Hi I’m Joe Hale. I’m a researcher living in the San Francisco, CA. I’m interested in modelling behaviour, data analysis in Matlab, yoga, surfing, rock climbing and messing around with websites.

Crowd Research

I’ve most recently been researching the motion and behaviour of pedestrians. I was working on this project with Professor Iain Couzin and Dr Simon Garnier at Princeton University and Professors Sir John Krebs and Alex Kacelnik at Oxford University and Oxford Risk.

I designed and ran studies of human behaviour. I enjoyed close collaboration with people working on state of the art computer vision applications. I’ve developed methods for managing and processing the distributed analysis of large amounts of data processed by hundreds of people across the world. I performed statistical analysis on various aspects of people’s behaviour and developed models of their motion and behaviour.

You can check out my full Résumé or just see the brief summary below:

Education

2004-2008 D. Phil “Automated tracking and collective behaviour in locusts and humans”, Oxford University.

I carried out my D. Phil (PhD) in Animal Behaviour at the University of Oxford under the supervision of David Sumpter, Iain Couzin and Stephen Simpson.  I successfully defended my D.Phil (PhD) thesis in August 2oo8.

2003-2004 MRes in Mathematics in the Living Environment, University of York. Passed with distinction.

1999-2003 MMath (Hons) Mathematics and Computer Science, University of York. First Class honours.

Publications

Bazazi, S., Romanczuk, P., Thomas, S., Schimansky-Geier, L., Hale, J. J., & Miller, G. A., et al. (2010). “Nutritional state and collective motion: from individuals to mass migration.“ Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B, published online.

Bazazi, S, Buhl, J., Hale, J.J., Anstey, M.L., Sword, G.A., Simpson, S.J. & Couzin, I.D. (2008) “Collective motion and cannibalism in locust marching bands” Current Biology 18(10), 735-739.

Buhl, J., Sumpter, D.J.T., Couzin, I.D., Hale, J.J., Despland, E., Miller, E. & Simpson, S.J. (2006) “From disorder to order in marching locusts” Science 312, 1402-1406.

Clarke, R.T., Mouquet, N., Thomas, J.A., Hochberg, M.E., Elmes, G.W., Tesar, D., Singer, A. & Hale, J. (2005) “Modelling the local population dynamics of Maculinea and their spatial interactions with their larval foodplant and Myrmica ant species”. In: Studies on the Ecology and Conservation of Butterflies in Europe, Vol.2: Species along a European Gradient: Maculinea Butterflies as a Model, pp115-19 (E. Kuehn, J. Thomas, R. Feldmann & J. Settele Eds.)