This PhD is a collaborative project between the University of Pretoria,
South Africa and Queen Mary University London, United Kingdom. The
candidate must be registered and based at the University of Pretoria in
South Africa with the PhD commencing early 2023.
Many algorithms are still written by hand. This can be tiresome, costly,
and humans can be biases when designing algorithms, or have not fully
understood details of the problem that is being tackled. A new alternative
to manually built algorithms, is the automatic design of algorithms using
approaches such as search based techniques.
The PhD research will focus on developing new approaches and investigating
the automated design of algorithms. Application domains of the automatic
design of algorithms are as diverse as the application domains of
algorithms themselves. However, we particularly target NP hard problems,
where no known efficient (i.e. polynomial time) algorithms are known. Past
application domains have included combinatorial optimization problems,
function optimization, machine learning algorithms, and branches of
artificial intelligence. The candidate is largely free to choose a domain
which suits and motivates them, and we welcome suggestions.
Scholarship details:
· The applicant must be a citizen of a commonwealth country.
· Applicants must have completed the degree that will give them
admission to a doctoral programme no more than two years prior to their
application for the University of Pretoria Commonwealth Doctoral
Scholarship.
· Applicants must not be older than 35 years of age at the time of
application.
· The value of the Doctoral Scholarship will be R170 000 p.a. for
three years.
· Awardee to complete the Doctoral studies within the minimum
required period of three academic years.
Please find the detailed call attached. If you are interested in applying,
please send an E-mail indicating this to nelishia.pillay@up.ac.za and
j.woodward@qmul.ac.uk by *15 August 2022*.
Nelishia Pillay is a Professor at the University of Pretoria, South Africa.
She holds the Multichoice Joint-Chair in Machine Learning and SARChI Chair
in Artificial Intelligence for Sustainable Development. She is chair of the
IEEE Task Force on Automated Algorithm Design, Configuration and
Selection and co-author of the book "Automated Design of Machine Learning
and Search Algorithms". Her research areas include automated design of
machine learning and search techniques, hyper-heuristics, genetic
programming and machine learning for sustainable development.
QMUL team: Dr. John R. Woodward (PI) heads The Operational Research group
Research group http://or.qmul.ac.uk/). His research interesting include
optimization, machine learning, operational research and artificial
intelligence.
Professional webpage http://www.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/~jwoodward/,
google scholar page
https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=iZIjJ80AAAAJ&hl=en
thank you
@John Woodward <john.r.woodward@gmail.com>
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