Keynote Talk at ROPEC 2020
I gave a keynote lecture on Genetic Improvement of Software at the 2020 IEEE Autumn Meeting on Power, Electronics and Computing: link
ASE 2020 Tutorials
ASE 2020 Tutorials, which I'm co-organising, will be held virtually on the 21st and 25th of Septmeber this year. Registration is now open: link
ASE 2020 Distinguished PC Member
I was among the winners of the ASE 2020 Distinguished PC Member Award. link
SBSE Track at GECCO
Co-organised the SBSE track at the International Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO): link
GI Workshop at ICSE
Co-organised the eighth international workshop on Genetic Improvement, co-located with the International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2020): link
CREST Open Workshop on Automated Program Repair and Genetic Improvement
Organised the 62nd CREST Open Workshop - Automated Program Repair and Genetic Improvement: link
Winner of the Challenge Track at SSBSE
Our work on program repair and runtime improvement of software using the genetic improvement framework Gin won the Challenge Track at this year's SSBSE: link
SBSE Track at GECCO
Co-organised the SBSE track at the International Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO): link
GI Workshop & Demonstrations Track at ICSE
Facebook Testing and Verification research award
Received one of the Facebook Testing and Verification research awards for a research proposal on Automated Software Migration Using Genetic Improvement. link
GI Workshop at ICSE
Co-organised the fourth international workshop on Genetic Improvement, co-located with the International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2018): link
Dagstuhl Seminar on Genetic Improvement of Software
Co-organised the 2018 Dagstuhl Seminar on Genetic Improvement of Software: link
EPSRC Early Career Fellowship
Started a 5-year fellowship on automated software specialisation using genetic improvement, awarded in February 2017. link
Symposium on Search-Based Software Engineering
Co-chaired the ninth international Symposium on Search-Based Software Engineering (SSBSE 2017): link
GI Workshop at GECCO
Co-organised the third international workshop on Genetic Improvement, co-located with the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2017): link
SIGEVO Summer School
Served as a student mentor at the first SIGEVO Summer School co-located with GECCO 2017. link
Genetic Improvement of Software: a Comprehensive Survey
A survey on genetic improvement is now available online: link
SBST Workshop at ICSE
Co-organised the 10th International Workshop on Search-Based Software Testing, co-located with the International Conference on Software Engineering: link
Awarded an EPSRC Early Career Fellowship
Awarded an EPSRC Early Career Fellowship on automated software specialisation using genetic improvement: link
Special Issue on Genetic Improvement in GPEM Journal
Special Issue on Genetic Improvement is now published in Volume 18 of the Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines Journal. It is now available both online and in print. link
CREST Open Workshop on Genetic Improvement
Organised the 2nd CREST Open Workshop on Genetic Improvement: link
Dagstuhl Seminar
Presented at the Dagstuhl Seminar on Automated Program Repair.
SSBSE 2017
We are organising the 9th Symposium on Search-Based Software Engineering (SSBSE 2017). Please submit your work by March 31st. More details about the event can be found here: SSBSE 2017.
Gold 'Humie' Award
Our work on automated software transplantation won a Gold 'Humie' at the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2016): link
GI Workshop at GECCO
Co-organised the second international workshop on Genetic Improvement, co-located with the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2016): link
SBST Workshop at ICSE
Co-organised the 9th International Workshop on Search-Based Software Testing, co-located with the International Conference on Software Engineering: link
CREST Open Workshop on Genetic Improvement
Co-organised the CREST Open Workshop on Genetic Improvement: link
New Book
My first book entitled "Bridging Constraint Satisfaction and Boolean Satisfiability" is now available from Springer: link
Guest Editor Role
Selected as the guest editor for the Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines Journal (GPEM) Special Issue on Genetic Improvement. The call for papers is available here: link
Blog Post on Genetic Improvement
My blog post entitled "Revolutionising the process of software development" is now available on the Dynamic Adaptive Automated Software Engineering (DAASE) project website: link
Media Coverage of Autotransplantation Work
GI Workshop at GECCO
Co-organised the first international workshop on Genetic Improvement, co-located with the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2015): link
ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award
Our paper entitled "Automated Software Transplantation" won an ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award at the International Conference on Software Testing an Analysis (ISSTA 2015): link
Best Presentation Award
Won the Best Presentation Award at the International Workshop on Search Based Software Testing (SBST 2015): link
Silver 'Humie' Award
Our work on using genetic improvement and code transplants to specialise a C++ program to a problem class won a Silver 'Humie' at the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2014): link