focus on how to engineer such collectives to achieve specific desirable properties, such as emergence, robustness, adaptability, scalability and creativity. Our work has been applied to a wide range of applications including sensor networks, swarm robotics, computer generated art, decision support systems and economic modelling.
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!
We often advertise fully-funded studentships applications from self-funding students are always open. Contact a lab member for more information.
Our Lab Members
Nelly Bencomo
Lecturer in Computer Science
Nelly Bencomo is a lecturer in Computer Science in Aston University. Before, she was a Marie Curie Fellow at INRIA Paris - Roquencourt.
Chris Buckingham
Senior Lecturer in Computer Science
A cognitive scientist who specialises in building computational models of psychological classification and decision making.
Maria Chli
Senior Lecturer in Computer Science
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 in Computer Science
Aniko Ekart is a senior lecturer at Aston University and member of ALICE. Her research interests range from specific theory a nd application of evolutionary computation...
Harry Goldingay
Lecturer in Computer Science
Harry Goldingay is a lecturer at Aston University and a member of ALICE. His research interests are in swarm intelligence, swarm robotics and continuous optimization.
Peter Lewis
Lecturer in Computer Science
Peter Lewis is a Lecturer at Aston University and a member of ALICE. His research is concerned with online learning, adaptation and optimisation in complex agent-based systems.
Kat Samperi
Visiting Academic
Kat Samperi has recently completed her PhD at the University of Birmingham before moving to Aston University. She is currently working in industry and a visiting academic connected with ALICE.
Alina Patelli
PhD Student
Alina Patelli graduated with an BSc in Applied Sciences and later obtained a PhD in Systems Engineering. She is currently pursuing a second PhD in Semantic Reasoning and Autonomic Computing.
Ali Rezaei Yazdi
Postdoc 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 in Computer Science
Luca's research interests are in the areas of structural pattern recognition, data and network science.
