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Friday, November 11, 2011 4:33 PM Posted by Benjamin

I am currently a third year Ph.D. candidate in the Robust Autonomy and Decisions (RAD) group under the Institute of Perception, Action and Behaviour (IPAB) in the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh. My research interests very broadly involve intelligent decision-making in the presence of strategic adversaries (presented in the context of robots operating in the real world) and I am being supervised by Dr Subramanian Ramamoorthy.

Previously, I completed my M.Sc. in Artificial Intelligence (specialising in Intelligent Robotics, and Learning from Data) in the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh. I have also qualified with a B.Sc. (majoring in Computer Science, and Computational and Applied Mathemetics) from the University of the Witwatersrand, as well as a subsequent B.Sc.Hons in Computer Science, and a B.Sc.Hons in Computational and Applied Mathematics, both from the same university.

I am being funded by a bursary from the Mobile Intelligent Autonomous Systems (MIAS) unit at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) in South Africa.

I was born and lived most of my life in Johannesburg, the heart of the most beautiful and captivating country in the world -- South Africa. Recently, I decided to venture out into the great wilderness of Edinburgh, Scotland for some specialised postgraduate training.

I am the tutor for the M.Sc. course Structure and Synthesis of Robot Motion (SSRM) for the third year running, and have served as the Informatics Social Convener.