Education PhD in Computer Science (Department of Computing, Division of Information and Communication Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, 2001) Master of Arts in Economics (Econometrics, Department of Economics, University of Missouri-Columbia, USA, 1994) Master of Science (Honours) in Applied Mathematics (School of Applied Mathematics, Faculty of Automation of Manufacturing Processes, Azerbaijan Institute of Oil and Chemistry, Baku, USSR, 1988) Professional Memberships Adjunct Associate Professor in the School of Computer Science and Engineering, the University of New South Wales Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Computing, Macquarie University (an adjunct position)   member of IEEE member of IEEE Information Theory Society member of the International Society for Adaptive Behavior (ISAB) COSNet: Complex Open Systems ARC Network (established 2004) Intelligent Systems Group (Macquarie University, Sydney) Chief co-investigator in external research grants with the University of Wollongong; UNSW and the University of Western Sydney member of Advisory Board for Wiley book series on Nature Inspired Computing Teaching: full-unit Honours course on Multi-Agent Systems (Macquarie University, 2003) Supervision of students and CSIRO summer vacation scholars  Awards