Tony Prescott
Professor Of Cognitive Robotics at Convergent Science Network
Sheffield, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolTony Prescott is a professor of cognitive robotics with over three decades of academic experience and a decade of focused industry-facing work, blending biomimetic robotics, brain-inspired cognitive architectures, and active touch sensing. He has co-founded multiple UK robotics ventures (Consequential Robotics, Cyberselves Universal, BOW) to translate lab research into societal solutions for education and healthcare, and has attracted over £9M in funding while publishing 200+ papers. His work bridges neuroscience, psychology, and engineering—recently co-editing the Oxford Handbook of Living Machines—and has informed public discourse through features in Science, New Scientist and broadcast interviews. Tony’s group maintains a public GitHub of computational models from the Adaptive Behaviour Research Group, reflecting a commitment to open, reproducible research that underpins both academic advances and commercial products.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
MSc, Applied Artificial Intelligence, MSc, Applied Artificial Intelligence at University of AberdeenMA, Psychology, MA, Psychology at The University of EdinburghPhD, Machine Learning, PhD, Machine Learning at The University of Sheffield
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Github Skills (15)
simulation10
graphics-engine10
visualization10
opengl10
2d10
matplotlib10
3d9
data-visualization9
json9
axon6
jekyll5
github-pages2
cortex1
crossword1
modeling-tool1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
ABRG-Models/BarrelEmerge
Jun 2019 - Sep 2020
Emergence of whisker barrels with modified Karbowski-Ermentrout-like axon branching population model
Contributions:7 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
axonmodifiedwhiskerpopulation-modelemergence
ABRG-Models/MiRo
Mar 2019 - Jun 2019
Collaborative MiRo-E development
Contributions:3 commits, 1 push in 3 months
collaborativemiro
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