Professor Michael Farber

PhD
Professor of Mathematics, Director of Institute for Applied Data Science
Research
topological robotics, applied and computational topology, applications of topology to statistics and computer science
Interests
Michael Farber is Professor of Mathematics at the School of Mathematical Sciences, Queen Mary, University of London.
Michael Farber is the director of Institute for Applied Data Science (IADS) and a Turing Fellow, he serves as the Turing University Lead for Queen Mary. Prior to Queen Mary, M. Farber held professorships at the Universities of Warwick, Durham and Tel Aviv. Michael Farber obtained his PhD and D.Sc. degrees in the USSR.
His research interests focus on applied and computational topology, topological robotics, applications of topology to statistics and computer science. M.Farber is currently involved in several collaborations: using topological methods in distributed computing in computer science, machine learning techniques in genomics and cancer research and using methods of stochastic topology for modelling brain connectivity.
Michael Farber is the author of several monographs.
M. Farber was awarded many research grants, among them the Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award. His current research project "Probabilistic and Deterministic Topology" is supported by the Leverhulme Trust.
Publications

Publications of specific relevance to Advanced Robotics
2023
Farber M, Gnedin A and Mannan W (2023).
A random graph growth model. Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society 10.1112/blms.12957
Farber M and Weinberger S (2023).
Parametrized topological complexity of sphere bundles. Topological Methods of Nonlinear Analysis 10.12775/TMNA.2022.049
Cohen DC,
Farber M and Weinberger S (2023).
Correction to: Parametrized topological complexity of collision-free motion planning in the plane (Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence, (2022), 90, 10, (999-1015), 10.1007/s10472-022-09801-6). Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence vol. 91, (1) 105-106.
10.1007/s10472-022-09821-22022

Cohen DC,
Farber M and Weinberger S (2022).
Parametrized topological complexity of collision-free motion planning in the plane. Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence vol. 90, (10) 999-1015.
10.1007/s10472-022-09801-62021

Cohen DC,
Farber M and Weinberger S (2021).
Topology of parametrized motion planning algorithms. SIAM Journal on Applied Algebra and Geometry vol. 5, (2) 229-249.
10.1137/20M1358505
Farber M and Even-Zohar C (2021).
Random surfaces with boundary. Discrete and Computational Geometry: an international journal of mathematics and computer science 10.1007/s00454-021-00301-8
Farber M and Nowik T (2021).
TOPOLOGICAL EMBEDDINGS INTO RANDOM 2-COMPLEXES. Random Structures and Algorithms 10.1002/rsa.209872020
Farber M and Mead L (2020).
Random simplicial complexes in the medial regime. Topology and its Applications: a journal devoted to general, geometric, set-theoretic and algebraic topology 107065-107065.
10.1016/j.topol.2020.1070652019
Farber M, Mead L and Nowik T (2019).
Random simplicial complexes, duality and the critical dimension. Journal of Topology and Analysis 1-31.
10.1142/s1793525320500387
Farber M, Grant M, Lupton G and Oprea J (2019).
Bredon cohomology and robot motion planning. Algebraic and Geometric Topology vol. 19, (4) 2023-2059.
10.2140/agt.2019.19.20232017

Costa A and
Farber M (2017).
Large random simplicial complexes, III the critical dimension. Journal of Knot Theory and its Ramifications vol. 26, (2)
10.1142/S02182165174001072016

Cohen D, Costa A,
Farber M and Kappeler T (2016).
Correction to Our Article “Topology of Random 2-Complexes” Published in DCG 47 (2012), pp. 117–149. Discrete and Computational Geometry vol. 56, (2) 502-503.
10.1007/s00454-016-9797-z2015

Costa A,
Farber M and Horak D (2015).
Fundamental groups of clique complexes of random graphs. Transactions of the London Mathematical Society vol. 2, (1) 1-32.
10.1112/tlms/tlv0012013

Costa AE and
Farber M (2013).
The asphericity of random 2‐dimensional complexes. Random Structures and Algorithms vol. 46, (2) 261-273.
10.1002/rsa.204992012
Grants

Grants of specific relevance to Advanced Robotics
DMS-EPSRC Topology of automated motion planningFarber M£460,240
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (01-01-2021 - 31-12-2021)
Probabilistic & deterministic topologyFarber MLeverhulme Trust (01-11-2018 - 31-10-2021)
Challenges of Applied Algebraic TopologyFarber M£236,657
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (06-12-2014 - 29-09-2017)
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