Dr Alberto Moraglio

Alberto holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Essex (2007) and Master and Bachelor degrees (Laurea) in Computer Engineering from the Polytechnic University of Turin, Italy. Before joining Exeter as a Lecturer in Computer Science (2013), he worked as a Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham on Complexity Analysis of Evolutionary Algorithms and at the University of Kent on Genetic Programming, as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Engineering at the University of Coimbra, Portugal, and as a Researcher for HP Labs in Bristol on Multi-Agent Systems.

He has been active in Evolutionary Computation research for the last 2 decades with a substantial publication record in the area. He is the founder of the Geometric Theory of Evolutionary Algorithms, which unifies Evolutionary Algorithms across representations and has been used for the principled design of new successful search algorithms and for their rigorous theoretical analysis. He has pioneered the use of semantics in Genetic Programming, and invented Geometric Semantic Genetic Programming, a novel and very successful form of Genetic Programming with strong theoretical foundations, which has gained wide adoption in applications and has been used and extended by many research groups world-wide.

Since 2018, Alberto has been working as a research consultant for Fujitsu Research Laboratores on Optimisation on Quantum Annealing Machines. He has formulated dozen of Combinatorial Optimisation problems in a format suitable for the Quantum hardware. He is also the inventor of a software (compiler) aimed at making these machines usable without specific expertise by automating the translation of high-level description of combinatorial optimisation problems to a low-level format suitable for the Quantum hardware (patented invention).