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Professor Ferrante Neri
Head of the Nature Inspired Computing and Engineering Group
Academic staff
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Dr Roman Bauer
Senior Lecturer
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Dr Suparna De
Lecturer in Computer Science
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Dr Amir Esfahani
Associate Professor in Robotics
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Dr Zhenhua Feng
Senior Lecturer in Computer Vision and Machine Learning
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Dr Frank Guerin
Deputy Head of the Nature Inspired Computing and Engineering Group
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Professor Yaochu Jin
Distinguished Chair, Professor in Computational Intelligence
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Dr Diptesh Kanojia
Lecturer in Artificial Intelligence for Natural Language Processing
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Professor Paul Krause
Emeritus Professor
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Dr Yunpeng Li
Senior Lecturer in Artificial Intelligence
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Dr Alaa Marshan
Senior Lecturer in Intelligent Data Analysis
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Dr Sotiris Moschoyiannis
Reader in Complex Systems
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Dr Pedro Porto Buarque De Gusmao
Lecturer in Computer Science
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Dr Pedro Porto Buarque De Gusmao
Lecturer in Computer Science
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Dr Alireza Tamaddoni Nezhad
Reader (Associate Professor) in Machine Learning and Computational Intelligence
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Professor H Lilian Tang
Professor in Artificial Intelligence
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Dr Tom Thorne
Senior Lecturer; Programme Lead of MSc Data Science
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Dr Xilu Wang
Surrey Future Fellow
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Dr Lu Yin
Assistant Professor in AI
Research staff
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Dr Handing Wang
Research Fellow
Visiting staff
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Yu Chen
Visiting Researcher
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George M Saleh
Visiting Professor
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Markus Olhofer
Visiting Professor
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Tunde Peto
Visiting Reader
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Saeid Sanei
Visiting Reader
Postgraduate research students
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Ghazal Afroozimilani
Postgraduate Research Student
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Katherine Birch
Postgraduate Research Student
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Dr Xiongjie Chen
Postdoctoral Researcher
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Chen Tang
Postgraduate Research Student
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Dany Varghese
Postgraduate Research Student
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Duong Vo
Postgraduate Research Student
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Hao Wen
Postgraduate Research Student
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Aaron Wing
Doctoral Candidate
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Guoyang Xie
Postgraduate Research Student