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Joshua Mullett

Postgraduate Research Student
School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)
 Joshua Mullett

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  • Computational Modeling
  • Bio-printing
  • Synthetic Intelligence

Biography

Joshua Mullett is a PhD student, having started in 2024, specialising in computational models, bioprinting technology, and biological synthetic intelligence. His research integrates AI with biological systems, focusing on developing programmable cellular agents and hybrid biological-digital networks to advance the field of biological information processing.

Qualifications

  • BEng - Computer Networks University of Essex (2024)

Research and professional activities

Thesis

Engineering Living Biological Systems Towards Artifical Embodied Intelligence

The project aims to explore the advancement of computational models and bioprinting technology in the creation of biologically based synthetic intelligence. We will investigate how cells can function as programmable biological information processing units, analysing their potential to serve as controllable agents in synthetic systems.

Supervisor: Dr. Michael Barros , Prof. Reinhold Scherer , Dr. Andrea Mohr

Research interests

Bioprinting for Synthetic Intelligence

Investigating the use of bioprinting technologies to create programmable biological structures that can act as computational units for synthetic intelligence systems.

Cellular Information Processing

Exploring how biological cells can be engineered to function as dynamic, reconfigurable units capable of performing complex information processing tasks, bridging the gap between biological and digital computation.

Contact

jm20045@essex.ac.uk

Location:

Colchester Campus