Michael Stirrat

Personal Information

  • Nationality: British
  • Date of Birth: 19th January 1972

Education

2006-present

University of St Andrews

St Andrews

PhD (Psychology)

  • Facial cues to trust and trustworthiness.

2001-2002

University of Sussex

Brighton

(Diploma) Adaptive and Evolutionary Systems

  • Courses include: Programming Techniques (C/C++), Formal Computational Skills, Neural Networks, Artificial Life, Animal and Machine Intelligence, Philosophy of Cognitive Science, Adaptive Systems, and Simulation of Adaptive Behaviour.

1997 – 2001

University of Edinburgh

Edinburgh

MA Linguistics and Artificial Intelligence (1st Class Hons.)

  • Courses include: AI Programming in JAVA, Knowledge Representation and Inference, Cognitive Modelling, Artificial Intelligence Research Methodologies, Learning from Data, Computational Modelling of Linguistic Processes, Techniques in Natural Language Processing (1 & 2), Origins & Evolution of Language, Syntactic Theory, Semantics: Inference & Information, Phonological Theory, Advanced Phonology: Optimality Theory, Advanced Phonology: Prosody.
  • My final year dissertation explored the computational modelling and theory of the evolution of Language and languages.

Employment

2002-2006

University of St Andrews

St Andrews

Research Associate

  • Modelling of facial attributions: age, health and others.
  • Programming for exhibition software.

1997-2001

University of Edinburgh Computing Services

Edinburgh

Computer Lab Supervisor (part-time)

1990-1997

Reed Insulation

Cupar, Fife

Office Manager/Quantity Surveyor (Trainee).

Languages

  • Java, Matlab, Prolog, Flex. Some experience with C/C++ and web programming e.g. perl, PHP, XHTML, Javascript. (and conversational Spanish).