Teaching

Current Taught Courses & Modules

I am Module Leader for the following modules:

SET08101: Web Tech
SET08114: Mobile Application Development
SET09103: Advanced Web Tech
SET09117: Algorithms & Data Structures

I also supervise honours, masters, and phd projects. I develop and lead modules for our external academic partners in the UK, Eire, & Myanmar. I also serve on the module boards at levels associated with my own modules and have been a standing member of our Athena Swan committee since 2015.

Past Taught Courses & Modules

I have previously served on the termination of studies committee and exam boards for the School of Computing at the University of Dundee. Whilst there, at various times I coordinated and taught the following undergraduate and postgraduate modules:

AC12003: The Argumentation & Computers Course
AC21003: Applied Computing AC2A
AC21005: Data Structures & Algorithms
AC21006: Advanced Foundations of Computing
AC22001: Applied Computing AC2B
AC42001: Research Frontiers Intelligent Agents Unit
AC52022: Multiagent Systems & Grid Computing
AC51022: Logical Inference & Symbolic Reasoning
AC52023: Application Case Studies & Research Methods

Project Supervision

I have also supervised both undergraduate and postgraduate projects on modules AC40001, AC52004, AC52030, and AC52031. The student project archive has more details of particular projects that have been completed.

Adam Mackie, Senior Honours Project, 09.2010 -- 01.2011, Building GARGle: A search engine for large-scale online argument repositories
James Boyden, Senior Honours Project, 09.2010 -- 01.2011, Exploring argument structures using the Microsoft Surface
Kathleen Donachie, Senior Honours Project, 09.2010 -- 01.2011, GrokTool: An argument construction tool to support student understanding of complex domains
Wojtek Wajerowicz, IAESTE student exchange program, 07--09, 2010, Argument MicroBlogging project funded by IAESTE Placement UK/10/317/01
Zenan Zheng, MSc Applied Computing Dissertation, 04--09.2010, Towards a GrokTool: Helping students to explore complex problem domains
Temitope Olowookere, MSc Applied Computing Dissertation, FireBack: A Firefox extension to support online argumentation
Christopher Brett, Senior Honours Project, 09.2009 -- 05.2010, Zandrok APC: An agent-based testing platform for large-scale multiplayer online games
Craig Gall, Senior Honours Project, 09.2009 -- 05.2010, Argument Blogging with the FireBack Firefox extension prototype
Sean Kearney, Senior Honours Project, 09.2009 -- 05.2010, A Web-based property portfolio management tool
Wenqi Li, 3+1+1 International Student Project, 09.2009 -- 05.2010, Parley: Distributed discussion software to support small group tutorials in complex problem domains
Yi Jin, 3+1+1 International Student Project, 09.2009 -- 05.2010, A GUI for the Dialogue Game Description Language (DGDL)
Mark Snaith, Ph.D Second Supervision, 10.2009 -- 01.2011, Employed on the EPSRC funded Dialectical Argumentation Machines Project (EP/G060347/1)
Patrick Balmer, Senior Honours Project, 09.2008 -- 05.2009, Simulating a hive mind using intelligent agents
Mark Snaith, Senior Honours Project, 09.2008 -- 05.2009, OVA: Online Visualisation of Argument
Heng Dai, MSc Applied Computing Dissertation, 09.2008 -- 05.2009, An online GUI for the Dialogue Game Description Language (DGDL)
Ewan Cunningham, Senior Honours Project, 09.2008 -- 05.2009, Constructing and load testing a prototype computational cluster
Colin Gourlay, Senior Honours Project, 09.2008 -- 05.2009, An argument blogging prototype
Bryan Haddow, Senior Honours Project, 09.2008 -- 05.2009, A Web GUI for building \& verifying Dialogue Game Description Language (DGDL) game descriptions
Minh Nhat Pham, MSc Applied Computing Dissertation, 09.2007 -- 05.2008, Building an international arguing agents competition server
Philip Thompson, Senior Honours Project, 09.2007 -- 05.2008, Automated traffic management using autonomous intelligent agents
Waqar Zafar, MSc Intelligent Computational Systems Dissertation, 09.2007 -- 05.2008, Agent Development for Breast Cancer Research
Syed Hussain, MSc Intelligent Computational Systems Dissertation, 09.2007 -- 05.2008, Agent-based automated vehicle management
Debora Kagohara, MSc Computing & Business Dissertation, 04.2007 -- 09.2007, Virtual Ant Farm