2001 Ph.D. Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, University of Sussex, UK
Evolutionary Computation, Automated Heuristic Design, Fitness Landscape Analysis, Fitness Landscape Visualisation, Hyper-heuristics, Meta-heuristics, Machine Learning, Data Science, Search Based Software Engineering Scheduling, Combinatorial Optimisation, Medical Optimisation
Organiser and/or program chair for several international events such as GECCO, PPSN, FOGA and CEC and was the Editor-in-Chief for GECCO 2017
