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- david.walker@plymouth.ac.uk

Profiles
Dr David Walker
Biography
Biography
I currently undertake the following academic roles within the School:
- Module lead (COMP2002, COMP3006 and COMP5009).
- I am the Programme Manager for all of the programmes in the Computing undergraduate suite.
- I am the Programme Champion for MSc Artificial Intelligence
- I am the Exam Coordinator for Computing modules.
- I supervise a number of PhD students undertaking research in topics such as evolutionary computation and machine learning.
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
- Member of the IEEE Task Force on Many-objective Optimisation.
- Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA)
- Member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Roles on external bodies
Committee member of the Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour (AISB)
Key publications
Teaching
Teaching
Teaching interests
This year (2021/22) I am module leader for:
- COMP2002 Artificial Intelligence
- COMP3006 Full-Stack Development
- COMP5009 Computational Intelligence
Staff serving as external examiners
- External Advisor for BSc Computing, National Commission for Further and Higher Education, Malta (June 2021)
- External Examiner for MSc Data Science, University of Gloucestershire (2021-2024)
- External Examiner for BSc Computer Science, University of Hertfordshire (2021-2025)
- External Advisor for MSc Computer Science, National Commission for Further and Higher Education, Malta (October 2020)
Research
Research
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).
Research degrees awarded to supervised students
Completed PhD Project Supervision as Supervisor
- Dr Hussein Oudah, Profiling and Identification of Web Applications in Computer Networks (2020)
Publications
Publications
Key publications
Key publications are highlighted
JournalsPersonal
Personal
Conferences organised
I have organised the following conferences and workshops:
- Co-Chair of the organising committee of Visualisation in Genetic and Evolutionary Computation (VizGEC) workshop held annually at GECCO (2012-2019).
- Member of the organising committee of the 2013 AISB Convention (AISB 2013).
- Member of the organising committee of the 2015 UK Workshop on Computational Intelligence (UKCI 2015).
Other academic activities
I currently undertake the following academic roles within the School:
- I am the Programme Manager for all undergraduate 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
I also review for the following conferences:
- Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO) - EMO and GA tracks
- International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN)