Stephen Muggleton

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Artificial intelligence researcher (born 1959)

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Education

Muggleton received his Bachelor of Science degree in computer science (1982) and Doctor of Philosophy in artificial intelligence (1986) supervised by Donald Michie at the University of Edinburgh.

Career

Following his PhD, Muggleton went on to work as a postdoctoral research associate at the Turing Institute in Glasgow (1987–1991) and later an EPSRC Advanced Research Fellow at Oxford University Computing Laboratory (OUCL) (1992–1997) where he founded the Machine Learning Group. In 1997 he moved to the University of York and in 2001 to Imperial College London. From 2025, Muggleton has joined Nanjing University as a full-time professor.

Research

Muggleton's research interests are primarily in Artificial intelligence. From 1997 to 2001 he held the Chair of Machine Learning at the University of York and from 2001 to 2006 the EPSRC Chair of Computational Bioinformatics at Imperial College in London. Since 2013 he holds the Syngenta/Royal Academy of Engineering Research Chair as well as the post of Director of Modelling for the Imperial College Centre for Integrated Systems Biology. He is known for founding the field of Inductive logic programming. In this field he has made contributions to theory introducing predicate invention, inverse entailment and stochastic logic programs. He has also played a role in systems development where he was instrumental in the systems Duce, Cigol, Golem, Progol and Metagol and applications – especially biological prediction tasks.

He worked on a Robot Scientist together with Ross D. King{{Cite journal | last1 = King | first1 = R. D. | author-link1 = Ross D. King | last2 = Whelan | first2 = K. E. | last3 = Jones | first3 = F. M. | last4 = Reiser | first4 = P. G. K. | last5 = Bryant | first5 = C. H. | last6 = Muggleton | first6 = S. H. | author-link6 = Stephen Muggleton | last7 = Kell | first7 = D. B. | author-link7 = Douglas Kell | last8 = Oliver | first8 = S. G. | author-link8 = Stephen Oliver (scientist) | doi = 10.1038/nature02236 | title = Functional genomic hypothesis generation and experimentation by a robot scientist | journal = Nature | volume = 427 | issue = 6971 | pages = 247–252 | year = 2004 | pmid = 14724639 | title-link = Robot Scientist | bibcode = 2004Natur.427..247K | s2cid = 4428725 | doi = 10.1007/s10994-014-5471-y | title = Meta-interpretive learning of higher-order dyadic datalog: Predicate invention revisited | journal = Machine Learning | year = 2015 | last1 = Muggleton | first1 = S. H. | last2 = Lin | first2 = D. | last3 = Tamaddoni-Nezhad | first3 = A. | volume=100 | pages=49–73 | doi-access = free| hdl = 10044/1/23814 | hdl-access = free

References

References

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  2. http://www.raeng.org.uk/about/fellowship/fellowslist.htm List of Fellows of the Royal Academy of Engineering
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  4. "Professor Stephen H. Muggleton". Imperial College.
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  6. [http://gow.epsrc.ac.uk/NGBOViewPerson.aspx?PersonId=11287 Grants awarded to Stephen Muggleton] by the [[Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council]]
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  8. (1996). "Theories for mutagenicity: A study in first-order and feature-based induction". Artificial Intelligence.
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  10. Muggleton, Stephen. (1987). "Inductive acquisition of expert knowledge". University of Edinburgh.
  11. (1997). "Inductive Logic Programming".
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  13. (1999). "Scientific knowledge discovery using inductive logic programming". Communications of the ACM.
  14. "Prof Stephen Muggleton". The Royal Institution of Great Britain.
  15. (1991). "Inductive logic programming". New Generation Computing.
  16. Muggleton S.H. "Inductive Logic Programming", Academic Press, 1992.
  17. (1995). "Inverse entailment and progol". New Generation Computing.
  18. (1994). "Inductive Logic Programming: Theory and methods". The Journal of Logic Programming.
  19. (1997). "Inductive Logic Programming".
  20. "Golem". AI Japanese Institute for Science.
  21. (2007-07-12). "What computing can teach biology, and vice versa". The Economist.

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