I am a PhD student on the MAC-MIGS CDT at the University of Edinburgh. My research interests lie at the intersection of applied mathematics, developmental biology and machine learning. I am jointly supervised by Prof. Richard Blythe, Dr Linus Schumacher and Dr Tibor Antal. I am currently focused on applying machine learning and PDEs to modelling spatiotemporal pattern formation in complex biological systems. I am also working on adversarial safety of image generators.

I am also an active musician, involved in various projects across different genres.

Publications

Learning spatio-temporal patterns with Neural Cellular Automata

Alex D. Richardson, Richard A Blythe, Tibor Antal, Linus J. Schumacher. "Learning spatio-temporal patterns with Neural Cellular Automata." PLOS Computational Biology.

On the Vulnerability of Concept Erasure in Diffusion Models

Lucas Beerens, Alex D. Richardson, Kaicheng Zhang, Dongdong Chen. "On the Vulnerability of Concept Erasure in Diffusion Models." Arxiv.