Dawood Basharat

Email: fe20023@bristol.ac.uk

PhD supervisors: Edmund Hunt, Helmut Hauser

PhD project title: Persistent Robot Swarms: Developing a Framework for High-Level Plasticity

Research group: Soft Robotics

Biography

Studying computer science at Birmingham City University, and robotics at the postgraduate level at University of Birmingham, I developed a passion for AI, evolutionary computing, artificial life, and of course, robotics. I find inspiration from nature, so I am naturally drawn to fields such as swarm and evolutionary robotics. I endeavour to produce research which aids the natural world, be it environmental and ecological monitoring or increasing understanding of natural systems- such as insect behaviour and evolutionary dynamics.