Professor Jonathan Fieldsend

I am Professor of Computational Intelligence, Director of Research & Impact, and Academic Lead of the Optimisation Group in the Department of Computer Science.

My research has been supported by a number of grants, with funders including EPSRC, Innovate UK, NERC, and industy. I am currently an Associate Editor of ACM Transactions on Evolutionary Learning and Optimization and also previously of IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation and Complex and Intellgent Systems. I am a vice-chair of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Task Force on Data-Driven Evolutionary Optimization of Expensive Problems and also vice-chair of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Task Force on Multi-Modal Optimization. I was also co-Chair of the EMO Track at ACM GECCO 2019 and ACM GECCO 2020, and Editor-in-Chief of ACM GECCO 2022. I am program co-Chair of ACM FOGA 2025.

I graduated with a BA in Economics from the University of Durham in 1998, an MSc in Computational Intelligence from the University of Plymouth in 1999 and a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Exeter in 2003. Following which I held postdoctoral research positions before starting as Lecturer at Exeter in 2006.

Most of my codebase relating to my recent publications is available on GitHub. Please access the repositories here.

My Google scholar page.

Open Positions

I do not currently have any open post-doctoral positions in my group, but I welcome contact from potential PhD students who want to persue a programme of research in the areas of multi-objective optimisation, evolutionary computation and machine learning. Please note, if I currently have any competitive PhD funding available (i.e. studentships) I will advertise it here with an application link.