Will Browne

Please Note

This person can no longer be contacted through the School of Engineering and Computer Science at Victoria University of Wellington

Qualifications

BEng (Bath, UK), MSc (Cardiff, UK), EngD (Cardiff, UK), CEng (MIMechE)

After 11 1/2 wonderful years at VUW, I have now moved to QUT in Australia. I maintain close research links with VUW, including co-supervising doctorate & research students.

Research Interests

My main area of research is Artificial Cognitive Systems. Essentially, how to use inspiration from natural intelligence to enable computers/machines/robots to behave usefully. This includes:

• Cognitive Robotics
• Learning Classifier Systems (a branch of evolutionary computation) and
• Modern Heuristics for industrial application.

Industrial and business links have been through doctorate studies (four years with British Steel/Corus), postdoctoral work (three years with British Aluminium/Alcoa) and applied research work (Knowledge Transfer Partnerships). Experience and expertise in Rolling Mills, along with application of Artificial Intelligence techniques, heuristics and modern information technology systems to real-world problems has led to successful project outcomes. Blue skies research includes analogues of emotions, abstraction, memory systems, small worlds phenomenon, confusion/dissonance and machine consciousness.

Publications

For a list of my recent publications, please see My List of Publications or the Publications Database.