Lecturer in Cyber Security
<p><a href="http://complexityanddesign.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><strong><u>Complexity and Design</u></strong></a> (at the OU)<br />A highly interdisciplinary area involving fundamental research into the methods of complex systems science supported by research into the design of many domains of application. Our current rsearch <a href="http://centre-for-policing.open.ac.uk/research#systems-thinking" target="_blank">project</a>is with the Police Consortium set up by Prof Jean Hartley. We also have a UNESCO <a href="http://unitwin-cs.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">CS-DS UniTwin</a>, Complex Systems Digital Campus. See our related MOOC here: </p><p>Previous projects are:</p><ul><li>Topology driven methods in complex systems,<a href="http://www.topdrim.eu/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">TOPDRIM</a></li><li>Global systems Dynamics and Policy,<a href="http://www.gsdp.eu/about/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">GSDP</a>.</li><li><a href="http://www.etoileplatform.net/index" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Étoile</a>, EU FET Coordination Action"Enhanced Technologies for Open Intelligent Learning Environments".</li><li><a href="http://assyst.open.ac.uk/" target="_blank">ASSYST</a> a€900,000 funded Coordination Action 2009-2012 "Action for the Science of complex SYstems for Socially intelligent icT" where we were the lead partner</li></ul><p><a href="http://mct-research.open.ac.uk/research/project_naturallanguageprocessing" target="_blank"><strong><u>Information extraction and data mining</u></strong></a> (at the OU)</p><p>Copy of latest paper on this work is <a href="http://users.mct.open.ac.uk/jmb995/Finding agriculture among biodiversity.pdf" target="_blank"><u>here</u></a>; submitted to <a href="http://www.mtsr-conf.org/index.php/component/content/article/2-uncategorised/12-tracks-b" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><u>special track</u></a> at 8th Metadata and Semantic Reserach Conference</p><p>Project: <a href="http://aginfra.eu/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><u>agINFRA</u></a>: a data infrastructure to support agricultural scientific communities - promoting data sharing and development of trust in agricultural sciences. EU FP7, Capacities– Research Infrastructures. The total budget is€4 million, with the OU share being£222,745.</p><ul><li>i<a href="http://oro.open.ac.uk/39136/" target="_blank"><u>nformation extraction</u></a> from the legacy biodiversity literature</li><li>how to find agriculturally relevant educational material automatically (Semantic Web, SPARQL queries</li></ul><p>eg typing"select distinct ?t where {<br />?olu a<<a href="http://data.open.ac.uk/openlearn/ontology/OpenLearnUnit">http://data.open.ac.uk/openlearn/ontology/OpenLearnUnit</a>>. <br />?olu<<a href="http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject" rel="nofollow">http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject</a>> ?t<br />}" <a href="http://data.open.ac.uk/query" target="_blank"><u>here</u></a> will give you a list of topics covered by OpenLearn - the OU's free learning material - selecting any of these topics will then list the OpenLearn webpages</p><p><strong>Convolutional Neural Networks</strong> (at Bell Labs, NJ)<br />Initially for modelling the visual system, but I never got very far on this, instead becoming engrossed in projects that applied variants of the famous <a href="http://yann.lecun.com/exdb/lenet/index.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><u>LeNet </u></a>architecture created by <a href="http://yann.lecun.com/ex/research/index.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><u>Yann LeCun</u></a> to a broad variety of problems in image recognition and signal processing</p><ul><li>handwritten and machine printed address readers (for the US post office)</li><li>faxed form reader (for AT&T business forms)</li><li>use of a special purpose chip (called ANNA) that implemented a handwriting recogniser in silicon (with Bernard Boser and Eduard Sackinger)</li><li>automatic teller machine that can read checks and bills deposited by bank customers</li><li>signature verification with a time delay neural network</li></ul><p>The last 2 were collaborative projects with NCR.</p><p>My unique contribution, apart from training software that ran like the Disney version of the Sorcerer's Apprentice and couldn't be stopped, was introducing training on“rubbish” to improve rejection performance.</p><p><a href="http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=x4u4ikoj1M8C&pg=PA810&lpg=PA810&dq=vision+research+at+imperial+college&source=bl&ots=_HiMkV3_Y_&sig=HZD4vSAosl9LcHuw4yz1cfDjudY&hl=en&sa=X&ei=YrrKUpuBEIqRhQfSj4HYDg&ved=0CG4Q6AEwCTgK#v=onepage&q&f=false" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><strong><u>Human Vision</u></strong></a> (at Imperial College and the Royal London Hospital with Keith Ruddock and Chris Kennard)<br />The application of psychophysics (the investigation of the relations between physical stimuli and sensation) to the understanding of the normal mechanisms of visual processing, but also to the study of visual abnormalities in order to offer practical assistance to clinical patients. This was experimental work using computer monitors, <a href="http://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/maxwellian+view" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><u>Maxwellian View Optical Systems</u></a> , essentially an optical bench with mirrors, lenses, filters and light sources (picture) and the wonderful W. D. Wright <a href="http://infocom.uniroma1.it/gscarano/texware/Wright.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><u>Trichromatic Colorimeter</u></a> built in the 1920s.</p><ul><li>the role of blue-sensitive cones on spatial processing</li><li>parallel and sequential visual processing (particularly in dyslexia and amblyopia)</li><li>visual perseveration</li><li>visual agnosia</li><li>hemianopia (in particular blindsight)</li><li>various central visual defects</li></ul><p><img alt="Maxwellian View Optical System" src="http://users.mct.open.ac.uk/jmb995/Maxwellian view.jpg" style="height:448px; width:300px" /></p>
<p>My CV is <u><a href="/people/sites/www.open.ac.uk.people/files/files/JMB_OU_cv_June2016.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">here</a>.</u> <br /><br />I grew up and went to school in <a href="http://www.whs.bucks.sch.uk/" rel="nofollow"><u>High Wycombe</u></a>, a leafy, furniture making town in the <a href="http://www.chilternsaonb.org/" rel="nofollow"><u>Chilterns</u></a>. This was followed by a BSc in <strong>Physics</strong> and PhD in <strong>Biophysics</strong> (1987) at <a href="http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/physics" rel="nofollow"><u>Imperial College</u></a> (IC). I then held a joint postdoc funded by the<a href="http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/" rel="nofollow"><u> </u><u>Wellcome Trust</u></a> between IC and the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_London_Hospital" rel="nofollow"><u>Royal London Hospital</u></a> during which I constructed a visual psychophysics lab in a small room off the Neurology Ward and also occasionally visited the <a href="http://www.medicalmuseums.org/Royal-London-Hospital-Museum-and-Archives/" rel="nofollow"><u>museum</u></a> to see the skeleton of the"Elephant Man". <br /><br />My research at this time was on <strong>Visual Dysfunction </strong>and my most interesting subject was a person with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_agnosia" rel="nofollow"><u>Visual Agnosia</u></a> who you can see in this YouTube <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNt9hEmHe00" rel="nofollow"><u>video</u></a>. As a result of this study I became interested in modelling visual dysfunction and with a travel grant from the Royal Society I went to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_Labs" rel="nofollow"><u>Bell Labs</u></a> (1990) to learn about artificial <strong>Neural Networks</strong>. Here I became involved in the work of the Adaptive Systems Research Department on recognizing characters - handwritten or machine printed, on paper or a tablet. Initially this was applied to automating mail sorting for the US post office, but later the technology was (and is) used by banks around the world. This was one of the first <a href="http://yann.lecun.com/ex/research/index.html" rel="nofollow"><u>demonstrations </u></a>that neural networks could be applied to"real-world" applications. I also developed some expertise in signature verification using <a href="http://leon.bottou.org/research/convnets" rel="nofollow"><u>Time Delay Neural Networks</u></a>. When AT&T broke up (for the 2nd time) I then worked in Project Management (I always gravitated to organising things) on a variety of telecoms projects. <br /><br />When my son started school I returned to the UK and taught in schools for a few years, but I restarted my research career by joining the Open University as a Visiting Research Fellow in 2005. Initially I worked on <strong>Robotics Activities</strong> for children, editing the English Language version of <a href="http://www.iais.fraunhofer.de/roberta-eu.html?&L=1" rel="nofollow"><u>Roberta</u></a> learning material, running Robotics Clubs and entering competitions - one team even won the UK <a href="http://rcjuk.weebly.com/2013-national-finals.html" rel="nofollow"><u>RoboCup Junior</u></a> and competed in the world finals in Suzhou, China (2008). More recently I have worked as a researcher on EU funded projects. Firstly with the <a href="http://cordis.europa.eu/project/rcn/89800_en.html" rel="nofollow"><u>ASSYST</u></a>, a Coordination Action for <strong>Complex Systems</strong>, and now on <a href="http://aginfra.eu/" rel="nofollow"><u>agINFRA</u></a>. <br /><br />As a result of my involvement in a number of <strong>EU projects</strong> I'm now a dab hand at the financial tracking and reporting required to run a successful EU project. I continue to organise things such as the group coffee club and the Complexity and Design group - here's a picture of my door plate which appeared one morning... </p><p> </p><p><img alt="Picture of office door" src="/people/sites/www.open.ac.uk.people/files/images/AirMarshallComplexity.JPG" style="height:200px; width:300px" /></p><p> </p>
Dr Jane Bromley
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<p>My CV is <u><a href="/people/sites/www.open.ac.uk.people/files/files/JMB_OU_cv_June2016.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">here</a>.</u> <br /><br />I grew up and went to school in <a href="http://www.whs.bucks.sch.uk/" rel="nofollow"><u>High Wycombe</u></a>, a leafy, furniture making town in the <a href="http://www.chilternsaonb.org/" rel="nofollow"><u>Chilterns</u></a>. This was followed by a BSc in <strong>Physics</strong> and PhD in <strong>Biophysics</strong> (1987) at <a href="http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/physics" rel="nofollow"><u>Imperial College</u></a> (IC). I then held a joint postdoc funded by the<a href="http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/" rel="nofollow"><u> </u><u>Wellcome Trust</u></a> between IC and the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_London_Hospital" rel="nofollow"><u>Royal London Hospital</u></a> during which I constructed a visual psychophysics lab in a small room off the Neurology Ward and also occasionally visited the <a href="http://www.medicalmuseums.org/Royal-London-Hospital-Museum-and-Archives/" rel="nofollow"><u>museum</u></a> to see the skeleton of the"Elephant Man". <br /><br />My research at this time was on <strong>Visual Dysfunction </strong>and my most interesting subject was a person with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_agnosia" rel="nofollow"><u>Visual Agnosia</u></a> who you can see in this YouTube <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNt9hEmHe00" rel="nofollow"><u>video</u></a>. As a result of this study I became interested in modelling visual dysfunction and with a travel grant from the Royal Society I went to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_Labs" rel="nofollow"><u>Bell Labs</u></a> (1990) to learn about artificial <strong>Neural Networks</strong>. Here I became involved in the work of the Adaptive Systems Research Department on recognizing characters - handwritten or machine printed, on paper or a tablet. Initially this was applied to automating mail sorting for the US post office, but later the technology was (and is) used by banks around the world. This was one of the first <a href="http://yann.lecun.com/ex/research/index.html" rel="nofollow"><u>demonstrations </u></a>that neural networks could be applied to"real-world" applications. I also developed some expertise in signature verification using <a href="http://leon.bottou.org/research/convnets" rel="nofollow"><u>Time Delay Neural Networks</u></a>. When AT&T broke up (for the 2nd time) I then worked in Project Management (I always gravitated to organising things) on a variety of telecoms projects. <br /><br />When my son started school I returned to the UK and taught in schools for a few years, but I restarted my research career by joining the Open University as a Visiting Research Fellow in 2005. Initially I worked on <strong>Robotics Activities</strong> for children, editing the English Language version of <a href="http://www.iais.fraunhofer.de/roberta-eu.html?&L=1" rel="nofollow"><u>Roberta</u></a> learning material, running Robotics Clubs and entering competitions - one team even won the UK <a href="http://rcjuk.weebly.com/2013-national-finals.html" rel="nofollow"><u>RoboCup Junior</u></a> and competed in the world finals in Suzhou, China (2008). More recently I have worked as a researcher on EU funded projects. Firstly with the <a href="http://cordis.europa.eu/project/rcn/89800_en.html" rel="nofollow"><u>ASSYST</u></a>, a Coordination Action for <strong>Complex Systems</strong>, and now on <a href="http://aginfra.eu/" rel="nofollow"><u>agINFRA</u></a>. <br /><br />As a result of my involvement in a number of <strong>EU projects</strong> I'm now a dab hand at the financial tracking and reporting required to run a successful EU project. I continue to organise things such as the group coffee club and the Complexity and Design group - here's a picture of my door plate which appeared one morning... </p><p> </p><p><img alt="Picture of office door" src="/people/sites/www.open.ac.uk.people/files/images/AirMarshallComplexity.JPG" style="height:200px; width:300px" /></p><p> </p>