Professor Noel Sharkey

Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield
Email: noel@dcs.shef.ac.uk
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Noel Sharkey is an interdisciplinary researcher. Currently a Professor in the department Computer Science, he holds a Doctorate in Experimental Psychology from the University of Exeter, U.K. (1982). He is a Fellow of the British Computer Society, a Fellow of the Institution of Electrical Engineers, and a member of the British Experimental Psychology Society. He has worked as a research associate in Computer Science at Yale University, USA, with the AI and Cognitive Science groups and as a senior research associate in psychology at Stanford University, USA, where he has also twice served as a visiting assistant professor. In 1984 he took up a "new blood" lectureship (English assistant professor) in Language and Linguistics at Essex University, U.K. and in 1989, became Reader in Computer Science at Exeter before accepting a chair at Sheffield University in 1994. His editorial work includes Editor-in-Chief of the journal Connection Science, editorial board of Robotics and Autonomous Systems, and editorial board of AI Review. He was Chairman of the IEE professional group A4 (AI) and founding chairman of a new IEE professional group A9 (Evolutionary and Neural Computing). He has recently edited special issues on modern developments in autonomous robotics for the journals Robotics and Autonomous Systems, Connection Science, and Autonomous Robots. Noel's intellectual pursuits currently in the area of adaptive robotics with interests including training neural net controllers, self learning robots (evolutionary and neural computing), bio-robotics, sensor-fusion, embodied cognition, developmental intelligence and engineering applications.