Dr Sean Anderson

School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Senior Lecturer

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s.anderson@sheffield.ac.uk
Amy Johnson Building

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Dr Sean Anderson
School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Amy Johnson Building
Portobello Street
Sheffield
S1 3JD
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Dr Sean Anderson is a senior lecturer in the Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering, ±¬ÁÏTV; He received the MEng degree in Control Systems Engineering from the Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering, ±¬ÁÏTV, Sheffield, U.K., in 2001, and the PhD degree from the Department of Chemical and Process Engineering, ±¬ÁÏTV, in 2005.

He then moved to the Centre for Signal Processing in Neuroimaging and Systems Neuroscience at the Department of Psychology, ±¬ÁÏTV, where he worked as a Research Associate from 2005-2010. He moved to the Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering in 2010 where he is currently pursuing research themes in bioinspired robotics as well as adaptive and optimal control in biological systems.

Research interests
  • Linear, Nonliner and Spatiotemporal System Identification
  • Robotics and Biomechatronics
  • Theoretical Neuroscience and Computational Biology

Research Experience

  • Research Associate in Complex Systems and Signal Processing Group, Dept of ACSE, Univ of Sheffield, 2010-2011.
  • EU FP7 project "Biomimetic Technology for Vibrissal Active Touch" (Biotact), 2009-2010.
  • EPSRC project "Functions of Distributed Plasticity in a Biologically-Inspired Adaptive Control Algorithm: From Electrophysiology to Robotics" (Eyerobot), 2005-2008.
Publications

Journal articles

  • Worley R & Anderson SR (2025) . Journal of Field Robotics, 42(3), 806-826.
  • Worley R, Yu Y, Horoshenkov KV & Anderson SR (2024) . IEEE Sensors Journal, 24(16), 26506-26521.
  • Bidar O, Anderson SR & Qin N (2024) . Physics of Fluids, 36, 015144.
  • Jacobs WR, Kadirkamanathan V & Anderson SR (2024) . IEEE Access, 12, 11052-11065.
  • Yu Y, Horoshenkov K, Worley R & Anderson S (2023) . The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 154(4_supplement), A68-A68.
  • Su J, Anderson S, Javed M, Khompatraporn C, Udomsakdigool A & Mihaylova L (2023) . Neurocomputing, 555.
  • Zhang R, Worley R, Edwards S, Aitken J, Anderson S & Mihaylova L (2023) . IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 8(6), 3406-3413.
  • Edwards S, Zhang R, Worley R, Mihaylova L, Aitken JM & Anderson SR (2023) . Frontiers of Robotics and AI, 10.

Book chapters

  • Bidar O, Anderson SR & Qin N (2025) , Proceedings of the Cambridge Unsteady Flow Symposium 2024 (pp. 121-133). Springer Nature Switzerland
  • Jacobs W & Anderson SR (2024) , Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing (pp. 361-366). Springer Nature Switzerland

Conference proceedings

  • George A, Shepherd W, Tait S, Mihaylova L & Anderson S (2025) . Proceedings of 21st Computing & Control for the Water Industry Conference (CCWI 2025). Sheffield, UK, 1 September 2025 - 1 September 2025.
  • Karnezis A, Worley R, Blight A, Anderson S, Horoshenkov K & Mihaylova L (2025) . Proceedings of the The 21st International Computing & Control in the Water Industry Conference,, CCWI 2025. Sheffield, UK, 1 September 2025 - 1 September 2025.
  • Goswami S, Phelan J, Anderson S & Arvaneh M (2024) . 2024 IEEE International Conference on Metrology for eXtended Reality, Artificial Intelligence and Neural Engineering (MetroXRAINE) (pp 423-428), 21 October 2024 - 23 October 2024.
  • Bidar O, He P, Anderson S & Qin N (2024) . AIAA SCITECH 2024 Forum. Orlando, FL, USA, 8 January 2024 - 8 January 2024.
  • Bidar O, Anderson S & Qin N (2024) . AIAA SCITECH 2024 Forum. Orlando, FL, USA, 8 January 2024 - 8 January 2024.
  • Su J, Anderson S & Mihaylova L (2023) . 2023 26th International Conference on Information Fusion Proceedings. Charleston, SC, USA, 27 June 2023 - 27 June 2023.
  • Abraham C, Anderson SR, Madan S & Dogramadzi S () . HSMR 2025
Grants

Major Grants

  • EU H2020, Dreams4Cars - Dreamlike Simulation Abilities for Automated Cars (Sheffield PI), Jan 2017-Dec 2019, EUR 4 million.
  • EU FP7, NoTremor - Virtual, Physiological and Computational Neuromuscular Models for the Predictive Treatment of Parkinson’s Disease (CI), Jan 2014-Dec 2016, EUR 2.9 million.
  • EPSRC, Assessing the Underworld - An integrated performance model of city infrastructures (EP/K021699/1) (CI), Jun 2013-May 2017, £5,782,838.
  • EPSRC, Bioinspired Control of Electro-Active Polymers for Next Generation Soft Robots (EP/I032533/1) (CI), Jan 2012-Jul 2015, £1,081,051. 

Pilot Funding, Feasibility Studies and Equipment Grants

  • Royal Society Equipment Grant, Oct 2013-Sep 2014, £15,000.
  • Insigneo Bursary for Clinical Translation, funded by Sheffield Hospitals Charity Trust. Gastric Surface Mapping for Future Automated Approaches to Wireless Capsule Endoscopy of the Upper Gastrointestinal (GI) Tract, Dec 2013-Apr 2014, £15,500.
  • Engineering for Life award, funded by the ±¬ÁÏTV. Towards a smart vest for sensing and actuation of wireless capsule endoscopes (PI), Oct 2012-Mar 2013, £31,741.
  • Peninne Water Group, ±¬ÁÏTV. Developing ultrasound sensing technology to assess infrastructure and soil conditions external to buried pipes, Sep 2012-Jan 2013, £15,000.
Teaching activities
  • ACS61011 Deep Learning

Links

Information and Communication Engineering Group