Staff profile

Benedict Jones is a PhD student in the Department of engineering. He graduated in General Engineering (specialising in electronics) with a first-class MEng honours degree from Durham University in 2019.

Research

Benedict’s research focuses on Evolution in-Materio processors, where nanomaterial networks are exploited to perform computation. This belongs to the field of unconventional computing and overlaps with other areas including physical reservoir computing and extreme learning machines.

• Evolution in-Materio
• Unconventional Computing
• Evolvable Processors
• Physical Reservoir Computing
• Extreme Learning Machines

Conference Paper

• Jones, Benedict A. H., Al Moubayed, Noura, Zeze, Dagou A. & Groves, Chris (2022), Enhanced Methods for Evolution in-Materio Processors, IEEE International Conference on Rebooting Computing (ICRC 2021). Virtual, IEEE.

Journal Article

• Jones, Benedict A. H., Chouard, John L. P., Branco, Bianca C. C., Vissol-Gaudin, Eléonore G. B., Pearson, Christopher, Petty, Michael C., Al Moubayed, Noura, Zeze, Dagou A. & Groves, Chris (2022). Towards Intelligently Designed Evolvable Processors. Evolutionary Computation