Dr Edgar Galvan

    Computer Science, Hamilton Institute

    Lecturer

    Eolas
    1st Floor
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    Biography

    Dr. Edgar Galvan is Lecturer, above the bar, in the Department of Computer Science, Maynooth University. Prior to this, he held multiple senior research positions in University College Dublin, Trinity College Dublin and INRIA Paris-Saclay. 

    He is an expert in the properties of encodings, such as neutrality and locality, in Genetic Programming as well as a pioneer in the study of Semantic- based Genetic Programming. His research interests also include applications to combinatorial optimisation, games and software engineering. 

    Dr. Edgar Galvan has independently ranked as one of the all-time top 1% researchers in Genetic Programming, according to University College London. 

    He has received competitive research funding from a number of national and international funding agencies including a grant from the National Council for Science and Technology, Mexico to conduct basic research (2013 – 2016 , c. Euro 50K), a Marie Curie Fellowship funded by the Irish Research Council and the European Commission Marie Curie Actions via the FP7 COFUND Programme (2014 – 2017, Euro 267K). Named funded supervisor for the Science Foundation Ireland Centre for Research Training in Foundations of Data Science (2019 – 2026, Euro 21M). He has also received grants from Maynooth University via the Research Enhancement Fund (2019 – 2020, Euro 9,450). In total, he has been responsible for c. Euro 517K. 

    Edgar is or has acted as a senior scientific adviser for the National Council for Science and Technology, Mexico, the National funding agency of the French Government and the Irish Research Council. 

    He has published in excess of nearly 70 peer-reviewed publications including 1 book, 10 journal articles, 39 top-A-rank conference papers and 4 book chapters. Edgar has over 1,200 citations and a H-index of 21. 

    Dr. Galvan is, or has been, a programme committee (PC) member for all the main Bio-inspired Evolutionary Algorithms Conferences, including the ACM GECCO and the IEEE CEC, both top-A-rank conferences. He is one of the few researchers in Ireland that has served as PC member for these conferences (c.600 PC members for each conference).

    During his research career, Dr. Galvan has co-supervised and graduated 4 PhD students. He is formally co-supervising 2 PhD students and fully supervising 1 PhD student. Moreover, he led the supervision of 1 Research Master Students and 2 Taught Master Students. All his 7 graduated postgraduate students published scientific papers in top-tier journals as well as in world-leading international conferences under his supervision, including 3 journal articles and 13 peer-reviewed top-A-rank conference papers. 

    Book

    Year Publication
    2021 S. Brown, R. Bierig, E. Galvan and J. Timoney (2021) Essentials of Software Testing. UK: Cambridge University Press.

    Peer Reviewed Journal

    Year Publication
    2022 Galván E.;Trujillo L.;Stapleton F. (2022) 'Semantics in Multi-objective Genetic Programming'. Applied Soft Computing Journal, 115 . [DOI]
    2022 Galvan E.;Simpson G.;Ameneyro F.V. (2022) 'Evolving the MCTS Upper Confidence Bounds for Trees Using a Semantic-inspired Evolutionary Algorithm in the Game of Carcassonne'. Ieee Transactions On Games, . [DOI]
    2021 Edgar Galván, Oxana Gorshkova, Peter Mooney, Fred Valdez and Erik Cuevas Jimenez (2021) 'Statistical Tree-based Population Seeding for Rolling Horizon EAs in General Video Game Playing'. Journal Research in Computing Science, .
    2021 Galván, Edgar and Mooney, Peter (2021) 'Neuroevolution in Deep Neural Networks: Current Trends and Future Challenges'. 2 (6):476-493. [DOI]
    2021 Edgar Galvan (2021) 'Neuroevolution in Deep Neural Networks: A Comprehensive Survey'. ACM SIGEVOlution, 14 (1):3-7.
    2021 Edgar Galv\'an and Joaqu\'\in Garc\'\ia-Alfaro and Guillermo Navarro-Arribas and Vicen\cc Torra (2021) 'Agents in a privacy-preserving world'. 14 (1):53-63. [Link]
    2020 Vargas-Hakim, GA;Mezura-Montes, E;Galvan, E (2020) 'Evolutionary Multi-Objective Energy Production Optimization: An Empirical Comparison'. Mathematical and Computational Applications, 25 . [DOI]
    2020 Leonardo Trujillo, Ernesto Gonzalez, Edgar Galván, Juan Tapia and Antonin Ponsich (2020) 'On the analysis of hyper-parameter space for a genetic programming system with iterated F-Race'. Soft Computing, . [Link] [DOI]
    2018 Fayaz Doctor, Edgar Galván-López and Edward Tsang (2018) 'Guest Editorial Special Issue on Data-Driven Computational Intelligence for e-Governance, Socio-Political, and Economic Systems (IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence)'. IEEE Transactions on Computers, 2 (3):171-173. [DOI] [Full-Text]
    2016 Yuliana Martínez, Leonardo Trujillo, Pierrick Legrand and Edgar Galván López (2016) 'Prediction of expected performance for a genetic programming classifier'. Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines, 17 (4):409-449. [Link] [DOI] [Full-Text]
    2016 Leonardo Trujillo and Luis Muñoz and Edgar Galván López and Sara Silva (2016) 'neat Genetic Programming: Controlling bloat naturally'. Information Sciences, 333 :21-43. [Link] [DOI] [Full-Text]
    2015 Edgar Galván-López and Tom Curran and James McDermott and Paula Carroll (2015) 'Design of an autonomous intelligent Demand-Side Management system using stochastic optimisation evolutionary algorithms'. Neurocomputing, 170 :270-285. [Link] [DOI] [Full-Text]
    2014 Constantinos Patsakis and Athanasios Zigomitros and Achilleas Papageorgiou and Edgar Galván López (2014) 'Distributing privacy policies over multimedia content across multiple online social networks'. Computer Networks, 75 :531-543. [Link] [DOI] [Full-Text]
    2012 Riccardo Poli and Edgar Galván López (2012) 'The Effects of Constant and Bit-Wise Neutrality on Problem Hardness, Fitness Distance Correlation and Phenotypic Mutation Rates'. IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, 16 (2):279-300. [Link] [DOI] [Full-Text]
    2011 Edgar Galván López and James McDermott and Michael O'Neill and Anthony Brabazon (2011) 'Defining locality as a problem difficulty measure in genetic programming'. Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines, 12 (4):365-401. [Link] [DOI] [Full-Text]
    2011 Nguyen Quang Uy and Nguyen Xuan Hoai and Michael O'Neill and Robert I. McKay and Edgar Galván López (2011) 'Semantically-based crossover in genetic programming: application to real-valued symbolic regression'. Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines, 12 (2):91-119. [Link] [DOI] [Full-Text]
    2011 Edgar Galván López and Riccardo Poli and Ahmed Kattan and Michael O'Neill and Anthony Brabazon (2011) 'Neutrality in evolutionary algorithms... What do we know?'. Evolving Systems, 2 (3):145-163. [Link] [DOI] [Full-Text]
    2008 Galvan-Lopez, Edgar (2008) 'Efficient graph-based genetic programming representation with multiple outputs'. 5 (1):81-89. [Link] [DOI] [Full-Text]

    Conference Publication

    Year Publication
    2022 Deng S.;Sun Y.;Galvan E. (2022) GECCO 2022 Companion - Proceedings of the 2022 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference Neural architecture search using genetic algorithm for facial expression recognition [DOI]
    2022 Galv\'an, Edgar and Trujillo, Leonardo and Stapleton, Fergal (2022) Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference Companion Highlights of Semantics in Multi-Objective Genetic Programming New York, NY, USA, [Link]
    2022 Stapleton, Fergal and Galv\'an, Edgar and Sistu, Ganesh and Yogamani, Senthil (2022) Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference Companion Neuroevolutionary Multi-Objective Approaches to Trajectory Prediction in Autonomous Vehicles New York, NY, USA, [Link]
    2022 Ameneyro, Fred Valdez and Galván, Edgar (2022) 2022 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI) Towards Understanding the Effects of Evolving the MCTS UCT Selection Policy
    2022 Dutta P.;Sistu G.;Yogamani S.;Galvan E.;McDonald J. (2022) Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks ViT-BEVSeg: A Hierarchical Transformer Network for Monocular Birds-Eye-View Segmentation [DOI]
    2021 Stapleton, F;Galvan, E (2021) 2021 IEEE CONGRESS ON EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION (CEC 2021) Semantic Neighborhood Ordering in Multi-objective Genetic Programming based on Decomposition [DOI]
    2021 Galvan E.;Simpson G. (2021) 2021 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence, SSCI 2021 - Proceedings On the Evolution of the MCTS Upper Confidence Bounds for Trees by Means of Evolutionary Algorithms in the Game of Carcassonne [DOI]
    2021 Fergal Stapleton and Edgar Galv\'an (2021) IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, CEC 2021, Krak\'ow, Poland, June 28 - July 1, 2021 Semantic Neighborhood Ordering in Multi-objective Genetic Programming based on Decomposition [Link]
    2020 Galvan, E;Stapleton, F (2020) 2020 IEEE SYMPOSIUM SERIES ON COMPUTATIONAL INTELLIGENCE (SSCI) Semantic-based Distance Approaches in Multi-objective Genetic Programming
    2020 Ameneyro F.V.;Galvan E.;Morales A.F.K. (2020) 2020 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence, SSCI 2020 Playing Carcassonne with Monte Carlo Tree Search [DOI]
    2020 Galvan E.;Stapleton F. (2020) 2020 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence, SSCI 2020 Semantic-based Distance Approaches in Multi-objective Genetic Programming [DOI]
    2020 Ameneyro, FV;Galvan, E;Fernando, A;Morales, K (2020) 2020 IEEE SYMPOSIUM SERIES ON COMPUTATIONAL INTELLIGENCE (SSCI) Playing Carcassonne with Monte Carlo Tree Search
    2019 Galvan, E;Schoenauer, M (2019) PROCEEDINGS OF THE GENETIC AND EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION CONFERENCE (GECCO'19) Promoting Semantic Diversity in Multi-objective Genetic Programming [DOI] [Full-Text]
    2021 Edgar Galv\'an and Gavin Simpson (2021) 2021 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence, SSCI 2021, Orlando, Florida, USA, December 5-7, 2021 On the Evolution of the MCTS Upper Confidence Bounds for Trees by Means of Evolutionary Algorithms in the Game of Carcassonne
    2021 Peter Mooney and Edgar Galv\'an (2021) Proceedings of the Academic Track, State of the Map 2021 . In: Minghini, M. ; Ludwig, C. ; Anderson, J. ; Mooney, P. ; Grinberger, A.Y eds. What has machine learning ever done for us?
    2021 Vicenc Torra and Edgar Galv\'an (2021) The 8th International Conference on Metaheuristics and Nature Inspired Computing META Particle swarm optimisation without panopticon to evaluate private social choice
    2020 Edgar Galván and Fergal Stapleton (2020) Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence Semantic-based Distance Approaches inMulti-objective Genetic Programming
    2020 Fred Valdez Ameneyro and Edgar Galván and Angel Fernando Kuri Morales (2020) Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence Playing Carcassonne with Monte Carlo Tree Search
    2020 Torra, Vicenc and Navarro-Arribas, Guillermo and Galván, Edgar (2020) Privacy in Statistical Databases . In: Domingo-Ferrer, Josep and Muralidhar, Krishnamurty eds. Explaining Recurrent Machine Learning Models: Integral Privacy Revisited Cham, https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-57521-2_5
    2019 Edgar Galván and Marc Schoenauer (2019) Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, GECCO 2019, Prague, Czech Republic, July 13-17, 2019 Promoting semantic diversity in multi-objective genetic programming [Link] [Full-Text]
    2017 Edgar Galván López and Lucia Vázquez-Mendoza and Marc Schoenauer and Leonardo Trujillo (2017) Artificial Evolution - 13th International Conference, Evolution Artificielle, EA 2017, Paris, France, October 25-27, 2017, Revised Selected Papers On the Use of Dynamic GP Fitness Cases in Static and Dynamic Optimisation Problems [Link]
    2016 Edgar Galván López and Lucia Vázquez-Mendoza and Leonardo Trujillo (2016) Advances in Soft Computing - 15th Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, MICAI 2016, Canc\'un, Mexico, October 23-28, 2016, Proceedings, Part II Stochastic Semantic-Based Multi-objective Genetic Programming Optimisation for Classification of Imbalanced Data [Link] [Full-Text]
    2016 Edgar Galván López and Ouassim Ait ElHara (2016) 2016 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence, SSCI 2016, Athens, Greece, December 6-9, 2016 Using fitness comparison disagreements as a metric for promoting diversity in Dynamic Optimisation Problems [Link] [Full-Text]
    2016 Edgar Galván López and Efrén Mezura-Montes and Ouassim Ait ElHara and Marc Schoenauer (2016) Parallel Problem Solving from Nature - PPSN XIV - 14th International Conference, Edinburgh, UK, September 17-21, 2016, Proceedings On the Use of Semantics in Multi-objective Genetic Programming [Link] [Full-Text]
    2015 Edgar Galván López and Marc Schoenauer and Constantinos Patsakis and Leonardo Trujillo (2015) Computational Intelligence - International Joint Conference, IJCCI 2015 Lisbon, Portugal, November 12-14, 2015, Revised Selected Papers Demand-Side Management: Optimising Through Differential Evolution Plug-in Electric Vehicles to Partially Fulfil Load Demand [Link]
    2015 Edgar Galván López and Marc Schoenauer and Constantinos Patsakis (2015) Proceedings of the 7th International Joint Conference on Computational Intelligence (IJCCI 2015) - Volume 1: ECTA, Lisbon, Portugal, November 12-14, 2015 Design of an Autonomous Intelligent Demand-Side Management System by using Electric Vehicles as Mobile Energy Storage Units by Means of Evolutionary Algorithms [Link]
    2014 Edgar Galván López and Ruohua Li and Constantinos Patsakis and Siobhan Clarke and Vinny Cahill (2014) 5th International Conference on Information, Intelligence, Systems and Applications, IISA 2014, Chania, Crete, Greece, July 7-9, 2014 Heuristic-Based Multi-Agent Monte Carlo Tree Search [Link] [Full-Text]
    2014 Adam Taylor and Ivana Dusparic and Edgar Galván López and Siobhan Clarke and Vinny Cahill (2014) 2014 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, IJCNN 2014, Beijing, China, July 6-11, 2014 Accelerating Learning in multi-objective systems through Transfer Learning [Link] [Full-Text]
    2014 Colin Harris and Ivana Dusparic and Edgar Galván López and Andrei Marinescu and Vinny Cahill and Siobhan Clarke (2014) IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Conference, ISGT 2014, Washington, DC, USA, February 19-22, 2014 Set point control for charging of electric vehicles on the distribution network [Link] [Full-Text]
    2014 Edgar Galván López and Adam Taylor and Siobhan Clarke and Vinny Cahill (2014) Symposium on Applied Computing, SAC 2014, Gyeongju, Republic of Korea - March 24 - 28, 2014 Design of an automatic demand-side management system based on evolutionary algorithms [Link] [Full-Text]
    2014 E. Galván-López and C. Harris and L. Trujillo and K. Rodriguez-Vazquez and S. Clarke and V. Cahill (2014) 2014 IEEE International Energy Conference (ENERGYCON) Autonomous Demand-Side Management system based on Monte Carlo Tree Search [Full-Text]
    2014 A. Taylor and I. Dusparic and C. Harris and A. Marinescu and E. Galván-López and F. Golpayegani and S. Clarke and V. Cahill (2014) 2014 IEEE Conference on Technologies for Sustainability (SusTech) Self-organising algorithms for residential demand response [Full-Text]
    2013 Edgar Galván López and Brendan Cody-Kenny and Leonardo Trujillo and Ahmed Kattan (2013) Proceedings of the IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, CEC 2013, Cancun, Mexico, June 20-23, 2013 Using semantics in the selection mechanism in Genetic Programming: A simple method for promoting semantic diversity [Link] [Full-Text]
    2013 Ahmed Kattan and Yew-Soon Ong and Edgar Galván López (2013) Proceedings of the IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, CEC 2013, Cancun, Mexico, June 20-23, 2013 Multi-agent multi-issue negotiations with incomplete information: A Genetic Algorithm based on discrete surrogate approach [Link] [Full-Text]
    2013 Yuliana Martínez and Enrique Naredo and Leonardo Trujillo and Edgar Galván López (2013) Proceedings of the IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, CEC 2013, Cancun, Mexico, June 20-23, 2013 Searching for novel regression functions [Link] [Full-Text]
    2012 Edgar Galván and Colin Harris and Ivana Dusparic and Siobhan Clarke and Vinny Cahill (2012) IEEE Third International Conference on Smart Grid Communications, SmartGridComm 2012, Tainan, Taiwan, November 5-8, 2012 Reducing electricity costs in a dynamic pricing environment [Link] [Full-Text]
    2012 Edgar Galván López and Leonardo Trujillo and James McDermott and Ahmed Kattan (2012) EVOLVE - A Bridge between Probability, Set Oriented Numerics, and Evolutionary Computation II, EVOLVE 2012, Mexico City, Mexico, August 7-9, 2012, Proceedings Locality in Continuous Fitness-Valued Cases and Genetic Programming Difficulty [Link]
    2012 Ahmed Kattan and Edgar Galván López (2012) Proceedings of the IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, CEC 2012, Brisbane, Australia, June 10-15, 2012 Evolving radial basis function networks via GP for estimating fitness values using surrogate models [Link] [Full-Text]
    2011 Leonardo Trujillo and Yuliana Martinez and Edgar Galván López and Pierrick Legrand (2011) 13th Annual Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, GECCO 2011, Proceedings, Dublin, Ireland, July 12-16, 2011 Predicting problem difficulty for genetic programming applied to data classification [Link] [Full-Text]
    2010 James McDermott and Edgar Galván López and Michael O'Neill (2010) Parallel Problem Solving from Nature - PPSN XI, 11th International Conference, Krak\'ow, Poland, September 11-15, 2010, Proceedings, Part I A Fine-Grained View of GP Locality with Binary Decision Diagrams as Ant Phenotypes [Link] [Full-Text]
    2010 Eoin Murphy and Michael O'Neill and Edgar Galván López and Anthony Brabazon (2010) Proceedings of the IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, CEC 2010, Barcelona, Spain, 18-23 July 2010 Tree-adjunct grammatical evolution [Link]
    2010 Edgar Galván López and James McDermott and Michael O'Neill and Anthony Brabazon (2010) Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, GECCO 2010, Proceedings, Portland, Oregon, USA, July 7-11, 2010 Towards an understanding of locality in genetic programming [Link] [Full-Text]
    2010 Edgar Galván López and John Mark Swafford and Michael O'Neill and Anthony Brabazon (2010) Applications of Evolutionary Computation, EvoApplicatons 2010: EvoCOMPLEX, EvoGAMES, EvoIASP, EvoINTELLIGENCE, EvoNUM, and EvoSTOC, Istanbul, Turkey, April 7-9, 2010, Proceedings, Part I Evolving a Ms. PacMan Controller Using Grammatical Evolution [Link] [Full-Text]
    2010 Ahmed Kattan and Edgar Galván López and Riccardo Poli and Michael O'Neill (2010) Genetic Programming, 13th European Conference, EuroGP 2010, Istanbul, Turkey, April 7-9, 2010. Proceedings GP-Fileprints: File Types Detection Using Genetic Programming [Link] [Full-Text]
    2010 Jonathan Byrne and James McDermott and Edgar Galván López and Michael O'Neill (2010) Proceedings of the IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, CEC 2010, Barcelona, Spain, 18-23 July 2010 Implementing an intuitive mutation operator for interactive evolutionary 3D design [Link] [Full-Text]
    2010 David Fagan and Miguel Nicolau and Michael O'Neill and Edgar Galván López and Anthony Brabazon and Seán McGarraghy (2010) Proceedings of the IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, CEC 2010, Barcelona, Spain, 18-23 July 2010 Investigating mapping order in piGE [Link] [Full-Text]
    2010 Edgar Galván López and David Fagan and Eoin Murphy and John Mark Swafford and Alexandros Agapitos and Michael O'Neill and Anthony Brabazon (2010) Proceedings of the IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, CEC 2010, Barcelona, Spain, 18-23 July 2010 Comparing the performance of the evolvable piGrammatical Evolution genotype-phenotype map to Grammatical Evolution in the dynamic Ms. Pac-Man environment [Link] [Full-Text]
    2010 Edgar Galván López and James McDermott and Michael O'Neill and Anthony Brabazon (2010) Proceedings of the IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, CEC 2010, Barcelona, Spain, 18-23 July 2010 Defining locality in genetic programming to predict performance [Link] [Full-Text]
    2010 David Fagan and Michael O'Neill and Edgar Galván López and Anthony Brabazon and Se\'an McGarraghy (2010) Genetic Programming, 13th European Conference, EuroGP 2010, Istanbul, Turkey, April 7-9, 2010. Proceedings An Analysis of Genotype-Phenotype Maps in Grammatical Evolution [Link] [Full-Text]
    2009 Uy, Nguyen Quang and Hoai, Nguyen Xuan and O'Neill, Michael and McKay, Bob and Galván-López, Edgar (2009) Computational Intelligence and Intelligent Systems . In: Cai, Zhihua and Li, Zhenhua and Kang, Zhuo and Liu, Yong eds. An Analysis of Semantic Aware Crossover Berlin, Heidelberg, [Full-Text]
    2009 Edgar Galván López and Riccardo Poli (2009) MICAI 2009: Advances in Artificial Intelligence, 8th Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Guanajuato, Mexico, November 9-13, 2009. Proceedings An Empirical Investigation of How Degree Neutrality Affects GP Search [Link] [Full-Text]
    2009 Nguyen Quang Uy and Michael O'Neill and Nguyen Xuan Hoai and Bob McKay and Edgar Galván López (2009) Artifical Evolution, 9th International Conference, Evolution Artificielle, EA, 2009, Strasbourg, France, October 26-28, 2009. Revised Selected Papers Semantic Similarity Based Crossover in GP: The Case for Real-Valued Function Regression [Link] [Full-Text]
    2009 Edgar Galván López and Michael O'Neill (2009) Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Games, CIG 2009, Milano, Italy, 7-10 September, 2009 On the effects of locality in a permutation problem: The Sudoku Puzzle [Link]
    2008 Edgar Galván López and Stephen Dignum and Riccardo Poli (2008) Genetic Programming, 11th European Conference, EuroGP 2008, Naples, Italy, March 26-28, 2008. Proceedings The Effects of Constant Neutrality on Performance and Problem Hardness in GP [Link] [Full-Text]
    2007 Edgar Galván López and Katya Rodríguez-Vázquez (2007) Genetic Programming, 10th European Conference, EuroGP 2007, Valencia, Spain, April 11-13, 2007, Proceedings Multiple Interactive Outputs in a Single Tree: An Empirical Investigation [Link] [Full-Text]
    2007 Riccardo Poli and Edgar Galván López (2007) Foundations of Genetic Algorithms, 9th International Workshop, FOGA 2007, Mexico City, Mexico, January 8-11, 2007, Revised Selected Papers On the Effects of Bit-Wise Neutrality on Fitness Distance Correlation, Phenotypic Mutation Rates and Problem Hardness [Link] [Full-Text]
    2007 Edgar Galván-López (2007) EvoPhD - Second European Graduate Student Workshop on Evolutionary Computation Effects of Neutrality in Evolutionary Search
    2006 Edgar Galván López and Riccardo Poli (2006) Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, GECCO 2006, Proceedings, Seattle, Washington, USA, July 8-12, 2006 An empirical investigation of how and why neutrality affects evolutionary search [Link]
    2006 Edgar Galván López and Riccardo Poli (2006) Parallel Problem Solving from Nature - PPSN IX, 9th International Conference, Reykjavik, Iceland, September 9-13, 2006, Procedings Some Steps Towards Understanding How Neutrality Affects Evolutionary Search [Link] [Full-Text]
    2006 Edgar Galván López and Katya Rodríguez-Vázquez (2006) Parallel Problem Solving from Nature - PPSN IX, 9th International Conference, Reykjavik, Iceland, September 9-13, 2006, Procedings The Importance of Neutral Mutations in GP [Link] [Full-Text]
    2004 Edgar Galván López and Riccardo Poli and Carlos A. Coello Coello (2004) Genetic Programming, 7th European Conference, EuroGP2004, Coimbra, Portugal, April 5-7, 2004, Proceedings Reusing Code in Genetic Programming [Link] [Full-Text]

    Book Chapter

    Year Publication
    2015 Edgar Galván López, Marc Schoenauer, Constantinos Patsakis, and Leonardo Trujillo (2015) 'Demand- side management: Optimising through differential evolution plug-in electric vehicles to partially fulfil load demand' In: Studies in Computational Intelligence. London : Springer.
    2012 Edgar Galván López, Leonardo Trujillo, James McDermott, and Ahmed Kattan (2012) 'Locality in con- tinuous fitness-valued cases and genetic programming difficulty' In: EVOLVE - A Bridge between Probability, Set Oriented Numerics, and Evolution- ary Computation II. London : Springer.
    2011 James McDermott, Edgar Galván-López and Michael O'Neill (2011) 'A Fine-Grained View of Phenotypes and Locality in Genetic Programming' In: Genetic Programming Theory and Practice IX. New York : Springer.
    2008 Alma Lilia García-Almanza, Edward K. Tsang, and Edgar Galván-López (2008) 'Evolving Decision Rules to Discover Patterns in Financial Data Sets' In: Computational Methods in Financial Engineering: Essays in Honour of Manfred Gilli. Berlin Heidelberg : Springer.

    Conference Contribution

    Year Publication
    2012 Leonardo Trujillo and Yuliana Martinez and Edgar Galván-López and Pierrick Legrand (2012) ERA A comparison of predictive measures of problem difficulty for classification with genetic programming Tijuana Mexico, .
    2009 Edgar Galván-Lópe, Michael O'Neill and Anthony Brabazon (2009) Eighth Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, MICAI 2009 Towards Understanding the Effects of Locality in gp Guanajuato, Mexico, .

    Published abstracts

    Year Publication
    2017 Edgar Galván-López, Lucia Vázquez-Mendoza, Marc Schoenauer and Leonardo Trujillo (2017) Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference Companion. PUBA
    2012 Leonardo Trujillo and Yuliana Martinez and Edgar Galván López and Pierrick Legrand (2012) Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, GECCO '12, Philadelphia, PA, USA, July 7-11, 2012, Companion Material Proceedings. PUBA [Link]
    2007 Edgar Galván López and Julian Togelius and Simon M. Lucas (2007) Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, GECCO 2007, Proceedings, London, England, UK, July 7-11, 2007. PUBA [Link]

    Thesis

    Year Publication
    2009 Edgar Galván López (2009) An analysis of the effects of neutrality on problem hardness for evolutionary algorithms. THES
    2001 Edgar Galván López (2001) Design of Combinatorial Logic Circuits Using Genetic Programming. THES

    Workshops

    Year Publication
    2015 Brendan Cody-Kenny and Edgar Galván López and Stephen Barrett (2015) Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, GECCO 2015, Madrid, Spain, July 11-15, 2015, Companion Material Proceedings. WKSHOP [Link]
    2013 Adam Taylor and Ivana Dusparic and Edgar Galván-López and Siobhan Clarke and Vinny Cahill (2013) Workshop on Theoretically Grounded Transfer Learn- ing at the 30th International Conf. on Machine Learning. WKSHOP
    2012 Adam Taylor and E. Galván-López and Siobhan Clarke and Vinny Cahill (2012) The Third International Workshop on Agent Technologies for Energy Systems at Eleventh International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS). WKSHOP
    2011 Javier Asensio and Edgar Galván-López and Ramaswamy Palaniappan and John Gan (2011) The 5th International Workshop on Brain-Computer Interfaces. WKSHOP
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    Honors and Awards

    Date Title Awarding Body
    01/01/2020 Ranked as one of the all-time top 1% researchers in Genetic Programming University College London
    01/01/2020 Senior Scientific Adviser National Council for Science and Technology, Mexico
    01/01/2020 Scientific Adviser Irish Research Council
    01/01/2017 Scientific Adviser Research Funding Agency of the French Government
    01/01/2015 Elected member of National Research System, Mexico, Category 1 National Council for Science and Technology, Mexico
    01/01/2015 Best Paper Award 7th International Conference on Evolutionary Computation Theory and Applications (ECTA)
    01/01/2014 Marie Curie / ELEVATE Fellowship Irish Research Council and the European Commission Marie Curie Actions via the FP7 COFUND Programme
    01/01/2006 Nominated for Best Paper in Genetic Algorithms Track Proceedings of the 8th Annual Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation (A* Conference)

    Committees

    Committee Function From / To
    Departmental Research Student Progress Committee Department Representative 10/10/2019 -
    International Education Committee Faculty of Science and Engineering Representative 11/10/2019 -
    Final Year Project Coordinator and Committee Member 03/09/2018 -
    IEEE International Energy Conference (ENERGYCon) Programme Committee Member 01/01/2014 -
    IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation Programme Committee Member 10/01/2013 -
    Springer EVOLVE Programme Committee Member 02/10/2012 -
    Springer European Event on Bio-Inspired Algorithms in Games (Evo*) Programme Committee Member 01/10/2011 -
    Springer Artificial Evolution AE Programme Committee Member 10/01/2011 -
    ACM Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference Chair, Programme Committee Member 02/02/2010 -
    IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence and Games Programme Committee Member 01/02/2010 -

    Education

    Start date Institution Qualification Subject
    Maynooth University Postgraduate Certificate Higher Education Teaching, Learning and Assessment
    University of Essex PhD Computer Science
    University of Veracruz MSc (Hons) Artificial Intelligence (by Research)
    University of Veracruz BSc (Hons) Computer Science

    Languages

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    French Functional Basic Basic
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