My research interests lie in computational science, including modelling and efficient simulation of electrical activity and arrhythmias in heart tissue, and applying computational intelligence techniques to problems in biomedicine and systems biology. I am also currently interested in the pedagogy of introductory programming, specifically the development of students' initial skills in understanding and developing basic algorithms. If you are interested in pursuing a self-funded PhD or a masters or undergraduate project in one of these areas, then please feel free to send me an email. I also maintain a list of suggestions for projects related to my research.
I am course leader for the BSc Computer Science, BSc Software Engineering and MSc Software Engineering degree courses, and I teach on the INTPROG/INTSTPR (Introduction to Programming), FORMP (Formal Methods in Software Engineering) and PROCAP (Programming Language Concepts and Paradigms) units.
Recent publications:
- K Kentzoglanakis and M Poole, A Swarm Intelligence Framework for Reconstructing Gene Networks: Searching for Biologically Plausible Architectures, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics 9 (2012), 358-371. [link]
- M J Poole, Simulation of cardiac action potential propagation using hybrid models, Computing in Cardiology 37 (2010), 633-636. [link]
- K A Parker, S Glaysher, M Polak, F G Gabriel, P Johnson, L A Knight, M Poole, A Narayanan, J Hurren and I A Cree, The molecular basis of the chemosensitivity of metastatic cutaneous melanoma to chemotherapy, Journal of Clinical Pathology 63 (2010), 1012-1020. [link]
- S Glaysher, F G Gabriel, P Johnson, M E Polak, L A Knight, K Parker, M Poole, A Narayanan, and I A Cree, Molecular basis of chemosensitivity of platinum pre-treated ovarian cancer to chemotherapy, British Journal of Cancer 103 (2010), 656-662. [link]
- S Glaysher, D Yiannakis, F G Gabriel, P Johnson, M E Polak, L A Knight, Z Goldthorpe, K Peregrin, M Gyi, P Modi, J Rahamim, M E Smith, K Amer, B Addis, M Poole, A Narayanan, T J Gulliford, P E Andreotti and I A Cree, Resistance gene expression determines the in vitro chemosensitivity of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), BMC Cancer 9 (2009), 300. [link]
- K Kentzoglanakis and M Poole, Gene network inference using a swarm intelligence framework, in proceedings of GECCO 2009: Genetic And Evolutionary Computation, ACM 2009, 2709-2712. [link]
- K Kentzoglanakis and M Poole, Particle swarm optimization with an oscillating inertia weight, in proceedings of GECCO 2009: Genetic And Evolutionary Computation, ACM 2009, 1749-1750. [link]
- K Kentzoglanakis, M Poole and C Adams, Incorporating heuristics in a swarm intelligence framework for inferring gene regulatory networks from gene expression time series, in ANTS 2008: Ant Colony Optimization and Swarm Intelligence, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 5217, Springer-Verlag 2008, 323-330. [link]
A complete publication list is available here.
PhD students:
- Kyriakos Kentzoglanakis (2007-10, completed), now at MRC National Institute for Medical Research, London.