I am a Professor in Computational Intelligence at the University of Exeter (based in the South-West of the United Kingdom).

Current group members include: Melike Karatas; Carina Ivascu; Goncalo Lieria; James Sakal; Greg Daly; Finley Gibson; Nicholas Sanders. Associate members: Eliza Duncan; Ben Fourcin; Tianle Zhang (Liverpool).

Previous group members include: Dr Abdulaziz Almutairi; Dr Amjad Alsuwaylimi; Dr Khulood Alyahya; Silvia Candia; Dr Tinkle Chugh; Dr George De Ath; Dr Kevin Doherty; Dr Richard Fredlund; Dr Yang Liu (CSC Visiting Scholar, 2015/2016); Dr Daniel Maxwell; Jake Pitt; Dr Alma Rahat; Dr William Reckhouse; Dr Tim Seah; Prof. Choali Sun (CSC Visiting Academic Summer 2019-Summer 2020); Dr David Walker.

Research

My research interests and that of my research group span heuristic optimisation and machine learning. You can find various links and stats at my google scholar page.

Teaching

I currently teach on COMM510 Multi-Objective Optimisation and Decision Making (a masters level module) and supervise undergraduate and postgraduate research students. I have taught previously on a wide range of modules including:

Stage 1

• Data Structures and Algorithms
• Object Oriented Programming
• Social and Professional Issues of the Information Age

Stage 2

• Design and Method for Software Engineering
• Frontiers of Computer Science
• Outside The Box: Computer Science Research and Applications
• Software Development

Stage 4

• Evolutionary Computation and Optimisation
• Group Research Project
• Multi-Objective Optimisation and Decision Making
• Software Development for Business
• Tools and Techniques

Administrative and Professional Activities

I am the Computer Science Director of Research and Impact at the University of Exeter. I am also a fellow of the Higher Education Academy, memmber of IEEE and ACM, along with the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society and the ACM Special Interest Group on Evolutionary Computation.