Prof. Andy Tyrrell
 

Prof. Andy Tyrrell BSc, PhD (Aston), CEng, FIET, SeniorMIEEE

Head of Intelligent Systems Research Group

Email: amt2@ohm.york.ac.uk
Homepage: http://www.elec.york.ac.uk/intsys/users/amt/index.shtml
Tel: +44 (0)1904 32 2340
Fax: +44 (0)1904 32 2461
Research Area: Intelligent Systems Group > Bio-Inspired Architectures Lab

I received a 1st class honours degree in 1982 and a PhD in 1985, both in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. I joined the Electronics Department at York University in April 1990, and was promoted to the Chair of Digital Electronics in 1998. Previous to that I was a Senior Lecturer at Coventry Polytechnic. Between August 1987 and August 1988 I was visiting research fellow at Ecole Polytechnic Lausanne Switzerland, where I was researching into the evaluation and performance of multiprocessor systems. From September 1973 to September 1979 I worked for STC at Paignton Devon, on the design and development of high frequency devices.

 

My main research interests are in the design of biologically-inspired architectures, artificial immune systems, evolvable hardware, FPGA system design, fault tolerant design, and real-time systems. In particular, over the last 8 years my research group at York has concentrated on bio-inspired systems. This work has included the creation of embryonic processing array, intrinsic evolvable hardware systems, including the RISA chip and the immunotronics hardware architecture. I am Head of the Intelligent Systems research group at York and was Head of Department between 2000 and 2007. I was General Programme Chair for ICES 2003 and Programme Chair for IPCAT2005, I will be General Chair for CEC 2009. I have published over 210 papers in these areas, and have attracted funds in excess of £4M.

 

I am a Senior member of the IEEE, and a Fellow of the IET.

 

Professional Activities:

Head of the Intelligent Systems research group.

Associate editor of IEE Proceedings-Computers and Digital Techniques.

Associate editor of IEEE Trans. on Evolutionary Computation.

Chair of IEEE Task Force on Evolvable Hardware.

General Chair for IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, Trondheim, Norway, May 2009.

 

Research Interests:

Biologically-inspired architectures: embryonics, immunotronics, evolvable architectures; fault tolerant computer systems; distributed processor systems; models for concurrent systems and application of parallel systems.

 

Current Research Project:

Self-healing Cellular Architectures for Biologically-inspired Highly Reliable Electronic Systems (SABRE)  (EPSRC)

Artificial Biochemical Networks: Computational Models and Architectures (ALBINO) (EPSRC)

Molecular Software and Hardware for Programmed Chemical Synthesis (EPSRC)

Symbiotic Evolutionary Robot Organisms (SYMBRION) (EU FP7)

CoSMoS: Complex Systems Modelling and Simulation (EPSRC)

Software-controlled Assembly of Oligomers (EPSRC)

Automatic Design of Adaptive Systems using Unconstrained Evolution and Development on the POEtic Platform (EPSRC)

An Extensible Architecture for Homeostasis in Electronic Systems (xArcH) (EPSRC)

Meeting the design challenges of the nano-CMOS electronics (EPSRC)

 

Teaching Interests:

Digital and computer systems. Evolvable hardware and evolutionary computation.

 

 

 

Latest 30 Publications

  • Qadir, O., Liu, J., Tempesti, G., Timmis, J. and Tyrrell, A.M., From Bidirectional Associative Memory to a noise-tolerant, robust Protein Processor Associative Memory, Artificial Intelligence, 175:673-693, January, 2011
  • Kuyucu, T., Trefzer, M.A., Miller, J.F. and Tyrrell, A.M., An Investigation of the Importance of Mechanisms and Parameters in a Multicellular Developmental System, IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, in press2011
  • P. Bremner, M. Samie, G. Dragffy, A. Pipe, J.A. Walker and A.M. Tyrrell, Evolving Digital Circuits Using Complex Building Blocks, Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Evolvable Systems: From Biology to Hardware (ICES), York, September, 2010
  • J.A. Walker, J.A. Hilder and A.M. Tyrrell, Measuring the Performance and Intrinsic Variability of Evolved Circuits, Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Evolvable Systems: From Biology to Hardware (ICES), York, September, 2010
  • J.A. Walker, Y. Liu, G. Tempesti and A.M. Tyrrell, Automatic Code Generation on a MOVE Processor using Cartesian Genetic Programming, Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Evolvable Systems: From Biology to Hardware (ICES), York, September, 2010
  • Zhan, S., Miller, J.F. and Tyrrell, A.M., Modular Design from Gene Regulation in a Cellular System, 12th IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC10), Barcelona, Spain, July, 2010
  • Bi, R., Timmis, J. and Tyrrell, A.M., The Diagnostic Dendritic Cell Algorithm for Robotic Systems, 12th IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC10), Barcelona, Spain, July, 2010
  • Greenwood, G. and Tyrrell, A.M., Metamorphic Systems: A New Model for Adaptive System Design, 12th IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC10), Barcelona, Spain, July, 2010
  • Qadir, O., Liu, J., Timmis, J., Tempesti, G and Tyrrell, A.M., Principles of Protein Processing for a Self-Organising Associative Memory, 12th IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC10), Barcelona, Spain, July, 2010
  • J.A. Hilder, J.A. Walker and A.M. Tyrrell, Use of a Multi-Objective Fitness Function to Improve Cartesian Genetic Programming Circuits, Proceedings of the NASA/ESA Conference on Adaptive Hardware and Systems, 185-191, Anaheim, USA, June, 2010
  • Trefzer, M., Kuyucu, T., Miller, J.F. and Tyrrell, A.M., Image Compression of Natural Images using Artificial Gene Regulatory Networks, GECCO, Portland, USA, June, 2010
  • M. A. Lones, A. M. Tyrrell, S. Stepney and L. S. Caves, Controlling Complex Dynamics with Artificial Biochemical Networks, Proc. European Conference on Genetic Programming (EuroGP) 2010, April, 2010
  • Owens, N., Timmis, J., Greensted, A. J. and Tyrrell, A.M., Elucidation of T Cell Signalling Models, Journal of Theoretical Biology, 262(3):452-470, February, 2010
  • Timmis, J., Tyrrell, A.M., Mokhtar, M., Ismai, A., Owens, N. Bi, R., An Artificial Immune System for Robot Organisms -Symbiotic Multi-Robot Organisms: Reliability, Adaptability and Evolution, Springer, 2010
  • Howard, D.M., Tyrrell, A.M. and Cooper C., Evolution of adult male oral tract shapes for close and open vowels -Genetic and Evolutionary Computation: Medical Applications, John Wiley & Sons, 2010
  • J.A. Walker, R.O. Sinnott, G. Stewart, J.A. Hilder and A.M. Tyrrell, Optimizing Electronic Standard Cell Libraries For Variability Tolerance Through The Nano-CMOS Grid, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, 368(1925):3967-3981, 2010
  • Zhan, S., Miller, J.F. and Tyrrell, A.M., An Evolutionary System using Development and Artificial Genetic Regulatory Networks for Electronic Circuit Design, Biosystems, 98(3):176-192, 0303-2647, December, 2009
  • Santini, C.C. and Tyrrell, A.M., Self-Organisation and Synchronisation in Electronic Systems, IEEE Transactions on NanoBioscience, 8(3):237-251, September, 2009
  • Tüze Kuyucu, Martin A. Trefzer, Julian F. Miller and Andy M. Tyrrell, A Scalable Solution to N-bit Parity via Artificial Development, 5th international conference on Ph.D. Research in Microelectronics and Electronics (PRIME), Cork, Ireland, July, 2009
  • Shayani, H. Bentley, P.J. and Tyrrell, A.M., A Multi-cellular Developmental Representation for Evolution of Adaptive Spiking Neural Microcircuits in an FPGA, International NASA/ESA Conference on Adaptive Hardware and Systems, 3-10, San Francisco, July, 2009
  • J.A. Hilder, J.A. Walker and A.M. Tyrrell, Designing Variability Tolerant Logic using Evolutionary Algorithms, 5th International Conference on Ph.D. Research in Microelectronics & Electronics (PRIME), Cork, Ireland, July, 2009
  • Hilder, J., Walker, J. and Tyrrell, A.M., Optimising Variability Tolerant Standard Cell Libraries, 11th IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, 2273-2280, Trondheim, Norway, May, 2009
  • Kuyucu, T., Trefzer, M., Miller, J.F. and Tyrrell, A.M., Task Decomposition and Evolvability in Intrinsic Evolvable Hardware, 11th IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, 2281-2287, Trondheim, Norway, May, 2009
  • Zhan, S., Miller, J.F. and Tyrrell, A.M., Obtaining System Robustness by Mimicking Natural Mechanisms, 11th IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, 3032-3039, Trondheim, Norway, May, 2009
  • Mokhtar, M., Bi, R., Timmis, J. and Tyrrell, A.M., A Modified Dendritic Cell Algorithm for On-line Error Detection in Robotic Systems, 11th IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, 2055-2062, Trondheim, Norway, May, 2009
  • Trefzer, M., Kuyucu, T., Miller, J.F. and Tyrrell, A.M., A Model for Intrinsic Artificial Development Featuring Structural Feedback and Emergent Growth, 11th IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, 301-308, Trondheim, Norway, May, 2009
  • M. A. Trefzer, T. Kuyucu, J. F. Miller and A. M. Tyrrell, A Model for Intrinsic Artificial Development Featuring Structural Feedback and Emergent Growth, IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC), Trondheim, Norway, May, 2009
  • T. Kuyucu, M. A. Trefzer, J. F. Miller and A. M. Tyrrell, Task Decomposition and Evolvability in Intrinsic Evolvable Hardware, IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC), Trondheim, Norway, May, 2009
  • Walker, J., Hilder, J. and Tyrrell, A.M., Towards Evolving Industry-feasible Intrinsic Variability Tolerant CMOS Designs, 11th IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, 1591-1598, Trondheim, Norway, May, 2009
  • M. A. Trefzer, T. Kuyucu, J. F. Miller and A. M. Tyrrell, The Input Pattern Order Problem II: Evolution of Multiple-Output Circuits in Hardware, IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (ISSCI), Nashville, USA, March, 2009
  • T. Kuyucu, M. A. Trefzer, J. F. Miller and A. M. Tyrrell, On the Properties of Artificial Development and Its Use in Evolvable Hardware, IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (ISSCI), Nashville, USA, March, 2009

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