Dr. Simon Miles
Department of Informatics
King's College London
Bush House
London
WC2B 4BG
UK
simon.miles@kcl.ac.uk
Note that as I am leaving King's, this address may cease to work from 1 January 2023.
Leaving King's College London
As of 1 September 2022, I have moved to a new position as Head of AI at Aerogility, a London-based agent-based modelling company. I have enjoyed my 15 years at King's College London, working with many great colleagues and students. If you would like to stay in touch, LinkedIn may be the best option.
CUSP London
I was the founding Director of the Centre for Urban Science and Progress London (CUSP London) at King's. This centre is a collaboration between King's, University of Warwick, and New York University, and conducts education and research in the area of urban informatics, using data-driven and novel computational techniques to study cities. The Centre is interdisciplinary, drawing on our strengths in computer science and artificial intelligence, geography and the social sciences, health and medicine, statistics, and more. It conducts both education, through the MSc in Urban Informatics, and research, in collaboration with city agencies and relevant non-governmental and industry organisations. Please see the CUSP London website for more on our activity.
Research
My own research interests relates to multi-agent systems, particularly agent-based simulation and modelling norms of behaviour, and data provenance. I have published over 150 papers in these areas. For full details and a wider selection, please see my CV or my publications in KCL's publication repository.
I was an invited expert to the W3C working group on provenance, which produced a standard specifying how to represent provenance data for exchange online, PROV, including many supporting documents explaining how the provenance data may be accessed and queried, translated to other representations, extended, and so on. The specifications were published as an official W3C recommendation in April 2013. An overview of the specifications can be seen here. In particular, I was co-editor of a primer on the recommended model for provenance data. This is an accessible starting point for anyone wishing to learn about PROV.
Projects
I led or was an investigator on projects including the following.
- MOTIVATE: Modelling Normative Change in Active Travel, Principal investigator at KCL
- Justified Assessments of Service Provider Reputation (JASPR), Principal investigator at KCL and overall project coordinator
- Engineering Emergence in Large-Scale Simulations (EELS), Principal investigator at KCL and overall project coordinator
- Electronic Health Records for Clinical Research (EHR4CR), Lead investigator for Informatics at KCL
- Dynamic nutrItion bEhaviour awareness sysTem FOR the Elders (DIET4Elders), Principal Investigator at KCL
Please see my CV for older projects.
PhD Students
I am currently first supervisor of the following students (areas of expertise in italics).
- Niall Creech: Agent-based self-organisation for micro-service systems
- Javin Singh: Group-adaptive educational games
- Tomas Vitek: Learning agent behaviour models
I am not taking on further PhD students at the moment.
