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Profiles
Dr David Walker
Lecturer in Computer Science
School of Computing, Electronics and Mathematics (Faculty of Science and Engineering)
Role
I currently undertake the following academic roles within the School:
- Module lead (ISAD260 and SOFT352).
- I am one of two Admissions Tutors for Computing programmes.
- I am the Exam Coordinator for Computing modules.
Qualifications
I received a BSc in Computer Science from the University of Exeter in 2007, and obtained a PhD in Computer Science from Exeter in 2013 for a thesis entitled "Visualisation and Ordering of Many-objective Populations". Between 2013 and 2018 I held postdoctoral research positions at Exeter, working on a range of topics relating to evolutionary computation and machine learning.
Professional membership
I am a member of the IEEE Task Force on Many-objective Optimisation.
I am a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA)
Teaching interests
This year (2018/19) I am module leader for:
- ISAD260 User-Centred Interface Design
- SOFT352 Client-Side Web Scripting
I am also contributing to:
- AINT252 Computation Theory and Artificial Intelligence
- AINT514 Computer Science Workshop
- SOFT549 HCI, Web and Mobile Development
I am supervising a range of final year projects.
Research interests
My research interests lie in the area of evolutionary computation and visualisation. My recent work has included:
- Visualising sets of solutions to many-objective optimisation problems.
- Visualising the operation and performance of evolutionary algorithms.
- Interactive evolutionary computation for real-world engineering problems.
- Data analysis within hydroinformatics (prediction and visualisation).
Key publications are highlighted
Journals
Articles
2018
'Visualisation with Treemaps and Sunbursts in Evolutionary Many-objective Optimisation'
Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines
, DOI
PEARL
2015
'Multi-criterion water quality analysis of the Danube River in Serbia: A visualisation approach'
Water Research
79,
158-172
, DOI
PEARL
2014
'Life on the Edge: Characterising the Edges of Mutually Non-dominating Sets'
Evolutionary Computation
22,
(3)
479-501
, DOI
2013
'Visualizing Mutually Nondominating Solution Sets in Many-Objective Optimization'
IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation
17,
(2)
165-184
, DOI
Conference Papers
2018
'Toward the Online Visualisation of Algorithm Performance for Parameter Selection'
EvoApplications 2018
Parma, Italy
04/04/2018
06/04/2018
Springer
, DOI
PEARL
2016
'Towards Many-objective Optimisation with Hyper-heuristics: Identifying Good Heuristics with Indicators'
Parallel Problem Solving from Nature (PPSN2016)
, DOI
PEARL
2016
'Multi-objective Optimisation with a Sequence-based Selection Hyper-heuristic'
Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2016)
2015
'Visualising Multi-objective Populations with Treemaps'
Visualisation Methods in Genetic and Evolutionary Computation (GECCO 2015 Workshop)
2013
'Edges of Mutually Non-dominating Sets'
Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2013)
2012
'Visualising Many-objective Populations'
Visualisation Methods in Genetic and Evolutionary Computation (GECCO 2012 Workshop)
Other academic activities
I currently undertake the following academic roles within the School:
- I am one of two Admissions Tutors for Computing programmes.
- I am the Exam Coordinator for Computing modules.
I am a reviewer for the following journals:
- IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation
- Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines
- Computational Intelligence Magazine
- Journal of Hydroinformatics
- Applied Soft Computing
- Control and Cybernetics
I also review for the following conferences:
- Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO) - EMO and GA tracks
- International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN)