Invited Talks
Plenaries:
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Unconventional Computing 2008 (Austria)
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IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation 2008, (Hong Kong)
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Adaptive
Computation in Design and Manufacture 06 (UK)
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Intelligent
Systems Design and Application 05 (Poland),
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Evolution
Artificielle 05 (France),
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Hybrid Intelligent
Systems 03 (Australia),
Keynotes:
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China/UK Workshops
on Nature Inspired Computing (04 – 2 talks, 06 – 1 talk, USTC, China);
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Workshop on Bio-inspired Biocomputing, 2006 (at PPSN, Iceland)
Invited Tutorials:
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PPSN 2008 (Dortmund), on Bioinformatics
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PPSN 2002 (Spain),
on Bioinformatics
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IEEE CEC
2002 (USA), on Evolutionary Scheduling
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IEEE CEC 2003,
Australia, on Bioinformatics
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IEEE CEC 2004 (San
Diego); on Bioinformatics
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MOPGP 2006
(France, presented by Joshua Knowles, `semiplenary' on Evolutionary
Multiobjective Optimisation)
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PPSN 2006
(Iceland), on Bioinformatics
Conferences
Conference
Steering Committee Memberships
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EMO:
Evolutionary Multiobjective Optimization (from 2001)
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(PATAT:
Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling (1997—2002; resigned 2002))
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PPSN:
Parallel Problem Solving from Nature (from 2002)
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EvoBio: Evolutionary Computation in Bioinformatics (from 2006)
General Chair
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co-chair (with P. Frisco), Workshop on Membrane Computing 2008,
Edinburgh
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Vice chair
2007 International Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Methods, at WorldComp'07,
Las Vegas.
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Vice chair 2007
International Conference on Bioinformatics and Computational Biology,, at
WorldComp'07, Las Vegas
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(co chair with Gwenn Volkert and Jagath Rajapakse) 2007
IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics and Computational
Biology, Hawaii,
US
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(co-chair, with
Elena Marchiori) 2007 EvoBIO:
6th European Workshop on Evolutionary Computation in Bioinformatics,
Valencia, Spain
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(co-chair, with
Elena Marchiori) 2006 EvoBIO:
5th European Workshop on Evolutionary Computation in Bioinformatics,
Budapest, Hungary
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2005 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary
Computation, Edinburgh, UK
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(co-chair, with
Elena Marchiori) 2005 EvoBIO:
4th European Workshop on Evolutionary Computation in Bioinformatics,
Lausanne, Switzerland
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(co-chair with Gary Fogel) IEEE CIBCB 2004: IEEE Symposium on
Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
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(co-chair, with Mario Koeppen and A. Abraham) Hybrid
Intelligent Systems 2004, Kitakyushu, Japan
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(co-chair, with
Elena Marchiori) 2004 EvoBIO:
3rd European Workshop on Evolutionary Computation in Bioinformatics, Coimbra,
Portugal
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(co-chair, with
Elena Marchiori) 2003 EvoBIO:
2nd European Workshop on Evolutionary Computation in Bioinformatics,
Essex, UKl
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(co-chair, with
Elena Marchiori) 2002 EvoBIO:
1st European Workshop on Evolutionary Computation in Bioinformatics,
Birmingham, UK
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(co-chair, with
Andrew Martin, 2001 AISB Workshop on Artificial Intelligence in Bioinformatics,
Birmingham, UK
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(co-chair, with
George Smith and Martin Oates) 2000 EctelNET: 1st
European Workshop on Evolutionary Computing in Telecommunications,
Birmingham,
UK
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(co-chair, with
Peter Bentley) 1999 AISB Workshop on Creative Evolutionary Systems, Sussex,
UK
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(co-chair, with
Jon Shapiro) 1997 AISB Workshop on Evolutionary Computing,
Manchester,
UK
Technical
Chair
Workshops
Chair
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2002 PPSN
VII , in Granada,
Spaiin
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2000 PPSN VI, Paris,
France
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2000 SAB, Paris,
France
Program Committee / Advisory
Board Memberships
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AAIA: Symposium on Advances in Artificial
Intelligence and Applications: 07
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ACDM: Adaptive Computing in Design &
Manufacture, 02—06
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AID: Artificial
Intelligence in Design, 95—02
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Beijing
International Workshop on Heuristics, 02
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ANTS: International
Conference on Ant Colony Optimisation, 00, 02
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CEC: IEEE Congress on Evolutionary
Computation, 96—07
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CIBCB: Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology:
04, 05, 06, 07
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CIRAS: International
Conference on Computational Intelligence, Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 03
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Computational and
Cognitive Models of Creative Design, 01
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EMO: Evolutionary Multiobjective Optimisation, 00—07
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EvoCOP:
Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimization, 01—06
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FOGA: Foundations of
Genetic Algorithms, 02
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GECCO: Genetic and Evolutionary
Computation, 99—06
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HIS: Hybrid Intelligent Systems, 03, 04,
05, 06
- ICTAI: Tools with Artificial
Intelligence, 06
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IDEAL: Intelligent
Data Engineering and Automated Learning, 03--06
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IJCAI: International
Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 03
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ICMLA: International
Conference on Machine Learning and Applications, 03
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KES Knowledge-Based
Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems. 04—06
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PATAT: Practice and
Theory of Automated Timetabling, 97—02
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PPSN:
Parallel Problem Solving from Nature, 98—06
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SEAL: Asia-Pacific
Conference on Simulated Evolution and L:earning,
02—06
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UC: unconventional computing, 06
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-- and various workshops, associated or not with various of the above
Bodies, Working Groups, Committees, …
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Member of the EPSRC College, from 2002 onwards
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Member of the International Association for Pattern Recognition Technical
Committee on Pattern Recognition for Bioinformatics
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(Co-Chair, IEEE Task Force on Computational Intelligence in
Bioinformatics) (until 2004 or so?)
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Co-Chair, with Elena Marchiori,
of the EvoNet Working Group on Bioinformatics
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(Co-Chair, with George Smith, of the EVONET Working group on Telecomms) (until 2002)
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Steering Committee Member of Hans-Georg
Beyer’s Evolutionary Algorithms Glossary project
External Examining
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1998—2001
MSc in Data Mining and Knowledge Extraction, UEA,
UK
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2004+
MSc in Intelligent Interactive Systems (and some related MScs), Plymouth
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2007+ certain MSc courses at Birmingham
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PhDs -- Aarhus (2), Aberystwyth (1),
Birmingham (1 - Mphil), Coventry
(1 - Mphil), Essex
(1), Exeter
(1), Hong Kong P.U. (2), Leeds (3), Liverpool
(1), Napier (2), Portsmouth (1), U. of Queensland (1), Sheffield
(1 - Mphil), Surrey (1), UEA
(1), UWE (3)
Publications
A reasonably up-to-date list is here:
Most cited seems to be: Knowles,
J.D. and Corne, D.W. (2000) Approximating the non-dominated front using the
Pareto Archived Evolution Strategy, Evolutionary
Computation, 8(2):149-172. ISSN 1063-6560 -- with
690 citations as of August 2009; here
is a pre-publication version -- the final version can be obtained from the journal's
web site; the first paper describing the PAES algorithm
(in CEC'99) has 367 citations to date.
My first edited book: Corne, D. Dorigo, M., Glover, F.
(eds) (1999) New Ideas in Optimization, McGraw-Hill, 525pp.
has 408 citations to date (394 plus more cites of it with
various different versions of title and set of editors!). Altogether my edited books seem
to have
accumulated ~700 citations to date, not including proceedings or citations
to
chapters in the books.
Another with >200 citations is: H-L Fang,
P.M.Ross, D.Corne, ``A Promising GA Approach to Jon Shop Scheduling,Rescheduling
and Open-Shop
Scheduling Problems'', in Proc. 5th ICGA, Morgan Kaufmann,
pp. 375--382, 1993. This has 229 citations to date. The
ideas developing in that work were the roots of what is commonly known now
as
`hyperheuristics' -- the next step on the way was:
Fang, Corne, Ross, "A
Promising Hybrid GA/Heuristic Approach to Open Shop problems, Proceedings
of ECAI 94: 11th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence}, A. Cohn (ed.),
pp. 590--594, John Wiley and Sons Ltd, 1994. -- this one has just
55 citations
to date, and the last publication in this line before `hyperheuristics'
started to get really noticed (Peter coined this term soon after
and got funding for an EPSRC project to start developing it further).
Another with >200 citations is: Corne, D.W., Knowles, J.D. and
Oates, M.J. (2000). The Pareto-Envelope based Selection
Algorithm for Multiobjective Optimisation,
in Schoenauer, M., Deb, K., Rudolph, G., Yao, X., Lutton, E., Merelo, J.J.
and Schwefel, H-P. (eds.) Parallel Problem Solving from Nature - PPSN VI,
Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pp. 869--878. ISBN 3-540-41056-2 ---
which has 265citations to date; this describes another
novel MOEA called PESA. The next version, PESA-II, has
127 citations.
Another with >200 citations is: Knowles, J.D., Corne, D.W.
(2002) On Metrics for Comparing Non-Dominated Sets
, Proc. of the 2002 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, IEEE Press, pp.
711-716, ISBN 0-7803-7278-6, 2002. -- with 206 citations; this work
assesses the relative merits of various metrics for comparing performance in
multi-objective optimisation -- since this involves comparing sets rather than
solutions, it is a much more complex matter than the case in single-objective
optimisation.
Another with >100 citations is: Knowles, J.D., Corne, D.W.
(2000) M-PAES: a memetic algorithm for multiobjective
optimization,
Proc. of the 2000 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, IEEE Press, --
with 167 citations; this work
introduced the first (we think) memetic algorithm (hybrid of population based
and local search) for multiobjective optimisation.
Notable newer papers whose work is seeming to catch on include:
J. Knowles and D. Corne (2003) ‘Properties of an
adaptive archiving algorithm for storing nondominated vectors’. IEEE Trans
Evolutionary Computation, 7(2), pp. 100-116. ISSN
1089-778X This has about 58 citations so far, and was awarded the
`Outstanding
Paper prize for the IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Compution, 2003 issues';
in it we derive a range of relatively useful (considering there was very little
previously) and entirely new observations concerning the business of maintaining
a good approximation to the Pareto Set while your optimiser is running.
With 63 citations already, this one is one of
my
favourite candidates for catching on :
Knowles, J.D., Watson, R. and Corne, D. (2001)
Reducing
Local Optima in Single-Objective Problems by Multiobjectivization, in Zitzler,
Deb, Thiele, Coello, Corne (eds.), Evolutionary Multi-Criterion optimization,
Springer LNCS 1993, pp. 269--283. ISBN 3-540-41745-1 -- it is about an
idea for using multiobjective search in certain ways to address single objective
problems, and indeed it certainly seems to help, and I think there are deep
interesting reasons for this that we haven't really explored.
Sinka, M.P., and Corne, D.W. (2005), The BankSearch web
document dataset: investigating unsupervised clustering and category similarity,
in Journal of Network and Computer Applications, 28 (2):129—146. ISSN 1084-8045
This only has 4 citation to date, but it is the `proper' journal paper
introducing a dataset (and more) that was first in
Sinka, M.P., Corne, D.W. (2002) A large benchmark
dataset for web document clustering, in Abraham, A., Ruiz-del-Solar, J., Koeppen,
M. (eds.), Soft Computing Systems: Design, Management and Applications,
Volume
87 of Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications, ISBN: 1 58603 297
6, 2002, pp. 881-890. which has 55 citations to date. It
is a really useful
document dataset for certain web intelligence investigations and folk are
beginning to use it. Unfortunately the link given in the paper to the dataset is
no longer active, however Statlib has it
here.
Indulge me by allowing a mention of, my first ever paper in my main field,
which is:
D.Corne, H-L. Fang, C.Mellish: ``Solving
the Modular Exam Scheduling Problem with Genetic Algorithms'', in {\em
Proceedings of the
6th International Conference on Industrial and Engineering Applications of
Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems}, P. Chung, G. Lovegrove, M. Ali
(eds.), Gordon and Breach Science Publishers, pp. 370--373, 1993. This has
~58 citations to date -- it was the very early days of stochastic automated
timetabling, and we were the second to do it with EAs
(there was earlier work by Abramson and Abela on smaller problems) and this
was our
first (but not most cited) publication on it. It arose from Fang's MSc
work.
Finally, there is more and different current and recent work that I think is
very important, innovative, etc, and may have a chance of real impact, but I
will only put them here if and when they get to 20 or more citations. And of
course there is past work that I think should be cited more (I mean, don't
people realize how great it is that we have a free lunch in
multi-objective optimisation!) --
however, I guess we all feel this way ...:).
Some Ex-Students
If you are an ex-student of mine (re MSc or PhD thesis supervision), but are
not on this list, please tell me what you are up to now. If you are on this
list, please provide an update!
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Joshua Knowles did
his PhD at Reading with me, and was then a Marie Curie Research Fellow at IRIDIA , and is now a David Phillips Research Fellow at
the University of Manchester. We remain in a fruitful collaboration, but not as
fruitful as his with Julia Handl,
which gave rise on 25/09/06 to Luca.
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Andrew Meade did his PhD with me and with
Richard Sibly at
Reading; he is now a Research Fellow in Biological Sciences at Reading.
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Martin Oates was a part-time PhD student with me while working for BT, he has
since taken up the research life full time, or as full time as possible while
you have a barn and other farm buildings to feed and children to build; he is an
autonomous research fellow. working with me 20% time at the moment. Martin's
thesis was the closest I have ever known to needing no corrections. In
the end, he had to change the title, but nothing else.
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Both Dae Gyu Kim and Luis Francisco
Gonzalez Hernandez moved on from their MScs supervised by me at Edinburgh to
do PhDs at the School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences , University
of Sussex at Brighton. Dae Gyu now works for a large corporation in Seoul.
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Zelmina Lubovac, now a postdoc in the
Bioinformatics Group at the
University of
Skövde, finished here PhD in early 2008 - I had the privelege of being her
`official' supervisor, although the day to day supervision was done by
Bjorn Olsson,
at Skovde, where Zelmina was based throughout. My job was to advise now and
then, mainly in later stages.
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Sarah
Price did her MSc project with some aid from me at Edinburgh, was the `Webspinner' for Fife College, and worked at the Institue for
Computer-Based Learning at Heriot Watt University; she is now in a
management role working for JISC in the area of IT Provision in further
education.
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Carey Pridgeon got his PhD in June 2008; during and since he
does substantial personal research which we are hoping to get funds for, not
least applications of his nmod
system (which started as his u/g project at Reading)
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I helped supervise Emma
Collingwood's MSc at Edinburgh with Peter Ross, she then took over my research associateship
there at the Deprtment of
Artificial Intelligence, University of
Edinburgh, became Emma Hart, and is now a lecturer at Napier University.
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Alasdair
Turner did his MSc with me at Edinburgh and then became a Research Fellow at the Department
of Computer Science, UCL.
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Mark Sinka did his Phd with me at Reading, sponsored and
part-working for BankSearch, and now works for
Mirago.
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Mark Shackelford did his PhD with me at Reading, and then did
a visiting research fellowship at UWE with Ian Parmee, and is now CEO of
Advanced Computational Technologies;
he also writes and sells
Feng Shui ware. Martin Oates did his PhD with me at Reading, and is now an
autonomous research with affiliations to our charity, Evolsolve, and writing
lighting control software for a startup company.
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Phil Dixon did his PhD with me and Martin Oates at Reading,
and now works for
Raven Research, doing both
hardware and software for embedded equipment control and PC based control apps,
adding to the product range at Raven
Micro.
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Hsiao-Lan Fang did his PhD with Peter Ross and me at
Edinburgh, and then went back to Taiwan to work for a large corporation.
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Sarah Gulliford did her PhD at the
Joint Department of Physics, Institute of Cancer Research and Royal Marsden
Hospital, supervised by myself and Steve Webb; she then had a number of
offers, finally taking up a post in radiology at Warwick Hospital (I think ...
Sarah, I've lost your email -- please remind me if you see this).
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Xu Wang has just been awarded his PhD on Artificial
Intelligence for Financial Time Series Prediction, which he started at the
University of Reading in 2002; I had the pleasure of working with him for the
first year of his PhD, but then I left Reading, and Graham Megson took him
through successfully to the end. Xu is now a Senior Officer with the Bank of
China!.
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Jonas Gamalielson, was in the
Bioinformatics Group at the
University of
Skövde (along with Zelmina, see above), and successfully passed
his PhD viva here at HW in August 2009 - his PhD invents and tests teh
novel
notion of aligning bioinformatic pathways; I had the privelege of being his
`official' supervisor, although Jonas was largely autonomous with day to day support from
Bjorn Olsson,
at Skovde. I expect Jonas to shortly obtain a permanet faculty
position in Sweden.
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Silang (Robert) Luo successfully passed his PhD
viva in July 2009, with a PhD thesis that sets out an essential but
overlooked
notion in feature selection techniques for large datasets. Basically,
to choose the right feature selection method, you should really look
at some basic statistics of the dataset itself first.
Robert and I continue to work together while he seeks a position in
the UK.
