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Professor Dominic Palmer-Brown

Dean of the Faculties of Computing and Life Sciences

Professor Dominic Palmer-Brown
Office: T8-04 Tower Building
Telephone: 020 7133 4003
Internal 4003
e-mail address:
d.palmer-brown@londonmet.ac.uk

Research
My research covers neural computing methods for data mining, processing language, and modelling interaction such as in virtual learning environments. I have supervised 12 PhDs to completion and was the neural network specialist on a 5 year UN/NERC/DoE funded crops data analysis project involving 15 countries, 1995-2000. I have also received funding from JISC, BT Research Labs, KTP and EPSRC Case Studentships. I was Editor of the journal Trends in Cognitive Sciences, Elsevier Science London in 2001-2, and have published about 80 papers overall, with some best paper commendations at international conferences. Invited keynotes have included presentations at the European Simulation Multiconference, 2003; The 10th Int. Conference on Engineering Applications of Neural Networks, 2007; The WSEAS Int. Conference on Neural Networks, Sofia, 2008; and the forthcoming 5th IFIP Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications and Innovations, 2009. Publications include articles in many journals such as IEEE Transactions in Neural Networks, Neurocomputing, Connection Science, Ecological Modelling and Information Sciences. I am currently guest editor for a special issue of the journal Neurocomputing.

Brief biography
I studied at Leeds University (BSc, Electrical and Electronic Engineering), Plymouth University (MSc (Dist), Intelligent Systems), and Nottingham University (PhD, Neural Networks). My career has included software and electronic engineering; teaching and subject coordination in many areas of computing; research in virtual learning environments, intelligent systems and most of all neural networks. I was the editor of the Elsevier review journal, Trends in Cognitive Sciences, and professor of neurocomputing, at Leeds Metropolitan University. I have also worked for GEC Marconi, British Aerospace, Nottingham Trent University and the publishers Elsevier Science London. I was Associate Dean of the School of Computing and Technology at UEL, and in 2009 became Dean of Computing, London Metropolitan University.

Examples of external and scholarly activities

  1. Editor, Trends in Cognitive Sciences 2000-2; Associate Editor, Int Conf on Artificial Intelligence 2000. Co-editor, Advances in Computing and Technology, UEL, 2006 and 2007; and International Conference on Global eSecurity, 2006, 2007, 2008. Guest Editor, Special Issue on Industrial Applications, Neurocomputing, 2009.
  2. Invited lectures: Café Scientifique 1999, 2001, on AI and the Future; Dortmund University, 2003: Neural Networks; IT Center, Dortmund, 2003: Neural Networks; ESM2003 Keynote Plenary on Fast Learning Neural Nets; Inuagural lecture on Neurocomputing, Leeds Met, 2004; Keynote on Modal Learning Neural Networks, 10th Int. Conf. on Engineering Applications of Neural Networks, EANN 2007; Keynote on Modal Learning Neural Networks, WSEAS Int Conf on Neural Networks, May 2008. Keynote on Modal and Virtual Learning at 5th IFIP Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications & Innovations, AIAI 2009.
  3. Organiser: UN ECE Workshop on Neural Networks for Data Analysis, Holland, 1998; Session organiser: Neural Networks for Data Analysis and Knowledge Engineering, ICAI’00; Track and session organiser: Artificial Intelligence, ESM2003; General Co-Chair, Int. Conf. on Global eSecurity, ICGeS06 and Senior Programme Committee, ICGeS07. International Organising Committees: ICAI'00, ESM2003, ESM2004, Computational Intelligence and Security, CIS'06 and CIS'07, 10th Int. Conf. on Engineering Applications of Neural Networks, 2007. General Chair, 11th Int. Conf. on engineering Applications of Neural Networks, 2009.
  4. Reviewing and refereeing for journals: Neural Computing and Applications; Trends in Cognitive Sciences; Brain and Behavioural Sciences; Bioinformatics; Software Quality. Reviewer for NERC, BBSRC on neural computing proposals. Reviewing/refereeing for conferences: and many international conferences on Artificial Intelligence and Neural Networks.
  5. Founding Chair, Café Scientifique, Nottingham, 1999-2001.
  6. Founder and Leader of the Intelligent Systems and Learning Environments (ISLE), 2000-1, and Computational Intelligence (2003-5) research groups, Leeds Metropolitan University;
  7. External examiner, Northampton University, Computing degrees, 2006- present
  8. External advisor to: Bedfordshire University, validation of computing masters programmes, 2007; London Metropolitan University, approval of new computing undergraduate and postgraduate programmes, 2008; Canterbury Christ Church University, approval of masters in computing, 2008.
  9. PhD examining: Nottingham Trent, Electronic Engineering; Nottingham Trent, Computing; Leeds Metropolitan University, Information Management; Sunderland University, Computing; Northampton University, Engineering and Technology; University of the Arts, London; Computing and Technology, University of East London.
  10. Supervision of research fellows, assistants, and PhD supervision (12 PhDs to completion). Currently supervising 5 PhDs (UEL, SMARTlab).

Publications:

Journals

  1. D Palmer-Brown, C Jayne (2011). Snap-drift neural network for self-organisation and sequence learning. Neural Networks, volume 24, issue 8. Pages 897-905.
  2. Aleman, J. L. F., Palmer-Brown, D., Jayne, C. "Effects of Response Driven Feedback in Computer Science Learning", vol 54, no. 3, IEEE Transactions on Education (2010), pp. 501-8.
  3. Palmer-Brown, D.; S. W. Lee.; Draganova, C. and Kang, M. "Modal Learning Neural Networks." WSAES Transactions on Computers, vol. 8, no. 2, pp. 222 - 236.(2009)
  4. F Ekpenyong, D Palmer-Brown and A Brimicombe. Extracting road information from recorded GPS data using snap-drift neural networks. Neurocomputing, volume73, Issues 1-3, 2009.
  5. Miao Kang and Dominic Palmer-Brown. A Modal Learning Adaptive Function Neural Network Applied to Handwritten Digit Recognition. Information Sciences, Volume 178, Issue 20, 2008, pp 3802-3812.
  6. Helen Donelan, Colin Pattinson, Dominic Palmer-Brown (2006).The Analysis of User Behaviour of a Network Management Training Tool using a Neural Network, Volume 3, Number 5, 2006. Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics
  7. Dominic Palmer-Brown and Sin Wee Lee. Continuous Reinforced Snap-Drift Learning in a Neural Architecture for Proxylet Selection in Active Computer Networks. International Journal of Simulation Systems, Science & Technology. Special Issue on: Intelligent Systems. Volume 6, Number 9, August 2005
  8. H. Donelan, C. Pattinson, D. Palmer-Brown and S.W. Lee. The Analysis of Network Managers' Behaviour. International Journal of Simulation Systems, Science & Technology. Special Issue on: Intelligent Systems. Volume 6, Number 9, August 2005
  9. Sin Wee Lee, Dominic Palmer-Brown, Christopher M. Roadknight (2004). Performance-guided neural network for rapidly self-organising active network management. [Invited paper] Neurocomputing, 61C: 5 - 20.
  10. C. Roadknight, D. Palmer-Brown, D. Al-Dabass (2003). Simulation of Correlation Activity Pruning Methods to Enhance Transparency of ANNs. Int. Journal of Simulation, Science, Systems and Technology 4(2): 68-74.
  11. Palmer-Brown D, Tepper J, Powell H. Connectionist Natural Language Parsing. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 6, 10, 2002.
  12. Tepper J, Powell H, Palmer-Brown D. A corpus-based connectionist architecture for large-scale natural language parsing. Connection Science 14, 2, 2002.
  13. Ball G, Palmer-Brown D, Fuhrer J, Skarby L, Gimeno B and Mills G. Identification of non-linear influences on the seasonal ozone dose response of sensitive and resistant clover clones using artificial neural networks. Ecological Modelling, 2000.
  14. Benton J, Fuhrer J, Gimeno B, Skarby L, Palmer-Brown D, Ball G, Roadknight C, and Mills G. The widespread occurrence of injury on crops caused by ambient ozone episodes in Europe. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment 2000.
  15. G Mills, G Ball, D Palmer-Brown et al. "Identifying factors which modify the effects of ambient ozone on white clover (Trifolium repens L.) in Europe". Environmental Pollution.103, 7-16 , 1998.
  16. Roadknight C, Balls G, Mills G, Palmer-Brown D (1997). Modeling Complex Environmental Data. IEEE Trans. on Neural Networks, 8, 4, July 1997.
  17. Callan R, Palmer-Brown D. (1997). (S)RAAM: An Analytical Technique for Fast and Reliable Derivation of Connectionist Symbol Structure Representations. Connection Science 9, 2, 1997, pp. 139-159.
  18. G Balls, D Palmer-Brown, G. Sanders (1996) "The Use of Artificial Neural Networks to Model Plant Environment Interactions" Pesticide Science, vol 46,1996, pp. 280-281.
  19. H M Powell, D Palmer-Brown (1996) "Computer-Aided Learning in Computing" in Innovation: Teaching and Learning Journal of The Nottingham Trent University, Issue 1, July 1996, ISBN 1364-0607
  20. G Balls, D Palmer Brown, A H Cobb, G E Sanders (1995). "Towards unravelling the complex interactions between microclimate, ozone dose and ozone injury in clover". Journal of Water, Air and Soil Pollution, 85, pp. 1467-1472.

Recent Conference Proceedings

  1. Ekpenyong, F and Palmer-Brown, D. (2007) Updating of Road Network Databases: Spatio-temporal trajectory grouping using snap-drift neural network. Proc. Int Conf on Engineering Applications of Neural Networks, EANN2007.
  2. Kang, M and Palmer-Brown, D. (2007) Snap-drift Adaptive Function Neural Network for Pen-based Recognition of Handwritten Digits. Proc. Int Conf on Engineering Applications of Neural Networks, EANN2007.
  3. Ekpenyong, F., Brimicombe, A., and Palmer-Brown, D. (2007) Updating Road Network Databases: Road Segment Grouping Using Snap-Drift Neural Network. Geograpical Information Science Research Conference (GISRUK07).
  4. Lee, S. W. and D. Palmer-Brown (2006). Phonetic Feature Discovery in Speech using Snap-Drift. International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (ICANN'2006). Athens, Greece, 10th - 14th September 2006, S. Kollias et al. (Eds.): ICANN 2006 pp. 952 - 962.
  5. Lee, S. W. and D. Palmer-Brown (2006). Modal Learning in A Neural Network. 1st Conference in Advances in Computing and Technology (London, United Kingdom, 24th January), pp. 42 - 47.
  6. Miao Kang and Dominic Palmer-Brown. A Multilayer ADaptive FUnction Neural Network (MADFUNN) for Analytical Function Recognition. Accepted for Intenational Joint Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (2006).
  7. Lee, S. W. and D. Palmer-Brown (2005). Phrase Recognition using Snap-Drift Learning Algorithm.The International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN'2005) (Montreal, Canada, 31st July - 4th August).
  8. Dominic Palmer-Brown and Sin Wee Lee. Snap-drift Learning for Phrase Recognition. Intenational Joint Conference on Artificial Neural Networks. 2005.
  9. Dominic Palmer-Brown and Miao Kang. An Adaptive Function Neural Network (ADFUNN) for Phrase Recognition. Intenational Joint Conference on Artificial Neural Networks. 2005.
  10. Dominic Palmer-Brown and Miao Kang. ADFUNN: An Adaptive Function Neural Network. Int. Conf. on Adaptive and Natural Computing Algorithms (2005).
  11. Miao Kang and Dominic Palmer-Brown. An Adaptive Function Neural Network (ADFUNN) for Function Recognition. Proc. Advances in Computational Intelligence and Security (2005).
  12. Lee, S. W.; D. Palmer-Brown and C. M. Roadknight. (2004). "Snap-drift: Performance-guided Neural Network for Continuous Learning." Special House of Commons' Reception for Younger Researchers, House of Commons (London, UK, 15th September).
  13. D. Palmer-Brown, S W Lee, and C. M. Roadknight (2004). Reinforced Snap-Drift Learning for Proxylet Selection in Active Computer Networks, International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN'2004), Budapest, Hungary, July 2004.
  14. S. W. Lee, D. Palmer-Brown and C. M. Roadknight. (2004). Continuous Reinforced Snap-Drift Learning in a Neural Architecture for Proxylet Selection in Active Computer Networks. Proceeding of The 18th European Simulations Multiconference (ESM'2004), Magdeburg, Germany, 13th - 16th June, pp 136 - 142.
  15. H. Donelan, C. Pattinson, D. Palmer-Brown and S. W. Lee. (2004). The Analysis of Network Manager's Behaviour using a Self-Organising Neural Networks, Proceeding of The 18th European Simulations Multiconference (ESM'2004) , Magdeburg, Germany, 13th - 16th June, pp 111 - 116.
  16. H Donelan, C Pattinson, D Palmer-Brown (2004). The Analysis of User Behaviour of a Network Management Training Tool Using a Neural Network. The International Conference on Education and Information Systems: Technologies and Applications (EISTA 2004), Orlando, Florida, USA, in July 21-25, 2004. [Best Paper Award].
  17. D. Palmer-Brown, S. W. Lee, J. Tepper and C. M. Roadknight (2003). Fast Learning Neural Nets with Adaptive Learning Styles (Invited Paper), Proceeding of the 17th European Simulation Multiconference (ESM'2003), The Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, UK, 9th - 11th June 2003, pp 118 - 123.
  18. S. W. Lee, D. Palmer-Brown, J. A. Tepper and C. M. Roadknight (2003). Snap-Drift: Real-time, Performance-guided Learning, International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN'2003), Portland, Oregon, 20th - 24th July 2003.
  19. Sin Wee Lee, D Palmer-Brown, J Tepper. Performance-guided neural network for self organising network management. London Communications Symposium, UCL, 2002.
  20. Sin Wee Lee, D Palmer-Brown, J Tepper, C Roadknight. Performance-guided Neural Network for Rapidly Self-Organising Active Network Management. Proc. of Hybrid Intelligent Systems 2002 (HIS2002). [Best Paper Award].
 


 
 
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