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Edgar Galvan

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Research Interests:
General
Name and Title: 
Dr. Edgar Galvan BSc.,MSc,Ph.D.
Position: 
Post Doctoral Researcher
Research Group: 
Natural Computing Research and Applications Group
Phone: 
+35317165332
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Biography

 Dr. Galván is a Post-doctoral Researcher in the School of Computer Science & Informatics at University College Dublin since February 2009.  

Dr. Galván is a regular reviewer for the IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines, and the main conferences in the area of Evolutionary Computation (e.g., GECCO, CEC). Dr. Galvan has also been a regular reviewer of the most respected journals in the area of Games (e.g., IEEE Transactions on Computational Intelligence and AI Games).

Also, Dr. Galván has published over thirty peer reviewed conference/journal papers (see a list of my publications).

Dr. Galván has been awarded competitive fundings from the British and Irish Government to continue conducting research.

Professional

Reviewer of journal articles and papers for:

  • IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence and Games (IEEE Press)
  • Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines (Springer)
  • IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation (IEEE Press)
  • Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO) (ACM Press)

Other responsabilities:

  • Programme Committee Member for 3rd European Event on Bio-Inspired Algorithms in Games (Evo*) 2011 (Springer)
  • Programme Committee Member for Genetic Programming Track, GECCO 2011 (ACM Press)
  • Programme Committee Member for Genetic Programming Track, GECCO 2010 (ACM Press)
  • Co-organised the 3rd NCRA Workshop at University College Dublin, Ireland. (May 22, 2009)
  • Programme Committee Member for IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence and Games, CIG 2010 (IEEE Press)

Publications

 

Journal Articles 

  • Edgar Galvan-Lopez, Riccardo Poli, Ahmed Kattan, Michael O'Neill and Anthony Brabazon. Neutrality in Evolutionary Algorithms... What do we know?. Evolving Systems . (accepted).
  • Edgar Galvan-Lopez, James McDermott, Michael O’Neill and Anthony Brabazon. Defining Locality in Problem Hardness in Genetic Programming. Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines (accepted).
  • R. Poli and E. Galvan-Lopez. The Effects of Constant and Bit-Wise Neutrality on Problem Hardness, Fitness Distance Correlation and Phenotypic Mutation Rates. IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation.  (accepted).
  • Q. Uy, N. Haoi, M. O'Neill, B. McKay and E. Galvan-Lopez. Semantically-based Crossover in Genetic Programming:  Application to Real-valued Symbolic Regression. Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines (In Press)
  • E. Galvan-Lopez. Efficient Graph-Based Genetic Programming Representation with Multiple Outputs. International Journal of Automation and Computing, 5(1), pages 81-89. 2008.

  

PhD Thesis

  • E. Galvan-Lopez. An Analysis of the Effects of Neutrality on Problem Hardness for Evolutionary Algorithms. PhD thesis, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, University of Essex, United Kingdom, 2009

 

Book Chapters

  • A. L. García Almanza, E. Tsang, and E. Galvan-Lopez. Evolving Decision Rules to Discover Patterns in Financial Data Sets, in E. J. Kontoghiorghes, B. Rustem and P. Winker, editors. In Computational Statistics & Data Analysis, pages 239-255. Springer, Heidelberg, 2008.

 

Peer Reviewed International Conferences

  • J. McDermott, E. Galvan-Lopez and M. O'Neill. GP Locality with Binary Decision Diagrams as Ant Phenotypes, PPSN XI: Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving from Nature, Krakow, Poland, 11-15 September, 2010. Springer.
  • E. Galvan-Lopez, J. McDermott, M. O'Neill and A. Brabazon. Defining Locality in Genetic Programming to Predict Performance,  CEC 2010: Proceedings of the 12th Annual Congress on Evolutionary Computation, Barcelona, Spain, 18-23 July, 2010. IEEE Press.
  • E. Galvan-Lopez, D. Fagan, E. Murphy, J. Swafford, A. Agapitos, M. O'Neill and A. Brabazon. Comparing the Performance of the Evolvable PiGrammatical Evolution Genotype-Phenotype Map to Grammatical Evolution in the Dynamic Ms. Pac-Man Environment,  CEC 2010: Proceedings of the 12th Annual Congress on Evolutionary Computation, Barcelona, Spain, 18-23 July, 2010. IEEE Press.
  • E. Murphy, M. O'Neill, E. Galvan-Lopez and A. Brabazon. Tree-Adjunct Grammatical Evolution,  CEC 2010: Proceedings of the 12th Annual Congress on Evolutionary Computation, Barcelona, Spain, 18-23 July, 2010. IEEE Press.
  • J. Byrne, J. McDermott, E. Galvan-Lopez and M. O'Neill. Implementing an Intuitive Mutation Operator for Interactive Evolutionary 3D Design,  CEC 2010: Proceedings of the 12th Annual Congress on Evolutionary Computation, Barcelona, Spain, 18-23 July, 2010. IEEE Press.
  • D. Fagan, M. Nicolau, M. O'Neill, E. Galvan-Lopez and A. Brabazon. Investigating Mapping Order in piGE,  CEC 2010: Proceedings of the 12th Annual Congress on Evolutionary Computation, Barcelona, Spain, 18-23 July, 2010. IEEE Press.
  • E. Galvan-Lopez, J. McDermott, Michael O'Neill and A. Brabazon. Towards an Understanding of Locality in Genetic Programming,  GECCO 2010: Proceedings of the 12th Annual Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation, Portland, Oregon, USA, 7-11 July, 2010. ACM Press.
  • E. Galvan-Lopez, J.M. Swafford, M. O'Neill and A. Brabazon. Evolving a Ms. Pacman Controller using Grammatical Evolution, in C. Di Chio, A. Brabazon, G. Di Caro, M. Ebner, M. Faroog, A. Fink, J. Grahi, G. Greenfield, P. Machado, M. O'Neill, E. Tarantino and N. Urguhart, editors, Applications of Evolutionary Computation, EvoApplications 2010: EvoCOMPLEX, EvoGAMES, EvoIASP, EvoINTELLIGENCE, EvoNUM, and EvoSTOC, volume 6024 of LNCS, Part I, pages 161-170, Istanbul, Turkey 7-9 April, 2010. Springer
  • A. Kattan, E. Galvan-Lopez, R. Poli, M. O'Neill. GP-fileprints: File Types Detection using GP, in A. Esparcia-Alcazar, A. Ekart, S. Silva, S. Dignum and A. Sima Uyar, editors, EuroGP 2010 - 13th European Conference on Genetic Programming, volume 6021 of LNCS, pages 134-145, Istanbul, Turkey 7-9 April, 2010. Springer
  • D Fagan, M. O'Neill, E. Galvan-Lopez, A. Brabazon, S. McGarraghy. An Analysis of Genotype-Phenotype Maps in Grammatical Evolution, in A. Esparcia-Alcazar, A. Ekart, S. Silva, S. Dignum and A. Sima Uyar, editors, EuroGP 2010 - 13th European Conference on Genetic Programming, volume 6021 of LNCS, pages 62-73, Istanbul, Turkey 7-9 April, 2010. Springer
  • E. Galvan-Lopez and M. O'Neill. Towards Understanding the Effects of Locality in GP, in A. Hernandez-Aguirre, R. Monroy-Borja and C. Reyes-Garcia, editors, Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (MICAI 2009), pages 9-14, Guanajuato, Mexico, 9-13 November, 2009. IEEE Press
  • E. Galvan-Lopez and R. Poli. An Empirical Investigation of How Degree Neutrality Affects GP Search, in A. Hernandez-Aguirre, R. Monroy-Borja and C. Reyes-Garcia, editors, Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (MICAI 2009), volume 5845 of LNCS, pages 728-739, Guanajuato, Mexico, 9-13 November, 2009. Springer
  • Q. U. Nguyen,  M. O'Neill,  X. H. Nguyen,  B. McKay, E. Galvan-Lopez. An Analysis of Semantic Aware Crossover, in Z. Cai, Z. Li, Z. Kang and Y. Liu, editors,  4th International Symposium on Intelligence Computation and Applications (ISICA 2009), pages 56-65, Huangshi, China. 23-25 October 2009. Springer.
  • Q. U. Nguyen,  M. O'Neill,  X. H. Nguyen,  B. McKay, E. Galvan-Lopez. Semantic Similarity based Crossover in GP: The case for Real-valued Function Regression, 9th international conference on Artificial Evolution (EA'09), pages 13-24, Strasbourg, France. 26-28 October, 2009. Springer.
  • E. Galvan-Lopez and M. O'Neill. On The Effects of Locality in a Permutation Problem: The Sudoku Puzzle, IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Games (CIG 2009), pages 80-87. Milan, Italy. IEEE Press.
  • E. Galvan-Lopez, S. Dignum and R. Poli. The Effects of Constant Neutrality on Performance and Problem Hardness in GP, in M. O’Neill, L. Vanneschi, S. Gustafson, A. I. Esparcia Alcazar, I. De Falco, A. Della Cioppa and E. Tarantino, editors, EuroGP 2008 – 11th European Conference on Genetic Programming, volume 4971 of LNCS, pages 312 – 324, Napoli, Italy. 26 – 28 April, 2008. Springer.
  • E. Galvan-Lopez and K. Rodrígez Vázquez. Multiple Interactive Outputs in a Single Tree: An Empirical Investigation, in M. Ebner, M. O’Neill, A. Ekart, L. Vanneschi and A. I. Esparcia-Alcazar, editors, EuroGP 2007 - 10th European Conference on Genetic Programming, volume 4445 of LNCS, pages 341 – 350, Valencia, Spain 11 – 13 April. Springer.
  • R. Poli and E. Galvan-Lopez. On the Effects of Bit-Wise Neutrality on Fitness Distance Correlation, Phenotypic Mutation Rates and Problem Hardness, in C. R.  Stephens, M. Toussaint, D. Whitley and P. F. Stadler, editors, FOGA: Foundations of Genetic Algorithms 2007, volume 4436 of LNCS, pages 138-164, Mexico City, Mexico 8-11 January, 2007. Springer.
  • E. Galvan-Lopez and R. Poli. How and Why a Bit-Wise Neutrality with and without Locality Affects Evolutionary Search, in D. Thierens, H. Beyer, J. A. Clark, D. Cliff, C. B. Congdon, K. Deb, B. Doerr, T. Kovacs, S. Kumar, J. F. Miller, J. Moore, F. Neumann, M. Pelikan, R. Poli and K. Sastry, editors, GECCO 2007: Proceedings of the 9th Annual Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation, pages 1508, London, UK, 7-11 July, 2007. ACM Press.
  • E. Galvan-Lopez, J. Togelius and S. Lucas. Towards Understanding the Effects of Neutrality on the Sudoku Problem in D. Thierens, H. Beyer, J. A. Clark, D. Cliff, C. B. Congdon, K. Deb, B. Doerr, T. Kovacs, S. Kumar, J. F. Miller, J. Moore, F. Neumann, M. Pelikan, R. Poli and K. Sastry, editors, GECCO 2007: Proceedings of the 9th Annual Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation, pages 1509, London, UK, 7-11 July, 2007. ACM Press.
  • E. Galvan-Lopez and R. Poli. Some Steps Towards Understanding How Neutrality Affects Evolutionary Search, in T. P. Runarsson, H. Beyer, E. K. Burke, J. J. Merelo Guervos, L D. Whitley and X. Yao, editors, PPSN IX: Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving from Nature, volume 4193 of LNCS, pages 778 – 787, Reykjavik, Iceland, 9 – 13 September 2006. Springer.
  • E. Galvan-Lopez and K. Rodríguez Vázquez, The Importance of Neutral Mutations in GP, in T. P. Runarsson, H. Beyer, E. K. Burke, J. J. Merelo Guervos, L D. Whitley
    and X. Yao, editors, PPSN IX: Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving from Nature, volume 4193 of LNCS, pages 870-879, Reykjavik, Iceland, 9 – 13 September 2006. Springer.
  • E. Galvan-Lopez and R. Poli, An Empirical Investigation of How and Why Neutrality Affects Evolutionary Search, in M. Keijzer, M. Cattolico, D. Arnold, V. Babovic, C. Blum, P. Bosman, M. V. Butz, C. Coello Coello, D. Dasgupta, S. G. Ficici, J. Foster, H. Lipson, P. McMinn, J. Moore, G. Raidl, F. Rothlauf, C. Ryan and D. Thierens, editors, GECCO 2006: Proceedings of the 8th Annual Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation, pages 1149 - 1156, Seattle, Washington, USA, 8-12, July 2006. ACM Press. Nominated for Best Paper in Genetic Algorithms Track.
  • E. Galvan-Lopez, R. Poli and C. Coello Coello, Reusing Code in Genetic Programming, in M. Keijzer, U. M. O'Reilly, S. M. Lucas, E. Costa and T. Soule, editors, EuroGP 2004: 7th European Conference on Genetic Programming, volume 3003 of LNCS, pages 359--368, Coimbra, Portugal, April 5-7, 2004. Springer. 


Workshop

  • E. Galvan-Lopez. Effects of Neutrality in Evolutionary Search. In EvoPhD - Second European Graduate Student Workshop on Evolutionary Computation, Valencia, Spain, 11-13 April, 2007.

 

MSc Dissertation

  • E. Galvan-Lopez. Design of Combinatorial Logic Circuits using Genetic Programming, Department of Artificial Intelligence, University of Veracruz, Mexico, 2001.

 

Late Breaking Papers

  • E. Galvan-Lopez, K. Rodriguez Vazquez and R. Poli, Beneficial Aspects of Neutrality in GP, In Late breaking paper at Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2005), Washington, D.C., USA. 25-29 June 2005.

 

Teaching

I have been a teaching assistant of the following module in the School of Computer Science and Informatics at University College Dublin, Ireland:

  • COMP41190 - Natural Computing and Applications (Academic Year: 2010)
  • COMP30290 - Natural Computing (Academic Year: 2009)

I have been a teaching assistant of the following module in the School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering at University of Essex, UK:

  • CC484 - Constraint Satisfaction (Academic Year: 2006)

 I have mentored the following students:

  • Eoin Murphy (PhD)
  • David Fagan (PhD)
  • Nguyen Uy (PhD)

Collaborators

Researchers with whom I have collaborated in several papers:

 

  • Prof. Anthony Brabazon
  • Prof. Riccardo Poli
  • Prof. Simon Lucas
  • Prof. Edward Tsang
  • Prof. Carlos A. Coello Coello
  • Dr. Michael O'Neill
  • Dr. Bob McKay
  • Dr. Nguyen Xuan Hoai
  • Dr. James McDermott
  • Dr. Alma L. Garcia-Almanza
  • Dr. Julian Togelius
  • Dr. Katya Rodriguez-Vazquez
  • Dr. Stephen Dignum
  • Dr. Alexandros Agapitos
  • Dr. Miguel Nicolau
  • Ahmed Kattan
  • Nguyen Uy
  • John Mark Swafford
  • Eoin Murphy
  • David Fagan
  • Jonathan Byrne