I'm a Senior Lecturer in the
Department of Computer Science and Information Systems
in the
University of Limerick and director of the Biocomputing-Developmental Systems group. My research interests are in
Genetic Programming ,
Genetic Algorithms and
Grammatical Evolution, and have been a Science Foundation of Ireland funded
Investigator since 2002.
I am also Director of Software for Evolvability, a Flash Memory and Solid State Disk (SSD) testing and optimization company, that holds several patents in Flash Memory and SSD Controllers. My office is room number CS112 and is located in the Informatics Building . I can be reached at extension 2755, or, from outside the college ring +353 61 202755.
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Click here for a list of my publications. I am director of the Biocomputing-Developmental Systems group.
The work
I did for my PhD got mentioned in Scientific
American. More recent work presented at GECCO 2007 was described in The
New Scientist(July 2007) and The
Economist (December 2007).
I introducted Grammatical Evolution in 1998 along with two
of my PhD students, JJ Collins and Mike O'Neill. According to
Google Scholar, there are now over 1600 publications related to GE, and
it is decribed on Wikipedia.
I currently teach :
CS 4075 - Computer Games Programming - Tools & Techniques
CCS4047 - Multimedia Industry Perspectives
CS 4012 - Representation and Modelling
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I run a
I also
organise an F1 Prediction
League, as well as other time-wasting activities, such various soccer prediction leagues.
I like sports cars. I have a yellow 1972 Porsche 911, 1981 Fiat
X1/9 that I restored and a modern (Mk 2) Toyota MR2.
I spend a lot of time in
Oklahoma.
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