Staff Profile

Dr Steve Gwynne
Researcher
Mathematical Sciences Department

Telephone: +44 (0)20 8331 8404
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Qualifications
Doctoral Thesis (PhD) - Mathematical Modelling of Human Evacuation Behaviour
(Completed January 2001-External Referee Prof. J. Barnett, WPI, USA).
BSc (Hons) - Computational Mathematics (1st Class), University of Greenwich 1996
(Winner of the Institute of Mathematics, Best Student of the Year award - 1996)
Advanced Level Examinations 3 (Pure Mathematics-‘B’,Physics-‘C’, Sociology-‘A’), (1989)
Ordinary Level Examinations - 11 (1986-7)


External recognition
Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (Member, Charted Mathematician (MIMA CMath))
Member Insitute of Fire Engineers (MIFireE)
London Mathematical Society (Member)
Society of Fire Protection Engineers
International Association for Fire Safety Science (Member)


Awards
Winner Society of Fire Protection Engineering/Jack Bono Award for Engineering Communication, 2008.

Biography
Joined the university as a member of staff in 1999.
Attained Senior Research Feloow.
Roles:
Adjunct Faculty - University of Maryland (US)
Senior Scientist - Hughes Associates, Inc (US)

Currently:
3 book chapters
33 peer-reviewed journal articles
46 peer-reviewed conference articles
13 authorative reports (e.g. government, agency, professional association)
5 trade publications
16 CMS Press

Research/Scholarly interests
Emergency and non-emergency egress behaviour, in a variety of environments including aviation, buildings, maritime vessels and trains. Methods used to simulate such activities, including fields of mathematics/computer science (e.g AI, AL, Evolutionary Game Theory, Learning Automata Theory, Agent-Based Modelling, etc.).

Research projects
National Institute of Standards and Technology
-Conventions in the Collection and Use of Human Performance Data, NIST GCR 10-928, National Institue of Standards and Technology. 2008-2009
-Translating Behavioral Theory of Human Response into Modeling
Practice, NIST GCR 12-972, National Institue of Standards and Technology. 2012.
Funding: $200,000

National Fire Protection Association
-Optimizing Fire Alarm Notification for High Risk Groups, Fire Protection Research Foundation, 2007.
-Optimizing Fire Alarm Notification for High Risk Groups,Research Project, Notification Effectiveness for Large Groups, 2007.
Funding: $120,000

University roles
Member of the Peer Review College
Member of CMS REC

External examiner roles
University of Maryland, USA
University of Canterbury, NZ

Selected publications
- Siddiqui, AA, and Gwynne, SMV, Employing pedestrian observations in engineering analysis, Safety Science, 50(2012) 478–493, 2012.
- Gwynne, SMV, Purser, DA, Boswell, DL, and Sekizawa, A, Understanding and Representing Staff Pre-Warning Delay, Journal of Fire Protection Engineering, 22(2), 77-99, Sage, 2012.
- Gwynne, S, Kuligowski, E, and Nilsson, D, Representing evacuation behavior in engineering terms, Journal of Fire Protection Engineering, 22(2), 133-150, Sage, 2012.
- Ronchi,E., Gwynne, S.M.V.,Purser , D.A., and Colonna,P., Representation of the Impact of Smoke on Agent Walking Speeds in Evacuation Models, FIRE TECHNOLOGY, 2012, DOI: 10.1007/s10694-012-0280-y.
- Ronchi, E, Nilsson, D, Gwynne, S. M. V., Modelling the Impact of Emergency Exit Signs in Tunnels, Fire Technology, v46, 1, 2012.
- Au, Z., Gwynne, S.M.V., and Purser, D., Pre-Warning Delays: Staff Response in Emergency Incidents, Proceedings of EMEVAC (Emergency Evacuation of People from Buildings), Warsaw, Poland, 2011.Gwynne, S.M.V, Improving the Collection and Use of Human Egress Data, Fire Technology, Springer, , Online First™, 7 January 2011.
- Gwynne, S.M.V., Representing Egress Data, Fire Mater. (2011), Fire Mater. 2012; 36:441–457, DOI:
10.1002/fam.1106.
- Gwynne, S.M.V. and Siddiqui, A.A., Understanding and Simulating Large Crowds, Proceedings of the Traffic and Granular Flow ’11, Moscow, Russia, 2011.
- Gwynne, SMV, Collecting, Sharing and Using Human Egress Data, 6th International Conference on Fire Safety
Engineering, Madrid, 2011.
- Gwynne, SMV, Au, SYZ, Purser, D and Boswell, D, Accounting for Staff Response in Engineering Design, Evacuation and Human Behavior in Emergency Situations, University of Cantabira, Santander, Spain, 2011.
- Kuligowski, E.D., Gwynne, S.M.V., Butler, K.M., Hoskins, B.L., and Sandler, C.R., Developing Emergency
Communication Strategies for Buildings, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Technical Note 1733, U.S. Department of Commerce, 2012.
- Robbins, A Kuligowski, E, Gwynne, S, Proposed General Approach to Fire-Safety Scenarios, Technical Report,
National Institute of Standards and Technology, G2012-0371, U.S. Department of Commerce, 2012.

Recent conference presentations
- Gwynne, S, Kuligowski, E.D., Spearpoint, M., More Faults with Defaults, Proceedings of the 5th International Symposium, Human Behaviour in Fire 2012, Cambridge UK, 19-21 September 2012, Interscience Communications Ltd. pp. 263-274. ISBN 978-0-9556548-8-6, 2012.
- Pretorius, M., Gwynne, S. Galea, E., The collection and analysis of data from a fatal large-scale crowd incident, Proceedings of the 5th International Symposium, Human Behaviour in Fire 2012, Cambridge UK, 19-21 September 2012, Interscience Communications Ltd. pp. 263-274. ISBN 978-0-9556548-8-6, 2012.
- Gwynne, S.M.V. and Siddiqui, A.A., Understanding and Simulating Large Crowds, Proceedings of the Traffic and Granular Flow ’11, Moscow, Russia, 2011.
- Gwynne, SMV, Collecting, Sharing and Using Human Egress Data, 6th International Conference on Fire Safety Engineering, Madrid, 2011.
- Gwynne, SMV, Au, SYZ, Purser, D and Boswell, D, Accounting for Staff Response in Engineering Design, Evacuation and Human Behavior in Emergency Situations, University of Cantabira, Santander, Spain, 2011.
- Gwynne, Steven and Kuligowski, Erica, The Faults with Defaults, Interflam 2010, University of Nottingham, UK, 2010.
- Gwynne, Steven, Kuligowski, Erica, and Nilsson, Daniel, Representing Egress Behaviour in Engineering Terms, SFPE Conference on Performance-Based Design, Lund University, 2010.
- Gwynne, SMV, Purser, D, Boswell, DL, and Kuligowski, ED, Pre-Warning Delay: The Forgotten Component in ASET/RSET Calculations, Human Behaviour in Fire, Cambridge, UK, 2009.
- Gwynne, S.M.V. (2009), The Standardization of Human Egress Data, Proceedings of the Human Behaviour in Fire Symposium, Cambridge, UK, pp 481-493.
- Gwynne, S.M.V. and Boswell, D.L., Using Human and Technological Resources to Manage People Movement, Fire Suppression and Detection Research and Applications: A Technical Working Conference (SUPDET 2009), National Fire Protection Research Foundation, Orlando, FL, February 24–27, 2009.
- Gwynne, S., “Developing Inclusive Emergency Procedures,” Fire Safety Science – Proceedings of the 9th International Symposium, International Association of Fire Safety Science, Karlsruhe, Germany, September 21–26, 2008.
- Gwynne, S.M.V. and Kuligowski, E.D., “Application Modes of Egress Simulation,” Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Pedestrian and Evacuation Dynamics (PED2008), University of Wuppertal, Germany, February 27–29, 2008.
- Kuligowski, E.D. and Gwynne, S.M.V., “The Need for Behavioral Theory in Evacuation Modeling,” Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Pedestrian and Evacuation Dynamics (PED2008), University of Wuppertal, Germany, February 27–29, 2008.


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