Dr Sean Anderson

School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Senior Lecturer

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s.anderson@sheffield.ac.uk
+44 114 222 5608
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Dr Sean Anderson
School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Amy Johnson Building
Portobello Street
Sheffield
S1 3JD
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Dr Sean Anderson is a senior lecturer in the Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering, University of Sheffield; He received the MEng degree in Control Systems Engineering from the Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, U.K., in 2001, and the PhD degree from the Department of Chemical and Process Engineering, University of Sheffield, in 2005.

He then moved to the Centre for Signal Processing in Neuroimaging and Systems Neuroscience at the Department of Psychology, University of Sheffield, where he worked as a Research Associate from 2005-2010. He moved to the Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering in 2010 where he is currently pursuing research themes in bioinspired robotics as well as adaptive and optimal control in biological systems.

Research interests
  • Linear, Nonliner and Spatiotemporal System Identification
  • Robotics and Biomechatronics
  • Theoretical Neuroscience and Computational Biology

Research Experience

  • Research Associate in Complex Systems and Signal Processing Group, Dept of ACSE, Univ of Sheffield, 2010-2011.
  • EU FP7 project "Biomimetic Technology for Vibrissal Active Touch" (Biotact), 2009-2010.
  • EPSRC project "Functions of Distributed Plasticity in a Biologically-Inspired Adaptive Control Algorithm: From Electrophysiology to Robotics" (Eyerobot), 2005-2008.
Publications

Journal articles

  • Worley R & Anderson SR (2025) . Journal of Field Robotics, 42(3), 806-826.
  • Worley R, Yu Y, Horoshenkov KV & Anderson SR (2024) . IEEE Sensors Journal, 24(16), 26506-26521.
  • Bidar O, Anderson SR & Qin N (2024) . Physics of Fluids, 36, 015144.
  • Jacobs WR, Kadirkamanathan V & Anderson SR (2024) . IEEE Access, 12, 11052-11065.
  • Yu Y, Horoshenkov K, Worley R & Anderson S (2023) . The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 154(4_supplement), A68-A68.
  • Su J, Anderson S, Javed M, Khompatraporn C, Udomsakdigool A & Mihaylova L (2023) . Neurocomputing, 555.
  • Zhang R, Worley R, Edwards S, Aitken J, Anderson S & Mihaylova L (2023) . IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 8(6), 3406-3413.
  • Edwards S, Zhang R, Worley R, Mihaylova L, Aitken JM & Anderson SR (2023) . Frontiers of Robotics and AI, 10.
  • Yu Y, Worley R, Anderson S & Horoshenkov KV (2023) . The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 153(1), 367-383.
  • Vicente BAH, Trodden PA & Anderson SR (2022) . IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology.
  • Aitken J, Evans M, Worley R, Edwards S, Zhang R, Dodd T, Mihaylova L & Anderson S (2021) . IEEE Access, 9, 140173-140198.
  • Vicente BAH, James SS & Anderson SR (2021) . IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, 29(3), 1380-1387.
  • Zhu J, Boxall JB, Hills AF, Dwyer-Joyce RS, Anderson SR & Collins RP (2021) . Infrastructures, 6(2).
  • Wilson ED, Assaf T, Rossiter JM, Dean P, Porrill J, Anderson SR & Pearson MJ (2021) . Journal of The Royal Society Interface, 18(174).
  • Worley R, Ma K, Sailor G, Schirru MM, Dwyer-Joyce R, Boxall JB, Dodd TJ, Collins R & Anderson SR (2020) . Sensors, 20(19).
  • James SS, Anderson SR & Lio MD (2020) . IEEE Access, 8, 73714-73729.
  • Anderson SR, Porrill J & Dean P (2020) . Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience, 14(1).
  • Wilson ED, Anderson S, Dean P & Porrill J (2019) . PLoS Computational Biology, 15(7).
  • Jacobs WR, Dodd T & Anderson SR (2019) . IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 64(5), 1905-1915.
  • Jacobs WR, Baldacchino T, Dodd TJ & Anderson SR (2018) . IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 63(12), 4172-4187.
  • Baldacchino T, Jacobs WR, Anderson SR, Worden K & Rowson J (2018) . Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology.
  • James S, Papapavlou C, Blenkinsop A, Cope AJ, Anderson SJ, Moustakas K & Gurney K (2018) . Frontiers in Neuroscience, 12, 1-33.
  • Blenkinsop A, Anderson S & Gurney K (2017) . Journal of Physiology, 595(13), 4525-4548.
  • James S, Bell OA, Nazli MAM, Pearce RE, Spencer J, Tyrrell K, Paine PJ, Heaton TJ, Anderson S, Da Lio M & Gurney K (2017) . PLoS One, 12(5).
  • Wilson ED, Assaf T, Pearson MJ, Rossiter JM, Anderson SR, Porrill J & Dean P (2016) . Interface, 13(122).
  • Aram P, Kadirkamanathan V & Anderson SR (2015) . IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, 26(11), 2978-2983.
  • Wilson ED, Assaf T, Pearson MJ, Rossiter JM, Dean P, Anderson SR & Porrill J (2015) . Frontiers in Neurorobotics, 9.
  • Stahl JS, Thumser ZC, May PJ, Andrade FH, Anderson SR & Dean P (2015) . Journal of Neurophysiology, 114(3), 1455-1467.
  • Jacobs WR, Wilson ED, Assaf T, Rossiter J, Dodd TJ, Porrill J & Anderson SR (2015) . Smart Materials and Structures, 24(5).
  • Robertson AL, Holmes GR, Bojarczuk AN, Burgon J, Loynes CA, Chimen M, Sawtell AK, Hamza B, Willson J, Walmsley SR , Anderson SR et al (2014) . Sci Transl Med, 6(225), 225ra29.
  • Dean P, Porrill J, Anderson S & J繹rntell H (2013) . Journal of Physiology, 591(22), 5459-5474.
  • Baldacchino T, Anderson SR & Kadirkamanathan V (2013) . Automatica, 49(9), 2641-2651.
  • Porrill J, Dean P & Anderson SR (2013) . Neural Networks, 47, 134-149.
  • Anderson SR, Porrill J, Pearson MJ, Pipe AG, Prescott TJ & Dean P (2012) . PLoS One, 7(9), e44560-e44560.
  • Holmes GR, Anderson SR, Dixon G, Robertson AL, Reyes-Aldasoro CC, Billings SA, Renshaw SA & Kadirkamanathan V (2012) . J R Soc Interface, 9(77), 3229-3239.
  • Holmes GR, Dixon G, Anderson SR, Reyes-Aldasoro CC, Elks PM, Billings SA, Whyte MKB, Kadirkamanathan V & Renshaw SA (2012) . Adv Hematol, 2012, 792163.
  • Baldacchino T, Anderson SR & Kadirkamanathan V (2012) Structure detection and parameter estimation for NARX models in a unified EM framework. Automatica.
  • Kadirkamanathan V, Anderson SR, Billings SA, Zhang X, Holmes GR, Reyes-Aldasoro CC, Elks PM & Renshaw SA (2012) . Plos One, 7(4).
  • Krishnanathan K, Anderson SR, Billings SA & Kadirkamanathan V (2012) . ACS SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY, 1(8), 375-384.
  • Anderson SR, Pearson MJ, Pipe A, Prescott T, Dean P & Porrill J (2010) . IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 26(6), 1065-1076.
  • Chadwick MA, Anderson SR & Kadirkamanathan V (2010) . INT J SYST SCI, 41(7), 839-851.
  • Anderson SR, Lepora NF, Porrill J & Dean P (2010) . IEEE T BIO-MED ENG, 57(7), 1554-1567.
  • Kadirkamanathan V, Halauca C & Anderson SR (2009) . INT J SYST SCI, 40(7), 745-756.
  • Lenz A, Anderson SR, Pipe AG, Melhuish C, Dean P & Porrill J (2009) . IEEE Trans Syst Man Cybern B Cybern, 39(6), 1420-1433.
  • Anderson SR, Porrill J, Sklavos S, Gandhi NJ, Sparks DL & Dean P (2009) . J Neurophysiol, 101(6), 2907-2923.
  • Kadirkamanathan V & Anderson SR (2008) . IEEE T SIGNAL PROCES, 56(8), 3765-3770.
  • Anderson SR, Dean P, Kadirkamanathan V, Kaneko CRS & Porrill J (2007) . IEEE Trans Biomed Eng, 54(12), 2205-2213.
  • Anderson SR & Kadirkamanathan V (2007) . AUTOMATICA, 43(11), 1859-1868.
  • Anderson SR, Kadirkamanathan V, Chipperfield A, Sharifi V & Swithenbank J (2005) . COMPUT CHEM ENG, 29(5), 1121-1130.
  • Georgiou C, Anderson S & Todd T () . The International Journal of Robotics Research.

Book chapters

  • Bidar O, Anderson SR & Qin N (2025) , Proceedings of the Cambridge Unsteady Flow Symposium 2024 (pp. 121-133). Springer Nature Switzerland
  • Jacobs W & Anderson SR (2024) , Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing (pp. 361-366). Springer Nature Switzerland
  • 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.

Conference proceedings

  • George A, Shepherd W, Tait S, Mihaylova L & Anderson S (2025) . Proceedings of 21st Computing & Control for the Water Industry Conference (CCWI 2025). Sheffield, UK, 1 September 2025 - 1 September 2025.
  • Karnezis A, Worley R, Blight A, Anderson S, Horoshenkov K & Mihaylova L (2025) . Proceedings of the The 21st International Computing & Control in the Water Industry Conference,, CCWI 2025. Sheffield, UK, 1 September 2025 - 1 September 2025.
  • Goswami S, Phelan J, Anderson S & Arvaneh M (2024) . 2024 IEEE International Conference on Metrology for eXtended Reality, Artificial Intelligence and Neural Engineering (MetroXRAINE) (pp 423-428), 21 October 2024 - 23 October 2024.
  • Bidar O, He P, Anderson S & Qin N (2024) . AIAA SCITECH 2024 Forum. Orlando, FL, USA, 8 January 2024 - 8 January 2024.
  • Bidar O, Anderson S & Qin N (2024) . AIAA SCITECH 2024 Forum. Orlando, FL, USA, 8 January 2024 - 8 January 2024.
  • Su J, Anderson S & Mihaylova L (2023) . 2023 26th International Conference on Information Fusion Proceedings. Charleston, SC, USA, 27 June 2023 - 27 June 2023.
  • Su J, Anderson S & Mihaylova L (2022) . 2022 Sensor Data Fusion: Trends, Solutions, Applications (SDF) Proceedings. Bonn, Germany, 12 October 2022 - 12 October 2022.
  • Bidar O, He P, Anderson S & Qin N (2022) . AIAA AVIATION 2022 Forum(2022). Chicago, IL, USA (and online), 27 June 2022 - 27 June 2022.
  • Bidar O, He P, Anderson S & Qin N (2022) . AIAA AVIATION 2022 Forum. Chicago, IL, USA (and online), 27 June 2022 - 27 June 2022.
  • Evans MH, Aitken JM & Anderson SR (2022) . 2021 20th International Conference on Advanced Robotics (ICAR) (pp 1073-1078). Virtual conference, 6 December 2021 - 6 December 2021.
  • Jaramillo-Avila U, Aitken JM, Gurney K & Anderson SR (2021) . 2021 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) (pp 8444-8449). Prague, Czech Republic, 27 September 2021 - 27 September 2021.
  • Zhang R, Evans MH, Worley R, Anderson SR & Mihaylova L (2021) . TAROS 2021: Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems, Vol. 13054 (pp 56-65). Lincoln, UK (virtual conference), 8 September 2021 - 8 September 2021.
  • Edwards S, Mihaylova L, Aitken J & Anderson S (2021) . Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems; 22nd Annual Conference, TAROS 2021, Lincoln, UK, September 810, 2021, Proceedings(13054) (pp 188-192). Lincoln, UK (virtual conference), 8 September 2021 - 8 September 2021.
  • Worley R & Anderson S (2021) . Proceedings of 2021 European Conference on Mobile Robots (ECMR). Bonn, Germany, 31 August 2021 - 31 August 2021.
  • Worley R & Anderson S (2021) . 2021 IEEE International Conference on Multisensor Fusion and Integration for Intelligent Systems (MFI) (pp 1-8), 23 September 2021 - 25 September 2021.
  • Worley R & Anderson S (2020) . Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems 21st Annual Conference, TAROS 2020, Nottingham, UK, September 16, 2020, Proceedings, Vol. 12228 (pp 77-89). Nottingham, UK, 16 September 2020 - 16 September 2020.
  • Worley R, Yu Y & Anderson S (2020) . 2020 IEEE International Conference on Multisensor Fusion and Integration for Intelligent Systems (MFI), Vol. 2020 (pp 160-165). Karlsruhe, Germany, 14 September 2020 - 14 September 2020.
  • Worley R & Anderson S (2020) . UKRAS20 Conference: Robots into the real world Proceedings (pp 59-60). Online conference, 17 April 2020 - 17 April 2020.
  • Jaramillo-Avila U, Aitken JM & Anderson SR (2020) . Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Advanced Robotics (ICAR) (pp 773-778). Belo Horizonte, Brazil, 2 December 2019 - 2 December 2019.
  • Jaramillo-Avila U & Anderson SR (2019) . Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems (pp 193-204), 9 July 2019 - 12 July 2019.
  • James S & Anderson SR (2018) . Proceedings of 2018 UKACC 12th International Conference on Control (CONTROL) (pp 146-151). Sheffield, UK, 5 September 2018 - 5 September 2018.
  • Anupam A, Wilton DJ, Anderson SR & Kadirkamanathan V (2018) . 2018 UKACC 12th International Conference on Control (CONTROL) (pp 242-247), 5 September 2018 - 7 September 2018.
  • Hartwell A, Kadirkamanathan V & Anderson SR (2018) . 2018 7th IEEE International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics (Biorob)
  • Jaramillo-Avila U, Hartwell A, Gurney K & Anderson S (2018) . Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems, Vol. 10965 (pp 489-490). Bristol, UK, 25 July 2018 - 25 July 2018.
  • Hartwell A, Kadirkamanathan V & Anderson SR (2018) Compact Deep Neural Networks for Computationally Efficient Gesture Classification From Electromyography Signals. 2018 7TH IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON BIOMEDICAL ROBOTICS AND BIOMECHATRONICS (BIOROB2018) (pp 891-896)
  • Ma K, Schirru M, Zahraee AH, Dwyer-Joyce R, Boxall J, Dodd TJ, Collins R & Anderson SR (2017) . 2017 IEEE International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics (AIM). Munich, Germany
  • Kouppas C, Pearson M, Dean P & Anderson S (2017) (pp 230-241)
  • Da Lio M, Mazzalai A, Windridge D, Thill S, Svensson H, Yuksel M, Gurney K, Saroldi A, Andreone L, Anderson SR & Heich H-J (2017) . 2017 IEEE 20th International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC) (pp 1-6), 16 October 2017 - 19 October 2017.
  • Ma K, Schirru MM, Zahraee AH, Dwyer-Joyce R, Boxall J, Dodd TJ, Collins R & Anderson SR (2017) . 2017 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) (pp 2548-2553). Singapore
  • Hartwell A, Kadirkamanathan V & Anderson S (2016) . 2016 IEEE 38th Annual International Conference of the Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC) (pp 880-883), 16 August 2016 - 20 August 2016.
  • Ke M, Hassan-Zahraee A, Zhu J, Mills R, Boxall J, Dwyer-Joyce R, Dodd T, Collins R & Anderson SR (2016) Robotic Mapping and Localisation in Feature Sparse Water Pipes. 19th World Conference on Non-Destructive Testing. Munich
  • Assaf T, Wilson ED, Anderson S, Dean P, Porrill J & Pearson MJ (2016) . Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Vol. 2016 (pp 967-972). Stockholm, Sweden
  • Jacobs WR, Baldacchino T & Anderson SR (2015) . IFAC-PapersOnLine, Vol. 48(28) (pp 172-177). Beijing, China, 19 October 2015 - 19 October 2015.
  • Ma K, Zhu J, Dodd TJ, Collins R & Anderson SR (2015) . Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems, Vol. 9287 (pp 161-166). Liverpool, UK
  • Holmes G, Hale M, McAlindon ME & Anderson S (2015) . Gut, Vol. 64(Suppl 1) (pp A490.1-A490)
  • Georgiou C, Anderson S & Dodd T (2015) . 2015 6th International Conference on Automation, Robotics and Applications (ICARA) (pp 50-56), 17 February 2015 - 19 February 2015.
  • Baldacchino T, Jacobs W, Anderson SR, Worden K & Rowson J (2015) . Proceedings of the International Conference on Bio-inspired Systems and Signal Processing (pp 270-276), 12 January 2015 - 15 January 2015.
  • Wilson ED, Assaf T, Pearson MJ, Rossiter JM, Dean P, Anderson SR & Porrill J (2014) . The University of Sheffield Engineering Symposium Conference Proceedings Vol. 1, Vol. 1. The Octagon Centre, University of Sheffield
  • Jacobs W, Wilson ED, Assaf T, Rossiter JM, Dodd TJ, Porrill J & Anderson SR (2014) (pp 259-260)
  • Wilson ED, Anderson SR, Assaf T, Rossiter JM, Pearson MJ & Porrill J (2014) (pp 53-63)
  • Anderson SR, Aram P, Bhattacharya B & Kadirkamanathan V (2014) . IFAC Proceedings Volumes IFAC Papersonline, Vol. 3(PART 1) (pp 949-954)
  • Holmes GR, Anderson SR, Dixon G, Renshaw SA & Kadirkamanathan V (2013) . Annu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc, Vol. 2013 (pp 3455-3458). United States
  • Holmes GR, Anderson SR, Dixon G, Renshaw SA & Kadirkamanathan V (2013) A Bayesian framework for identifying cell migration dynamics. 2013 35TH ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE IEEE ENGINEERING IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY SOCIETY (EMBC) (pp 3459-3462)
  • Wilson ED, Assaf T, Pearson MJ, Rossiter JM, Anderson SR & Porrill J (2013) . Lecture Notes in Computer Science Including Subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics, Vol. 8064 LNAI (pp 311-322)
  • Wilson E, Anderson SR, Assaf T, Pearson MJ, Walters P, Prescott TJ, Melhuish C, Rossiter J, Pipe T, Dean P & Porrill J (2012) . Lecture Notes in Computer Science Including Subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics, Vol. 7429 LNAI (pp 424-425)
  • Zammit Mangion A, Anderson SR & Kadirkamanathan V (2011) . IFAC Proceedings Volumes IFAC Papersonline, Vol. 44(1 PART 1) (pp 4489-4494)
  • Porrill J, Anderson S & Dean P (2010) . BMC Neuroscience, Vol. 11(S1)
  • Anderson S, Binns LA, Collins PRC, Cooke A, Greenway P & Valachis D (2002) . SPIE Proceedings, Vol. 4741 (pp 202-210)
  • Binns LA, Valachis D, Anderson S, Gough DW, Nicholson D & Greenway P (2002) . SPIE Proceedings, Vol. 4729 (pp 62-68)
  • Binns LA, Valachis D, Anderson S, Gough DW, Nicholson D & Greenway P (2002) . SPIE Proceedings, Vol. 4729 (pp 56-61)
  • Abraham C, Anderson SR, Madan S & Dogramadzi S () . HSMR 2025

Preprints

  • Worley R, Yu Y, Horoshenkov K & Anderson S (2023) , Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
  • Hartwell A, Kadirkamanathan V & Anderson SR (2018) , arXiv.
  • James S, Bell OA, Nazli MAM, Pearce RE, Spencer J, Tyrrell K, Paine PJ, Heaton TJ, Anderson S, Da Lio M & Gurney K (2017) , arXiv.
Grants

Major Grants

  • EU H2020, Dreams4Cars - Dreamlike Simulation Abilities for Automated Cars (Sheffield PI), Jan 2017-Dec 2019, EUR 4 million.
  • EU FP7, NoTremor - Virtual, Physiological and Computational Neuromuscular Models for the Predictive Treatment of Parkinsons Disease (CI), Jan 2014-Dec 2016, EUR 2.9 million.
  • EPSRC, Assessing the Underworld - An integrated performance model of city infrastructures (EP/K021699/1) (CI), Jun 2013-May 2017, 瞿5,782,838.
  • EPSRC, Bioinspired Control of Electro-Active Polymers for Next Generation Soft Robots (EP/I032533/1) (CI), Jan 2012-Jul 2015, 瞿1,081,051. 

Pilot Funding, Feasibility Studies and Equipment Grants

  • Royal Society Equipment Grant, Oct 2013-Sep 2014, 瞿15,000.
  • Insigneo Bursary for Clinical Translation, funded by Sheffield Hospitals Charity Trust. Gastric Surface Mapping for Future Automated Approaches to Wireless Capsule Endoscopy of the Upper Gastrointestinal (GI) Tract, Dec 2013-Apr 2014, 瞿15,500.
  • Engineering for Life award, funded by the University of Sheffield. Towards a smart vest for sensing and actuation of wireless capsule endoscopes (PI), Oct 2012-Mar 2013, 瞿31,741.
  • Peninne Water Group, University of Sheffield. Developing ultrasound sensing technology to assess infrastructure and soil conditions external to buried pipes, Sep 2012-Jan 2013, 瞿15,000.
Teaching activities
  • ACS61011 Deep Learning

Links

Information and Communication Engineering Group