Dr Edgar Galvan

    Computer Science, Hamilton Institute

    Lecturer

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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. 

    Books

      Year Publication
    2021 Essentials of Software Testing.
    Bierig, R., Brown, S., Galván, E., & Timoney, J (2021) Essentials of Software Testing. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [DOI] [Details]

    Peer Reviewed Journals

      Year Publication
    2022 'Semantics in Multi-objective Genetic Programming'
    Edgar Galván and Leonardo Trujillo and Fergal Stapleton (2022) 'Semantics in Multi-objective Genetic Programming'. Applied Soft Computing Journal, 115 [DOI] [Details]
    2021 'Statistical Tree-based Population Seeding for Rolling Horizon EAs in General Video Game Playing'
    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, [Details]
    2021 'Agents in a privacy-preserving world'
    Edgar Galv\'an and Joaqu\'\in Garc\'\ia-Alfaro and Guillermo Navarro-Arribas and Vicen\cc Torra (2021) 'Agents in a privacy-preserving world'. Trans. Data Priv, 14 (1):53-63 [Details]
    2021 'Neuroevolution in Deep Neural Networks: Current Trends and Future Challenges'
    Edgar Galv\'an and Peter Mooney (2021) 'Neuroevolution in Deep Neural Networks: Current Trends and Future Challenges'. IEEE Trans. Artif. Intell, 2 (6):476-493 [DOI] [Details]
    2020 'Evolutionary Multi-Objective Energy Production Optimization: An Empirical Comparison'
    Vargas-Hakim, GA;Mezura-Montes, E;Galvan, E (2020) 'Evolutionary Multi-Objective Energy Production Optimization: An Empirical Comparison'. Mathematical and Computational Applications, 25 [DOI] [Details]
    2020 'On the analysis of hyper-parameter space for a genetic programming system with iterated F-Race'
    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, [DOI] [Details]
    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)'
    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] [Details]
    2016 'Prediction of expected performance for a genetic programming classifier'
    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 [DOI] [full-text] [Details]
    2016 'neat Genetic Programming: Controlling bloat naturally'
    Leonardo Trujillo and Luis Muñoz and Edgar Galván López and Sara Silva (2016) 'neat Genetic Programming: Controlling bloat naturally'. Information Sciences, 333 :21-43 [DOI] [full-text] [Details]
    2015 'Design of an autonomous intelligent Demand-Side Management system using stochastic optimisation evolutionary algorithms'
    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 [DOI] [full-text] [Details]
    2014 'Distributing privacy policies over multimedia content across multiple online social networks'
    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 [DOI] [full-text] [Details]
    2012 'The Effects of Constant and Bit-Wise Neutrality on Problem Hardness, Fitness Distance Correlation and Phenotypic Mutation Rates'
    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 [DOI] [full-text] [Details]
    2011 'Defining locality as a problem difficulty measure in genetic programming'
    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 [DOI] [full-text] [Details]
    2011 'Semantically-based crossover in genetic programming: application to real-valued symbolic regression'
    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 [DOI] [full-text] [Details]
    2011 'Neutrality in evolutionary algorithms... What do we know?'
    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 [DOI] [full-text] [Details]
    2008 'Efficient graph-based genetic programming representation with multiple outputs'
    Galvan-Lopez, Edgar (2008) 'Efficient graph-based genetic programming representation with multiple outputs'. International Journal of Automation and Computing, 5 (1):81-89 [DOI] [full-text] [Details]

    Conference Publications

      Year Publication
    2021 Semantic Neighborhood Ordering in Multi-objective Genetic Programming based on Decomposition
    Fergal Stapleton and Edgar Galv\'an (2021) Semantic Neighborhood Ordering in Multi-objective Genetic Programming based on Decomposition IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, CEC 2021, Krak\'ow, Poland, June 28 - July 1, 2021 , pp.580-587 [Details]
    2021 On the Evolution of the MCTS Upper Confidence Bounds for Trees by Means of Evolutionary Algorithms in the Game of Carcassonne
    Edgar Galv\'an and Gavin Simpson (2021) On the Evolution of the MCTS Upper Confidence Bounds for Trees by Means of Evolutionary Algorithms in the Game of Carcassonne 2021 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence, SSCI 2021, Orlando, Florida, USA, December 5-7, 2021 [Details]
    2021 What has machine learning ever done for us?
    Peter Mooney and Edgar Galv\'an (2021) What has machine learning ever done for us? . In: Minghini, M. ; Ludwig, C. ; Anderson, J. ; Mooney, P. ; Grinberger, A.Y eds. Proceedings of the Academic Track, State of the Map 2021 , pp.9-12 [Details]
    2021 Particle swarm optimisation without panopticon to evaluate private social choice
    Vicenc Torra and Edgar Galv\'an (2021) Particle swarm optimisation without panopticon to evaluate private social choice The 8th International Conference on Metaheuristics and Nature Inspired Computing META , pp.139-148 [Details]
    2020 Semantic-based Distance Approaches inMulti-objective Genetic Programming
    Edgar Galván and Fergal Stapleton (2020) Semantic-based Distance Approaches inMulti-objective Genetic Programming Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence [Details]
    2020 Playing Carcassonne with Monte Carlo Tree Search
    Fred Valdez Ameneyro and Edgar Galván and Angel Fernando Kuri Morales (2020) Playing Carcassonne with Monte Carlo Tree Search Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence [Details]
    2020 Explaining Recurrent Machine Learning Models: Integral Privacy Revisited
    Torra, Vicenc and Navarro-Arribas, Guillermo and Galván, Edgar (2020) Explaining Recurrent Machine Learning Models: Integral Privacy Revisited . In: Domingo-Ferrer, Josep and Muralidhar, Krishnamurty eds. Privacy in Statistical Databases Cham, , pp.62-73 [DOI] [Details]
    2019 Promoting semantic diversity in multi-objective genetic programming
    Edgar Galván and Marc Schoenauer (2019) Promoting semantic diversity in multi-objective genetic programming Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, GECCO 2019, Prague, Czech Republic, July 13-17, 2019 , pp.1021-1029 [full-text] [Details]
    2017 On the Use of Dynamic GP Fitness Cases in Static and Dynamic Optimisation Problems
    Edgar Galván López and Lucia Vázquez-Mendoza and Marc Schoenauer and Leonardo Trujillo (2017) On the Use of Dynamic GP Fitness Cases in Static and Dynamic Optimisation Problems Artificial Evolution - 13th International Conference, Evolution Artificielle, EA 2017, Paris, France, October 25-27, 2017, Revised Selected Papers , pp.72-87 [Details]
    2016 Stochastic Semantic-Based Multi-objective Genetic Programming Optimisation for Classification of Imbalanced Data
    Edgar Galván López and Lucia Vázquez-Mendoza and Leonardo Trujillo (2016) Stochastic Semantic-Based Multi-objective Genetic Programming Optimisation for Classification of Imbalanced Data Advances in Soft Computing - 15th Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, MICAI 2016, Canc\'un, Mexico, October 23-28, 2016, Proceedings, Part II , pp.261-272 [full-text] [Details]
    2016 Using fitness comparison disagreements as a metric for promoting diversity in Dynamic Optimisation Problems
    Edgar Galván López and Ouassim Ait ElHara (2016) Using fitness comparison disagreements as a metric for promoting diversity in Dynamic Optimisation Problems 2016 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence, SSCI 2016, Athens, Greece, December 6-9, 2016 , pp.1-8 [full-text] [Details]
    2016 On the Use of Semantics in Multi-objective Genetic Programming
    Edgar Galván López and Efrén Mezura-Montes and Ouassim Ait ElHara and Marc Schoenauer (2016) On the Use of Semantics in Multi-objective Genetic Programming Parallel Problem Solving from Nature - PPSN XIV - 14th International Conference, Edinburgh, UK, September 17-21, 2016, Proceedings , pp.353-363 [full-text] [Details]
    2015 Demand-Side Management: Optimising Through Differential Evolution Plug-in Electric Vehicles to Partially Fulfil Load Demand
    Edgar Galván López and Marc Schoenauer and Constantinos Patsakis and Leonardo Trujillo (2015) Demand-Side Management: Optimising Through Differential Evolution Plug-in Electric Vehicles to Partially Fulfil Load Demand Computational Intelligence - International Joint Conference, IJCCI 2015 Lisbon, Portugal, November 12-14, 2015, Revised Selected Papers , pp.155-174 [Details]
    2015 Design of an Autonomous Intelligent Demand-Side Management System by using Electric Vehicles as Mobile Energy Storage Units by Means of Evolutionary Algorithms
    Edgar Galván López and Marc Schoenauer and Constantinos Patsakis (2015) Design of an Autonomous Intelligent Demand-Side Management System by using Electric Vehicles as Mobile Energy Storage Units by Means of Evolutionary Algorithms Proceedings of the 7th International Joint Conference on Computational Intelligence (IJCCI 2015) - Volume 1: ECTA, Lisbon, Portugal, November 12-14, 2015 , pp.106-115 [Details]
    2014 Heuristic-Based Multi-Agent Monte Carlo Tree Search
    Edgar Galván López and Ruohua Li and Constantinos Patsakis and Siobhan Clarke and Vinny Cahill (2014) Heuristic-Based Multi-Agent Monte Carlo Tree Search 5th International Conference on Information, Intelligence, Systems and Applications, IISA 2014, Chania, Crete, Greece, July 7-9, 2014 , pp.177-182 [full-text] [Details]
    2014 Accelerating Learning in multi-objective systems through Transfer Learning
    Adam Taylor and Ivana Dusparic and Edgar Galván López and Siobhan Clarke and Vinny Cahill (2014) Accelerating Learning in multi-objective systems through Transfer Learning 2014 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, IJCNN 2014, Beijing, China, July 6-11, 2014 , pp.2298-2305 [full-text] [Details]
    2014 Set point control for charging of electric vehicles on the distribution network
    Colin Harris and Ivana Dusparic and Edgar Galván López and Andrei Marinescu and Vinny Cahill and Siobhan Clarke (2014) Set point control for charging of electric vehicles on the distribution network IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Conference, ISGT 2014, Washington, DC, USA, February 19-22, 2014 , pp.1-5 [full-text] [Details]
    2014 Design of an automatic demand-side management system based on evolutionary algorithms
    Edgar Galván López and Adam Taylor and Siobhan Clarke and Vinny Cahill (2014) Design of an automatic demand-side management system based on evolutionary algorithms Symposium on Applied Computing, SAC 2014, Gyeongju, Republic of Korea - March 24 - 28, 2014 , pp.525-530 [full-text] [Details]
    2014 Autonomous Demand-Side Management system based on Monte Carlo Tree Search
    E. Galván-López and C. Harris and L. Trujillo and K. Rodriguez-Vazquez and S. Clarke and V. Cahill (2014) Autonomous Demand-Side Management system based on Monte Carlo Tree Search 2014 IEEE International Energy Conference (ENERGYCON) , pp.1263-1270 [full-text] [Details]
    2014 Self-organising algorithms for residential demand response
    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) Self-organising algorithms for residential demand response 2014 IEEE Conference on Technologies for Sustainability (SusTech) , pp.55-60 [full-text] [Details]
    2013 Using semantics in the selection mechanism in Genetic Programming: A simple method for promoting semantic diversity
    Edgar Galván López and Brendan Cody-Kenny and Leonardo Trujillo and Ahmed Kattan (2013) Using semantics in the selection mechanism in Genetic Programming: A simple method for promoting semantic diversity Proceedings of the IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, CEC 2013, Cancun, Mexico, June 20-23, 2013 , pp.2972-2979 [full-text] [Details]
    2013 Multi-agent multi-issue negotiations with incomplete information: A Genetic Algorithm based on discrete surrogate approach
    Ahmed Kattan and Yew-Soon Ong and Edgar Galván López (2013) Multi-agent multi-issue negotiations with incomplete information: A Genetic Algorithm based on discrete surrogate approach Proceedings of the IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, CEC 2013, Cancun, Mexico, June 20-23, 2013 , pp.2556-2563 [full-text] [Details]
    2013 Searching for novel regression functions
    Yuliana Martínez and Enrique Naredo and Leonardo Trujillo and Edgar Galván López (2013) Searching for novel regression functions Proceedings of the IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, CEC 2013, Cancun, Mexico, June 20-23, 2013 , pp.16-23 [full-text] [Details]
    2012 Reducing electricity costs in a dynamic pricing environment
    Edgar Galván and Colin Harris and Ivana Dusparic and Siobhan Clarke and Vinny Cahill (2012) Reducing electricity costs in a dynamic pricing environment IEEE Third International Conference on Smart Grid Communications, SmartGridComm 2012, Tainan, Taiwan, November 5-8, 2012 , pp.169-174 [full-text] [Details]
    2012 Locality in Continuous Fitness-Valued Cases and Genetic Programming Difficulty
    Edgar Galván López and Leonardo Trujillo and James McDermott and Ahmed Kattan (2012) Locality in Continuous Fitness-Valued Cases and Genetic Programming Difficulty EVOLVE - A Bridge between Probability, Set Oriented Numerics, and Evolutionary Computation II, EVOLVE 2012, Mexico City, Mexico, August 7-9, 2012, Proceedings , pp.41-56 [Details]
    2012 Evolving radial basis function networks via GP for estimating fitness values using surrogate models
    Ahmed Kattan and Edgar Galván López (2012) Evolving radial basis function networks via GP for estimating fitness values using surrogate models Proceedings of the IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, CEC 2012, Brisbane, Australia, June 10-15, 2012 , pp.1-7 [full-text] [Details]
    2011 Predicting problem difficulty for genetic programming applied to data classification
    Leonardo Trujillo and Yuliana Martinez and Edgar Galván López and Pierrick Legrand (2011) Predicting problem difficulty for genetic programming applied to data classification 13th Annual Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, GECCO 2011, Proceedings, Dublin, Ireland, July 12-16, 2011 , pp.1355-1362 [full-text] [Details]
    2010 A Fine-Grained View of GP Locality with Binary Decision Diagrams as Ant Phenotypes
    James McDermott and Edgar Galván López and Michael O'Neill (2010) A Fine-Grained View of GP Locality with Binary Decision Diagrams as Ant Phenotypes Parallel Problem Solving from Nature - PPSN XI, 11th International Conference, Krak\'ow, Poland, September 11-15, 2010, Proceedings, Part I , pp.164-173 [full-text] [Details]
    2010 Tree-adjunct grammatical evolution
    Eoin Murphy and Michael O'Neill and Edgar Galván López and Anthony Brabazon (2010) Tree-adjunct grammatical evolution Proceedings of the IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, CEC 2010, Barcelona, Spain, 18-23 July 2010 , pp.1-8 [Details]
    2010 Towards an understanding of locality in genetic programming
    Edgar Galván López and James McDermott and Michael O'Neill and Anthony Brabazon (2010) Towards an understanding of locality in genetic programming Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, GECCO 2010, Proceedings, Portland, Oregon, USA, July 7-11, 2010 , pp.901-908 [full-text] [Details]
    2010 Evolving a Ms. PacMan Controller Using Grammatical Evolution
    Edgar Galván López and John Mark Swafford and Michael O'Neill and Anthony Brabazon (2010) Evolving a Ms. PacMan Controller Using Grammatical Evolution Applications of Evolutionary Computation, EvoApplicatons 2010: EvoCOMPLEX, EvoGAMES, EvoIASP, EvoINTELLIGENCE, EvoNUM, and EvoSTOC, Istanbul, Turkey, April 7-9, 2010, Proceedings, Part I , pp.161-170 [full-text] [Details]
    2010 GP-Fileprints: File Types Detection Using Genetic Programming
    Ahmed Kattan and Edgar Galván López and Riccardo Poli and Michael O'Neill (2010) GP-Fileprints: File Types Detection Using Genetic Programming Genetic Programming, 13th European Conference, EuroGP 2010, Istanbul, Turkey, April 7-9, 2010. Proceedings , pp.134-145 [full-text] [Details]
    2010 Implementing an intuitive mutation operator for interactive evolutionary 3D design
    Jonathan Byrne and James McDermott and Edgar Galván López and Michael O'Neill (2010) Implementing an intuitive mutation operator for interactive evolutionary 3D design Proceedings of the IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, CEC 2010, Barcelona, Spain, 18-23 July 2010 , pp.1-7 [full-text] [Details]
    2010 Investigating mapping order in piGE
    David Fagan and Miguel Nicolau and Michael O'Neill and Edgar Galván López and Anthony Brabazon and Seán McGarraghy (2010) Investigating mapping order in piGE Proceedings of the IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, CEC 2010, Barcelona, Spain, 18-23 July 2010 , pp.1-7 [full-text] [Details]
    2010 Comparing the performance of the evolvable piGrammatical Evolution genotype-phenotype map to Grammatical Evolution in the dynamic Ms. Pac-Man environment
    Edgar Galván López and David Fagan and Eoin Murphy and John Mark Swafford and Alexandros Agapitos and Michael O'Neill and Anthony Brabazon (2010) Comparing the performance of the evolvable piGrammatical Evolution genotype-phenotype map to Grammatical Evolution in the dynamic Ms. Pac-Man environment Proceedings of the IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, CEC 2010, Barcelona, Spain, 18-23 July 2010 , pp.1-8 [full-text] [Details]
    2010 Defining locality in genetic programming to predict performance
    Edgar Galván López and James McDermott and Michael O'Neill and Anthony Brabazon (2010) Defining locality in genetic programming to predict performance Proceedings of the IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, CEC 2010, Barcelona, Spain, 18-23 July 2010 , pp.1-8 [full-text] [Details]
    2010 An Analysis of Genotype-Phenotype Maps in Grammatical Evolution
    David Fagan and Michael O'Neill and Edgar Galván López and Anthony Brabazon and Se\'an McGarraghy (2010) An Analysis of Genotype-Phenotype Maps in Grammatical Evolution Genetic Programming, 13th European Conference, EuroGP 2010, Istanbul, Turkey, April 7-9, 2010. Proceedings , pp.62-73 [full-text] [Details]
    2009 An Analysis of Semantic Aware Crossover
    Uy, Nguyen Quang and Hoai, Nguyen Xuan and O'Neill, Michael and McKay, Bob and Galván-López, Edgar (2009) An Analysis of Semantic Aware Crossover . In: Cai, Zhihua and Li, Zhenhua and Kang, Zhuo and Liu, Yong eds. Computational Intelligence and Intelligent Systems Berlin, Heidelberg, , pp.56-65 [full-text] [Details]
    2009 An Empirical Investigation of How Degree Neutrality Affects GP Search
    Edgar Galván López and Riccardo Poli (2009) An Empirical Investigation of How Degree Neutrality Affects GP Search MICAI 2009: Advances in Artificial Intelligence, 8th Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Guanajuato, Mexico, November 9-13, 2009. Proceedings , pp.728-739 [full-text] [Details]
    2009 Semantic Similarity Based Crossover in GP: The Case for Real-Valued Function Regression
    Nguyen Quang Uy and Michael O'Neill and Nguyen Xuan Hoai and Bob McKay and Edgar Galván López (2009) Semantic Similarity Based Crossover in GP: The Case for Real-Valued Function Regression Artifical Evolution, 9th International Conference, Evolution Artificielle, EA, 2009, Strasbourg, France, October 26-28, 2009. Revised Selected Papers , pp.170-181 [full-text] [Details]
    2009 On the effects of locality in a permutation problem: The Sudoku Puzzle
    Edgar Galván López and Michael O'Neill (2009) On the effects of locality in a permutation problem: The Sudoku Puzzle Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Games, CIG 2009, Milano, Italy, 7-10 September, 2009 , pp.80-87 [Details]
    2008 The Effects of Constant Neutrality on Performance and Problem Hardness in GP
    Edgar Galván López and Stephen Dignum and Riccardo Poli (2008) The Effects of Constant Neutrality on Performance and Problem Hardness in GP Genetic Programming, 11th European Conference, EuroGP 2008, Naples, Italy, March 26-28, 2008. Proceedings , pp.312-324 [full-text] [Details]
    2007 Multiple Interactive Outputs in a Single Tree: An Empirical Investigation
    Edgar Galván López and Katya Rodríguez-Vázquez (2007) Multiple Interactive Outputs in a Single Tree: An Empirical Investigation Genetic Programming, 10th European Conference, EuroGP 2007, Valencia, Spain, April 11-13, 2007, Proceedings , pp.341-350 [full-text] [Details]
    2007 On the Effects of Bit-Wise Neutrality on Fitness Distance Correlation, Phenotypic Mutation Rates and Problem Hardness
    Riccardo Poli and Edgar Galván López (2007) On the Effects of Bit-Wise Neutrality on Fitness Distance Correlation, Phenotypic Mutation Rates and Problem Hardness Foundations of Genetic Algorithms, 9th International Workshop, FOGA 2007, Mexico City, Mexico, January 8-11, 2007, Revised Selected Papers , pp.138-164 [full-text] [Details]
    2007 Effects of Neutrality in Evolutionary Search
    Edgar Galván-López (2007) Effects of Neutrality in Evolutionary Search EvoPhD - Second European Graduate Student Workshop on Evolutionary Computation [Details]
    2006 An empirical investigation of how and why neutrality affects evolutionary search
    Edgar Galván López and Riccardo Poli (2006) An empirical investigation of how and why neutrality affects evolutionary search Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, GECCO 2006, Proceedings, Seattle, Washington, USA, July 8-12, 2006 , pp.1149-1156 [Details]
    2006 Some Steps Towards Understanding How Neutrality Affects Evolutionary Search
    Edgar Galván López and Riccardo Poli (2006) Some Steps Towards Understanding How Neutrality Affects Evolutionary Search Parallel Problem Solving from Nature - PPSN IX, 9th International Conference, Reykjavik, Iceland, September 9-13, 2006, Procedings , pp.778-787 [full-text] [Details]
    2006 The Importance of Neutral Mutations in GP
    Edgar Galván López and Katya Rodríguez-Vázquez (2006) The Importance of Neutral Mutations in GP Parallel Problem Solving from Nature - PPSN IX, 9th International Conference, Reykjavik, Iceland, September 9-13, 2006, Procedings , pp.870-879 [full-text] [Details]
    2004 Reusing Code in Genetic Programming
    Edgar Galván López and Riccardo Poli and Carlos A. Coello Coello (2004) Reusing Code in Genetic Programming Genetic Programming, 7th European Conference, EuroGP2004, Coimbra, Portugal, April 5-7, 2004, Proceedings , pp.359-368 [full-text] [Details]

    Book Chapters

      Year Publication
    2015 'Demand- side management: Optimising through differential evolution plug-in electric vehicles to partially fulfil load demand'
    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: Juan Julian Merelo Guervos, Agostinho C. Rosa, José Manuel Cadenas, Antonio Dourado Correia, Kurosh Madani, Antonio E. Ruano, and Joaquim Filipe (eds). Studies in Computational Intelligence. London: Springer. [Details]
    2012 'Locality in con- tinuous fitness-valued cases and genetic programming difficulty'
    Edgar Galván López, Leonardo Trujillo, James McDermott, and Ahmed Kattan (2012) 'Locality in con- tinuous fitness-valued cases and genetic programming difficulty' In: Oliver Schu ̈tze, Carlos A. Coello Coello, Alexandru-Adrian Tantar, Emilia Tantar, Pascal Bouvry, Pierre Del Moral, and Pierrick Legrand (eds). EVOLVE - A Bridge between Probability, Set Oriented Numerics, and Evolution- ary Computation II. London: Springer. [Details]
    2011 'A Fine-Grained View of Phenotypes and Locality in Genetic Programming'
    James McDermott, Edgar Galván-López and Michael O'Neill (2011) 'A Fine-Grained View of Phenotypes and Locality in Genetic Programming' In: R. Riolo, E. Vladislavleva and J. Moore (eds). Genetic Programming Theory and Practice IX. New York: Springer. [Details]
    2008 'Evolving Decision Rules to Discover Patterns in Financial Data Sets'
    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. [Details]

    Conference Contributions

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

    Published abstracts

      Year Publication
    2017 Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference Companion.
    Edgar Galván-López, Lucia Vázquez-Mendoza, Marc Schoenauer and Leonardo Trujillo (2017) Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference Companion. Published abstracts [Details]
    2012 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, GECCO '12, Philadelphia, PA, USA, July 7-11, 2012, Companion Material Proceedings.
    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. Published abstracts [Details]
    2007 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, GECCO 2007, Proceedings, London, England, UK, July 7-11, 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. Published abstracts [Details]

    Thesis

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

    Workshops

      Year Publication
    2015 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, GECCO 2015, Madrid, Spain, July 11-15, 2015, Companion Material Proceedings.
    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. Workshops [Details]
    2013 Workshop on Theoretically Grounded Transfer Learn- ing at the 30th International Conf. on Machine Learning.
    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. Workshops [Details]
    2012 The Third International Workshop on Agent Technologies for Energy Systems at Eleventh International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS).
    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). Workshops [Details]
    2011 The 5th International Workshop on Brain-Computer Interfaces.
    Javier Asensio and Edgar Galván-López and Ramaswamy Palaniappan and John Gan (2011) The 5th International Workshop on Brain-Computer Interfaces. Workshops [Details]

    Honours and Awards

      Year Title Awarding Body
    2020 Ranked as one of the all-time top 1% researchers in Genetic Programming University College London
    2020 Senior Scientific Adviser National Council for Science and Technology, Mexico
    2020 Scientific Adviser Irish Research Council
    2017 Scientific Adviser Research Funding Agency of the French Government
    2015 Elected member of National Research System, Mexico, Category 1 National Council for Science and Technology, Mexico
    2015 Best Paper Award 7th International Conference on Evolutionary Computation Theory and Applications (ECTA)
    2014 Marie Curie / ELEVATE Fellowship Irish Research Council and the European Commission Marie Curie Actions via the FP7 COFUND Programme
    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 2019 /
    International Education Committee Faculty of Science and Engineering Representative 2019 /
    Final Year Project Coordinator and Committee Member 2018 /
    IEEE International Energy Conference (ENERGYCon) Programme Committee Member 2014 /
    IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation Programme Committee Member 2013 /
    Springer EVOLVE Programme Committee Member 2012 /
    Springer European Event on Bio-Inspired Algorithms in Games (Evo*) Programme Committee Member 2011 /
    Springer Artificial Evolution AE Programme Committee Member 2011 /
    ACM Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference Chair, Programme Committee Member 2010 /
    IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence and Games Programme Committee Member 2010 /

    Education

      Year Institution Qualification Subject
    2020 Maynooth University Postgraduate Certificate Higher Education Teaching, Learning and Assessment
    2009 University of Essex PhD Computer Science
    2001 University of Veracruz MSc (Hons) Artificial Intelligence (by Research)
    1999 University of Veracruz BSc (Hons) Computer Science

    Languages

      Language Reading Writing Speaking
    Spanish Fluent Fluent Fluent
    French Functional Basic Basic
    English Fluent Fluent Fluent

    Reviews

      Journal Role
    Ieee Transactions On Software Engineering Referee
    Ieee Transactions On Services Computing Referee
    Swarm And Evolutionary Computation Referee
    Renewable Energy Referee
    Ieee Access : Practical Innovations, Open Solutions Referee
    Neurocomputing Referee
    Genetic Programming And Evolvable Machines Referee
    Ieee Transactions On Cybernetics Referee
    Ieee Transactions On Evolutionary Computation Referee