Dr Stuart Wilson

School of Computer Science

Senior Lecturer in Computational Neuroscience

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s.p.wilson@Sheffield.ac.uk

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Dr Stuart Wilson
School of Computer Science
Regent Court (DCS)
211 Portobello
Sheffield
S1 4DP
Profile

Stuart studied Psychology & Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Sheffield (2006) and Bioinformatics & Neuroinformatics at the University of Edinburgh (2007) before completing a PhD in Theoretical Neuroscience at the University of Sheffield (2011). He was appointed as a Lecturer in the Department of Psychology at the University of Sheffield in 2012, and as a Senior Lecturer in 2020. Stuart joined the Department of Computer Science in 2023.

Research interests

Stuart is interested in how self-organisation and natural selection interact to shape complex systems, including brains. He explores this interaction through computational neuroscience modelling, and by connecting artificial neural networks to the physical world through robotics.

Publications

Journal articles

  • Prescott TJ & Wilson SP (2023) . Science Robotics, 8(78).
  • James SS, Englund M, Bottom R, Perez R, Conner KE, Huffman KJ, Wilson SP & Krubitzer LA (2022) . Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119(41).
  • Brooke JM, James SS, Jimenez-Rodriguez A & Wilson SP (2022) . PLoS Computational Biology, 18(3).
  • Wilson SP & Prescott TJ (2022) . Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 377(1844).
  • Englund M, James SS, Bottom R, Huffman KJ, Wilson SP & Krubitzer LA (2021) .
  • James SS, Krubitzer LA & Wilson SP (2020) . eLife, 2020(9).
  • Wilson SP, James SS, Whiteley DJ & Krubitzer LA (2019) . Scientific Reports, 9(1).
  • Wilson SP & Wilson PN (2018) . PLoS One, 13(12).
  • Wilson S (2017) . Royal Society Open Science, 4, 170885-170885.
  • Spigler G & Wilson SP (2017) . PLoS ONE, 12(6).
  • Glancy J, Stone JV & Wilson SP (2016) . Royal Society Open Science, 3.
  • Bednar JA & Wilson SP (2015) . Neuroscientist.
  • Glancy JP, Gross R, Stone JV & Wilson SP (2015) . PLOS Computational Biology, 11(9).
  • Wilson SP & Bednar JA (2015) . Developmental Neurobiology, 75(6), 667-681.
  • Wilson SP, Bednar JA, Prescott TJ & Mitchinson B (2011) . PLoS Comput Biol, 7(10), e1002188.
  • Wilson SP, Law JS, Mitchinson B, Prescott TJ & Bednar JA (2010) . PLoS One, 5(1), e8778.
  • Wilson S, Mitchinson B, Pearson M, Bednar J & Prescott T (2009) . BMC Neuroscience, 10(Suppl ), P334.
  • Alexander T, Wilson SP & Wilson PN (2009) . Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition, 35(3), 694-708.
  • Stafford T & Wilson SP (2007) . NEUROCOMPUTING, 70(10-12), 1932-1937.
  • Wilson SP () . PLoS Computational Biology, 13(1).

Book chapters

  • Wilson SP (2018) Oxford University Press
  • Wilson SP & Moore C (2016) , Scholarpedia of Touch (pp. 565-576). Atlantis Press
  • Prescott AJ, Mitchinson B, Lepora NF, Wilson SP, Anderson SR, Porrill J, Dean P, Fox CW, Pearson MJ, Sullivan JC & Pipe AG (2015) The robot vibrissal system: Understanding mammalian sensorimotor co-ordination through biomimetics In Krieger P & Groh A (Ed.), Sensorimotor Integration in the Whisker System (pp. 213-240). New York: Springer.
  • Wilson SP, Verschure PFMJ, Mura A & Prescott A (2015) In Wilson S, Verschure P, Mura A & Prescott A (Ed.), 4th International Conference, Living Machines 2015, Barcelona, Spain, July 28 - 31, 2015, Proceedings (pp. v-vi). Springer International Publishing

Conference proceedings

  • Jimenez-Rodriguez A, Prescott TJ, Schmidt R & Wilson S (2020) . Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems : 9th International Conference, Living Machines 2020, Freiburg, Germany, July 28–30, 2020, Proceedings(12413) (pp 192-203). Freiburg, Germany, 28 July 2020 - 28 July 2020.
  • Wilson S (2017) . Living Machines 2017: Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems (pp 487-496). Stanford, CA, USA, 26 July 2017 - 26 July 2017.
  • (2015)
  • Urashima H & Wilson SP (2014) (pp 439-441)
  • Wilson SP & Prescott TJ (2013) . Lecture Notes in Computer Science Including Subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics, Vol. 8064 LNAI (pp 454-456)
  • Glancy J, Groß R & Wilson SP (2013) . Lecture Notes in Computer Science Including Subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics, Vol. 8064 LNAI (pp 381-383)
  • Wilson SP (2013) . Lecture Notes in Computer Science Including Subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics, Vol. 8064 LNAI (pp 450-453)

Preprints

  • James SS & Wilson SP (2021) , Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.
  • Brooke JM, James SS, Jimenez-Rodriguez A & Wilson SP (2021) , Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.
Research group

Complex Systems Modelling research group

Affiliated member of the Machine Learning research group