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Profiles
Dr David Walker
Lecturer in Computer Science
School of Engineering, Computing 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.
Teaching interests
This year (2018/19) I am module leader for:
- ISAD260 User-Centred Interface Design
- SOFT352 Client-Side Web Scripting
- AINT252 Computation Theory and Artificial Intelligence
- AINT514 Computer Science Workshop
- SOFT549 HCI, Web and Mobile Development
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
JournalsOther 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.
- IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation
- Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines
- Computational Intelligence Magazine
- Journal of Hydroinformatics
- Applied Soft Computing
- Control and Cybernetics
- Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO) - EMO and GA tracks
- International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN)