Dr. Seth Bullock

Biography

Seth Bullock received a BA in Cognitive Science and a DPhil in Evolutionary Simulation Modelling from the University of Sussex. He spent over a decade at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin, where he focused on simulating evolution and adaptive decision-making behaviors in both humans and animals. In 1999, he was awarded a five-year University Research Fellowship at the University of Leeds, where he founded the Biosystems research group and became a lecturer in 2004. In October 2005, he joined the University of Southampton as a Senior Lecturer and helped establish the Science and Engineering Natural Systems (SENSe) research group, eventually becoming the head of the group and director of the Institute for Complex Systems Simulation (ICSS). He was promoted to Professor of Computer Science in 2011 and contributed to the formation of the Agents, Interaction, and Complexity (AIC) research group. In 2015, he became the Toshiba Chair in Data Science and Simulation at the University of Bristol's Department of Computer Science. His main research interest lies in complex systems simulation, focusing on the application of modeling techniques from artificial intelligence and complexity science to understand how complex systems behave. He has worked on problems spanning archaeology, zoology, life sciences, and social sciences, particularly in self-organization and adaptation in engineered and computational ecosystems.

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