Michael O'Neill

Biography

Research Interests:

• Application of biological principles to computer science and applying computer science to real-world problems
• Evolutionary Computation
• Genetic Programming
• Natural Computing
• Swarm Intelligence

General

Name and Title: 

Dr Michael O'Neill B.Sc., H.Dip.Comp.Sc., Ph.D.

Position: 

Senior Lecturer

Phone: 

+353 1 716 5345

Email: 

Office: 

CASL / 2E

Address:
School of Computer Science & Informatics
Belfield Office Park - 8
Belfield
Dublin 4

• Research
• Teaching

Research

Research Interests

• Natural Computing, Evolutionary Computation, Genetic Programming, Swarm Intelligence, Application of biological principles to computer science and applying computer science to real-world problems.

Research Projects

• Sponsor : Science Foundation Ireland (SFI)
  Title : SFI GECCO Conference Award July 2011
  Start Date / End Date : 01-JUN-11 / 30-NOV-11
  
• Sponsor : University College Dublin Foundation Ltd.
  Title : Computer Science Summer School
  Start Date / End Date : 01-DEC-10 / 31-DEC-11
  
• Sponsor : Science Foundation Ireland (SFI)
  Title : Financial mathematics and computation cluster (FMC2) - WP10
  Start Date / End Date : 01-SEP-09 / 01-SEP-12
  
• Sponsor : Science Foundation Ireland (SFI)
  Title : Financial mathematics and computation cluster (FMC2) - WP9
  Start Date / End Date : 01-SEP-09 / 01-SEP-12
  
• Sponsor : Science Foundation Ireland (SFI)
  Title : Financial mathematics and computation cluster (FMC2) - WP7
  Start Date / End Date : 01-SEP-09 / 01-SEP-12
  
• Sponsor : Science Foundation Ireland (SFI)
  Title : Financial mathematics and computation cluster (FMC2) - WP5
  Start Date / End Date : 01-SEP-09 / 01-SEP-12
  
• Sponsor : Science Foundation Ireland (SFI)
  Title : Financial mathematics and computation cluster (FMC2) - Outreach account
  Start Date / End Date : 01-SEP-09 / 01-SEP-12
  
• Sponsor : Science Foundation Ireland (SFI)
  Title : Financial mathematics and computation cluster (FMC2) - Management account
  Start Date / End Date : 01-SEP-09 / 01-SEP-12
  
• Sponsor : Science Foundation Ireland (SFI)
  Title : Evolution in dynamic environments with Grammatical Evolution
  Start Date / End Date : 01-JAN-09 / 31-DEC-12
  
• Sponsor : Science Foundation Ireland (SFI)
  Title : Grammatical Representations for Evolutionary Design
  Start Date / End Date : 01-SEP-08 / 29-FEB-12
  
• Sponsor : Science Foundation Ireland (SFI)
  Title : Financial mathematics and computation cluster (FMC2) - WP6
  Start Date / End Date : 01-SEP-09 / 01-SEP-12
  
• Sponsor : Science Foundation Ireland (SFI)
  Title : Financial mathematics and computation cluster (FMC2) - WP8
  Start Date / End Date : 01-SEP-09 / 01-SEP-12
  
• Sponsor : Science Foundation Ireland (SFI)
  Title : Meta-grammars and grammatical evolution for dynamic environments
  Start Date / End Date : 01-SEP-06 / 28-FEB-10
  
• Sponsor : Irish Research Council for Science Engineering and Technology (IRCSET)
  Title : Representations in evolutionary computation: General principles and two applications
  Start Date / End Date : 23-AUG-10 / 31-JAN-13
  
• Sponsor : Irish Research Council for Science Engineering and Technology (IRCSET)
  Title : Semantics in Genetic Programming
  Start Date / End Date : 01-OCT-08 / 30-SEP-11
  
• Sponsor : Irish Research Council for Science Engineering and Technology (IRCSET)
  Title : Interactive Grammatical Evolution
  Start Date / End Date : 15-SEP-08 / 14-SEP-10
  
• Sponsor : Failte Ireland
  Title : Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO) - Dublin, July 2011
  Start Date / End Date : 01-JUL-10 / 31-DEC-11
  
• Sponsor : University College Dublin (UCD)
  Title : A grammatical aproach to the evolutionary exploration of Architectural Form
  Start Date / End Date : 01-JUN-07 / 01-DEC-08
  
• Sponsor : University College Dublin (UCD)
  Title : Bacteria-inspried computing
  Start Date / End Date : 01-SEP-06 / 31-AUG-07
  

Teaching

Teaching Interests

Recent Postgraduates

Current Postgraduate Students

• Cliodhna Tuite, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)   -   Thesis Supervisor
• Jonathan Byrne, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)   -   Thesis Supervisor
• David Fagan, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)   -   Thesis Supervisor
• Eoin Murphy, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)   -   Thesis Supervisor
• John Mark Swafford, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)   -   Thesis Supervisor

Modules Taught

• 201000   COMP41190     Computer Science: Natural Computing Applications
• 201000   COMP00010     Computer Science: Outreach Module - ICSP
• 200800   COMP30290     Computer Science: Natural Computing