School of Computer Science and Statistics
The project will deal with the statistical analysis of meteorological data. See for example here: 🌤️ Free Open-Source Weather API | Open-Meteo.com The interested Students, must do a good search in this or another relevant data, contact me for confirmation and then they can request the project.
ELIGIBILITY: This project is for a student on the M.Sc. in Statistics and Data Science. In this project, we’ll look at the various ways in which ecologists have attempted to answer the question ‘How many species are there?’. Some of these methods are statistical, and we’ll focus on those, but we’ll also take a look … Read more
Individuals in a species (esp. humans) may cooperate and they may communicate. Recent decades have seen quite a lot of efforts to use computational simulation — so-called individual/agent-based modelling — to investigate what cooperation is , and how communication factors into it, striving to fit this into a general picture of varying levels of survival … Read more
There is a traditional ‘optimal’ way to play the game of ‘tic tac toe’ — the way defined by applying the so-called ‘minimax’ algorithm (Chap 5 Russell & Norvig ‘Artif. Intelligence: a Modern Approach’ [R&N]) . An area in of application of ‘Markov Decision Processes’ and ‘Reinforcement Learning’ (Chap 22 [R&N], Chap 13 Mackworth & … Read more
My teaching and research relate to natural language processing and machine learning. There’s code I have developed for algorithms relating to this, some traditional and some more novel. There is scope for projects relating to this pre-existing code and algorithms that is not necessarily related to improving the bottom-line performance of these algorithms, but more … Read more
BRIEFLY: I am quite interested in ‘sound shifts’ that apparently systematically relate languages which have common ancestry and there are possibilities to implement tools to assist in the presentation/verification of data that scholars have over the years assembled to attest to these sound shifts AT GREATER LENGTH: Sometime during the 19th century it was observed … Read more
The online OED (see bottom for url ) contains a lot of information about a word, including ‘etymological’ information on the words ‘origin‘. This info is given near the top of an entry in very terse format, making it accessible really only to specialists. There are several things that could be done to generate portrayals … Read more
Can machines ‘learn’ word meanings just from lots of textual examples? There has been quite a lot of research into this (see Wikipedia intro), all based on the idea that different meanings tend to show up in rather different contexts eg. move the mouse till the cursor … dissect the mouse and extract its DNA … There is a code … Read more
I am happy to supervise final-year undergraduate projects and master’s theses (Data Science). Below are the research topics. As these topics rely on advanced mathematical and statistical methods, only candidates with a strong background in mathematics or statistics will be considered. I also welcome PhD enquiries. If you’re interested, please contact me to discuss your … Read more
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