Peter Andras
peter andras

Prof Peter Andras

Dean of School of Computing Engineering and the Built Environment

 0131 455 2456

  P.Andras@napier.ac.uk

  

Biography

Professor Peter Andras is the Dean of the Schools of Computing and Engineering & the Built Environment since August 2021.

Previously Peter was the Head of the School of Computing and Mathematics (2017 – 2021) and Professor of Computer Science and Informatics at Keele University from 2014 – 2021. Prior to this he worked at Newcastle University in the School of Computing (2002 – 2014) and the Department of Psychology (2000 – 2002).

He has a PhD in Mathematical Analysis of Artificial Neural Networks (2000), MSc in Artificial Intelligence (1996) and BSc in Computer Science (1995), all from the Babes-Bolyai University, Romania.

Peter’s research interests span a range of subjects including artificial intelligence, machine learning, complex systems, agent-based modelling, software engineering, systems theory, neuroscience, modelling and analysis of biological and social systems. He has worked on many research projects, mostly in collaboration with other researchers in computer science, psychology, chemistry, electronic engineering, mathematics, economics and other areas. His research projects have received around £2.5 million funding, his papers have been cited by over 2,400 times and his h-index is 25 according to Google Scholar.

Peter has extensive experience of working with industry, including several KTP projects and three university spin-out companies, one of which is on the London Stock Exchange since 2007 – eTherapeutics plc.

Peter is member of the Board of Governors of the International Neural Network Society (INNS), Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology, Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and member of the UK Computing Research Committee (UKCRC), IEEE Computer Society, Society for Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour (AISB), International Society for Artificial Life (ISAL) and the Society for Neuroscience (SfN).

Peter serves on the EPSRC Peer Review College, the Royal Society International Exchanges Panel and the Royal Society APEX Awards Review College. He is also regularly serving as review panel member and project assessor for EU funding agencies.

Outside academia, Peter has an interest in politics and community affairs. He served as local councillor in Newcastle upon Tyne, parish councillor in Keele and stood in general elections for the Parliament. He has experience of working with and leading community organisations and leading a not-for-profit regional development consultancy and project management organisation.

School

Esteem

Grant Funding Panel Member

  • EPSRC grant panel member
  • EU Horizon 2020 / Horizon Europe / FP6 / FP7 grant panel member
  • Austria FIT IT grant panel member

 

Grant Reviewer

  • Leverhulme Trust grant reviewer
  • MRC grant reviewer
  • Austria FIT IT grant reviewer
  • BBSRC grant reviewer
  • EPSRC grant reviewer
  • EU Horizon 2020 / Horizon Europe / FP6 / FP7 grant reviewer

 

Filter by

Date


163 results

Fault tolerance and network integrity measures: the case of computer-based systems

Conference Proceeding
Andras, P., Idowu, O., & Periorellis, P. (2006)
Fault tolerance and network integrity measures: the case of computer-based systems. In AISB'06: Network Analysis in Natural Sciences and Engineering
Fault tolerance is a key aspect of the dependability of complex computer-based systems. Fault tolerance may be difficult to measure directly in complex real world systems, and...

High-resolution multiple-unit EEG in cat auditory cortex reveals large spatio-temporal stochastic interactions

Journal Article
Wennekers, T., Ay, N., & Andras, P. (2007)
High-resolution multiple-unit EEG in cat auditory cortex reveals large spatio-temporal stochastic interactions. BioSystems, 89(1-3), 190-197. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biosystems.2006.04.017
It has been argued that information processing in the cortex is optimised with regard to certain information theoretic principles. We have, for instance, recently shown that s...

Cortical activity pattern computation

Journal Article
Andras, P., & Wennekers, T. (2007)
Cortical activity pattern computation. BioSystems, 87(2-3), 179-185. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biosystems.2006.09.012
Neural computations are modelled in various ways, but still there is no clear understanding of how the brain performs its computational tasks. This paper presents new results ...

Extraction of an activity pattern language from EEG data

Journal Article
Andras, P. (2006)
Extraction of an activity pattern language from EEG data. Neurocomputing, 69(10-12), 1313-1316. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neucom.2005.12.099
Recent research shows that activity patterns play an important role in neural information processing. This seems to be the case both at micro- and macro-level processes within...

Managing Missed Interactions in Distributed Virtual Environments

Conference Proceeding
Parkin, S., Andras, P., & Morgan, G. (2006)
Managing Missed Interactions in Distributed Virtual Environments. In EGVE'06: Proceedings of the 12th Eurographics conference on Virtual Environments (27-34
A scalable distributed virtual environment (DVE) may be achieved by ensuring virtual world objects communicate their actions to only those objects that fall within their influ...

How should we rate research?: Counting number of publications may be best research performance measure

Journal Article
Charlton, B. G., & Andras, P. (2006)
How should we rate research?: Counting number of publications may be best research performance measure. BMJ, 332, 1214. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.332.7551.1214-c

Globalization in science education: An inevitable and beneficial trend

Journal Article
Charlton, B. G., & Andras, P. (2006)
Globalization in science education: An inevitable and beneficial trend. Medical Hypotheses, 66(5), 869-873. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mehy.2006.01.002

Uncertainty and cooperation: Analytical results and a simulated agent society

Journal Article
Andras, P., Lazarus, J., Roberts, G., & Lynden, S. J. (2006)
Uncertainty and cooperation: Analytical results and a simulated agent society. Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, 9(1),
Uncertainty is an important factor that influences social evolution in natural and artificial environments. Here we distinguish between three aspects of uncertainty. Environme...

The origins of life - the ‘protein interaction world’ hypothesis: protein interactions were the first form of self-reproducing life and nucleic acids evolved later as memory molecules

Journal Article
Andras, P., & Andras, C. (2005)
The origins of life - the ‘protein interaction world’ hypothesis: protein interactions were the first form of self-reproducing life and nucleic acids evolved later as memory molecules. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mehy.2004.11.029
The ‘protein interaction world’ (PIW) hypothesis of the origins of life assumes that life emerged as a self-reproducing and expanding system of protein interactions. In mainst...

Systems theoretic analysis of structures in organisations

Conference Proceeding
Andras, P., & Charlton, B. G. (2005)
Systems theoretic analysis of structures in organisations. In Complexity, Science and Society Conference

Current Post Grad projects