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Mr David Walker

Postgraduate

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Telephone: 01392 724059

About Me

I have been working toward my PhD at Exeter since September 2008, investigating rank-based multi- and many-objective optimisation techniques with Richard Everson and Jonathan Fieldsend, looking at techniques for optimising with many objectives, and visualising the results. The project is a case studentship with Motorola.

I graduated from Exeter in 2007 with a first-class degree in Computer Science, winning the Informatics Research Institute award for best project, for a project which involved the construction of a recommender system for an e-commerce website.

Research Interests

My research is currently focused on the development of techniques for optimising problems comprising a large number of objectives and visualising the results, in addition to understanding the structure of many-objective populations.

Broad research interests are evolutionary computation, machine learning and pattern recognition.

Teaching

This year I am involved with the delivery of workshops for:

  • ECM1408/9 - Programming for Science/Business

In previous years I have been involved with the delivery of workshops for:

  • ECM1401 - Programming
  • ECM1406 - Data Structures and Team Project
  • ECM2407 - Information Systems
  • ECM3403 - Compilers and Interpreters
  • ECM3408 - Enterprise Computing

Memberships & Professional Activities

I am a member of the following organisations:

  • IEEE (and IEEE Computer Society)
  • ACM
  • AISB

I was a member of the organising committee for the first two years of the Postgraduate Conference for Computing: Applications and Theory (PCCAT 2010 and PCCAT 2011) and was the co-chair of PCCAT 2011. I am now a member of the PCCAT committee.