Simon Colton

Simon Colton is a Professor of Computational Creativity, Games, and Artificial Intelligence at Queen Mary University of London, affiliated with the School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science. His research focuses on AI-driven creativity in domains like music, game design, and visual arts, emphasizing generative techniques and philosophical aspects of creative systems. He leads projects in automated composition, procedural content generation, and interdisciplinary AI applications.

• Education: Extensive background in AI and computational creativity, with a focus on generative systems.
• Research Interests: Computational Creativity, Generative AI, Music Generation, Game Design Automation, and Neuro-Symbolic Systems.

His work explores how AI can autonomously create artistic content, including music, games, and visual art, with notable contributions to frameworks like ANGELINA for game design and The Painting Fool for automated art. Recent projects include AI-driven music composition and tools for creative support (e.g., Gamika, Danesh).

Key grants include the £3M EPSRC-funded IGGI2 Centre for Doctoral Training, focusing on Intelligent Games and Game Intelligence. His lab, the Centre for Multimodal AI, advances research in cross-modal AI creativity.