Nature Inspired Computing and Engineering Research Group

Nature presents some of the best examples of how to solve complex problems efficiently and effectively.

In our group, we advance the foundations of artificial intelligence by drawing inspiration from nature and foundational science disciplines, for example from cognitive sciences, including neuroscience and psychology, and also biological systems, including gene regulatory networks, natural evolution, and physical sciences. We apply our techniques to solve real-world problems in healthcare and sustainability, computer vision and robotics, natural language processing, and other areas.

The Nature Inspired Computing and Engineering group (NICE) is part of the Computer Science Research Centre, together with the Surrey Centre for Cyber Security (SCCS).

Research areas

Foundations of Machine Learning Systems

Robotics in Computer Science

Natural Language Processing

AI for Integrative Health

Explainable and Trustworthy AI

Meet the team

Dr Roman Bauer

Head of the Nature Inspired Computing and Engineering Group

Roman received his Bachelor's and Master's Degree in Computational Science and Engineering from ETH Zuerich, Switzerland. Afterwards, he did his doctoral studies at the Institute for Neuroinformatics (INI) at ETH Zürich and University of Zürich, working on simulations of cortical development. He then joined Newcastle University in September 2013 as a postdoctora...

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