I have a PhD in applied mathematics from the University of Edinburgh, supervised by Prof. Richard Blythe, Dr Linus Schumacher and Dr Tibor Antal. My research covers overlapping areas of applied mathematics, developmental biology and machine learning. I am interested in using machine learning techniques to build computational models of spatiotemporal pattern formation and self organisation in complex biological systems. I am also interested in AI safety, and have worked on the adversarial robustness of concept erasure techniques for 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.