Professor Simon Lucas
Professor and Head of School & Turing Fellow
School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science
Peter Landin, CS 311
Tel +44 20 7882 5989
simon.lucas@qmul.ac.uk
www.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/profiles/lucassimon.html
Research
Game AI Research, reinforcement learning, evolutionary algorithms, combinatorial bandit algorithms
Interests
His research involves developing and applying computational intelligence techniques to build better game AI, use AI to design better games, provide deep insights into the nature of intelligence and work towards Artificial General Intelligence.
Grants
Grants of specific relevance to Applied Data Science
EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Intelligent Games & Game Intelligence (IGGI)Tanaka A, Perez-Liebana D, Ursu MF, Colton S, Cairns PA, Latham W, Kruschwitz U, Bartle RA, Lucas SM and Gow J
£5,592,701 Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (31-03-2014 - 29-09-2022)