Research Interests

My current research interests involve the use of component technologies and the Model Driven Architecture for distributed simulation using the HLA infrastructure. This research is commercial in nature.

My Ph.D. project involves an investigation into the role that development plays in the learning process in biological systems, and how this development can be applied to neural networks (especially self organising maps). My principle supervisor was Prof. Svetha Venkatesh, with additional supervision coming from Dr Garry Briscoe and Dr Masahiro Takatsuka.

My Honours project involved an attempt to solve physics problems that are considered intractable by formal mathematics, and chaotic by finite element methods. Specifically, I am attempting to model Edward Lorenz's Butterfly Effect system (See his 1963 paper in J.Atmos.Sci.) using a cascade correlation neural network as a correction mechanism on an initial low resolution numerical prediction. It was performed under the supervision of Prof. Terry Caelli and Dr C. Peng Lam.