Short Curriculum Vitae

• Postdoctoral Researcher with Prof. Juergen Jost, studying "Computation and information dynamics in complex networks".
• Ph.D. in Information Technology at The University of Sydney, co-supervised by CSIRO (completed 2010).
• 10 years as a Research Engineer in industry (at Telstra Research Laboratories, Sydney, 2001 to 2006; and at Seeker Wireless, Sydney, 2006 to 2010, part-time), predominantly in mobile applications R&D
• Published over 20 papers in refereed journals and conferences.
• Tertiary qualifications in Engineering, Physics and Computer Science.
• Outstanding academic record, including the University Medal and recognition as most highly ranked Ph.D. applicant to USyd for 2006.
• Full resume/CV available at my personal website.

Research interests

• Computation in complex systems
• Information dynamics of computation
• Information storage
• Information transfer
• Cellular automata
• Random Boolean networks
• Dynamics on networks
• Guided self-organisation
• Comptuational neuroscience

Publications

See and download all publications (plus abstract-only work) here.

Selected publications:

• J.T. Lizier, S. Pritam and M. Prokopenko, "Information dynamics in small-world Boolean networks", accepted by Artificial Life for the Special issue on Complex Networks, 2011
• X. R. Wang, J.T. Lizier and M. Prokopenko, "Fisher information at the edge of chaos in random Boolean networks", accepted by Artificial Life for the Special issue on Complex Networks, 2011.
• J.T. Lizier, J. Heinzle, A. Horstmann, J.-D. Haynes, M. Prokopenko, "Multivariate information-theoretic measures reveal directed information structure and task relevant changes in fMRI connectivity", Journal of Computational Neuroscience, vol. 30, pp. 85-107, 2011.
• J.T. Lizier, M. Prokopenko and A.Y. Zomaya, "Information modification and particle collisions in distributed computation", Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science, vol. 20, no. 3, 037109, 2010.
• J.T. Lizier, and M. Prokopenko, "Differentiating information transfer and causal effect", European Physical Journal B, vol. 73, no. 4, pp. 605-615, 2010.
• J.T. Lizier, M. Prokopenko and A.Y. Zomaya, "Local Information Transfer as a Spatiotemporal Filter for Complex Systems", Physical Review E, vol. 77, 026110, 2008.
• J.T. Lizier and G.E. Town, "Splice Losses in Holey Optical Fibers", IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, Vol. 13, No. 8, pp. 794-796, 2001.
• G.E. Town and J.T. Lizier, "Tapered holey fibers for spot-size and numerical aperture conversion", Optics Letters, Vol. 26, No. 14, pp. 1042-1044, 2001

Collaborations

• CSIRO ICT Centre: Mikhail Prokopenko, Oliver Obst, Rosalind Wang, Mika Rubinov
• University of Sydney: Albert Zomaya, Rommel Ceguerra
• Bernstein Centre for Computational Neuroscience: Jakob Heinzle, John-Dylan Haynes
• Indiana University: Larry Yaeger
• University of Delaware: Jennifer Miller, Louis Rossi