List of hosting institutions for the SPECIES Scholarship program in 2020. A short overview of each institution is given. More details of the supervisor, research group, available projects, and others, is provided as a PDF document in the section dedicated to each institution.

Brunel University London, London, UK

  • Location: Department of Computer Science College of Engineering, Design and Physical Sciences, Brunel University London, London, UK
  • Supervisor: Crina Grosan (Homepage)
  • Project: Experimental artificial intelligence for healthcare data
  • Details about supervisor, research group, projects and others: London_info

Edinburgh Napier University, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

  • Location: The Nature Inspired Intelligent Systems group (NIIS), School of Computing, Edinburgh Napier University, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
  • Supervisor: Emma Hart (Homepage)
  • Projects:
    • (Co) Evolution of Morphology and Controllers in robotics
    • Quality-Diversity algorithms for generating diverse solutions in combinatorial optimisation
    • Algorithm Selection for meta-heuristics, leveraging a range of machine-learning approaches
    • Evolution of algorithm portfolios which exhibit a diversity of behaviours
    • Lifelong learning in optimisation: methods for continual adaptation of algorithms based on problem-solving experience
  • Details about supervisor, research group, projects and others: Edinburgh_info

Kadir Has University, Istanbul, Turkey

  • Location: Management Information Science Department, Kadir Has University, Istanbul, Turkey.
  • Supervisor: Oğuzhan Ceylan (Hompage)
  • Projects: Nature-inspired algorithms for smart grid and power systems optimization problems.
  • Details about supervisor, research group, projects and others: Istanbul_info

Lancaster University, Lancaster, England, UK

  • Location:  Department of Management Science, Lancaster University Management School (LUMS), Lancaster University, UK.
  • Supervisor: Ahmed Kheiri (Homepage)
  • Project: Hyper-heuristics and Data Science Techniques for Inventory Routing Problem
  • Details about supervisor, research group, projects and others: Lancaster_info

Mathematical Institute, Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Belgrade, Serbia

  • Location: Mathematical Institute, Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Mathematical programming and optimization research group,  Belgrade, Serbia.
  • Supervisor: Tatjana Davidović (Homepage)
  • Project: Integrating Machine Learning and Metaheuristics
  • Details about supervisor, research group, projects and others: Belgrade_info

Technical Institute of Tijuana, Tijuana, Mexico

  • Location: Department of Electric and Electronic Engineering, Technical Institute of Tijuana (ITT), Mexico.
  • Supervisor: Leonardo Trujillo (Homepage)
  • Projects:
    • Integrating Local Search methods into our GPU-based implementations of GP
    • CUDA-based implementation of RANSAC-GP
    • A distributed platform for GP-based search
    • GI-benchmarking
  • Details about supervisor, research group, projects and others: Tijuana_info

Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel

University of Algarve, Faro, Portugal

  • Location: Center for Environmental and Sustainability Research (CENSE), Department of Informatics Engineering and Electronics,  University of Algarve, Portugal.
  • Supervisor: Fernando Lobo (Homepage)
  • Project: Automating parameter selection in local search algorithms
  • Details about supervisor, research group, projects and others: Algarve_info

University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal

  • Location:  Evolutionary and Complex Systems (ECOS), Centre for Informatics and Systems (CISUC), University of Coimbra, Portugal.
  • Supervisors: Nuno Lourenço (Homepage) and Penousal Machado (Homepage)
  • Project: Evolutionary Multitask Learning
  • Details about supervisor, research group, projects and others: Coimbra_info

University of Granada, Granada, Spain

  • Location: GenNeura research team, Department of Computer Architecture and Technology, University of Granada, Spain.
  • Supervisor: Juan Julián Merelo Guervós (Homepage)
  • Projects:
    • Computational intelligence in games.
    • Data science applied to soccer and other games.
    • Procedural content generation using metaheuristics.
    • Distributed/concurrent evolutionary algorithms
  • Details about supervisor, research group, projects and others: Granada_info

University Gustave Eiffel, Paris, France

University NOVA de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal

University of Plymouth, Plymouth, England, UK

  • Location: Plymouth Optimisation Group, Centre for Robotics and Neural Systems (CRNS), University of Plymouth, Plymouth, England, UK.
  • Supervisors: David Walker (Homepage) and Matthew Craven (Homepage)
  • Projects:
    • Visualisation
    • Benchmarking
    • Industrial optimisation
    • Hybrid optimisation
  • Details about supervisors, research group, projects and others: Plymouth_info

University of Stirling, Stirling, Scotland, UK

  • Location:  DAIS research group, Department of Computing Science and Mathematics, University of Stirling, Scotland, UK.
  • Supervisor: Gabriela Ochoa (Homepage)
  • Projects:
    • Visualisation and analysis of computational search spaces using network-based models with applications to machine learning problems.
    • Evolutionary design of antibiotic treatments.
  • Details about supervisor, research group, projects and others: Stirling_info

University of Toulouse, Toulouse, France

  • Location: ISAE-SUPAERO Engineering School,  SuReLI research team, Department of Complex Systems Engineering, University of Toulouse, Toulouse, France.
  • Supervisor: Dennis Wilson (Homepage)
  • Project: Evolutionary Reinforcement Learning
  • Details about supervisor, research group, projects and others: Toulouse_info

University of Trento, Trento, Italy

  • Location: Distributed Intelligence and Optimization Lab (DIOL), Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science (DISI), University of Trento (UNITN), Italy.
  • Supervisor: Giovanni Iacca (Homepage)
  • Project: Scalability of “compact” Evolutionary Algorithms (cEAs), which is are class of Estimation of Distribution Algorithms (EDAs)
  • Details about supervisor, research group, projects and others: Trento_info

University of Trieste, Trieste, Italy

  • Location: Evolutionary Robotics and Artificial Life lab (ERALLab), and Machine Learning lab (MaLeLab), Department of Engineering and Architecture (DIA), University of Trieste, Italy.
  • Supervisor: Eric Medvet (Homepage) (CV-EricMedvet)
  • Project: ReMoSo: representations and learning algorithms for highly reconfigurable modular soft robots.
  • Details about research group, projects and others: Trieste_info

University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria, Austria

  • Location: Heuristic and Evolutionary Algorithms Laboratory (HEAL) research group, Software Engineering Department located, University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria, Hagenberg Campus, Austria.
  • Supervisor: Stefan Wagner (Homepage)
  • Project: Adaptive Optimization in Dynamic Environments
  • Details about supervisor, research group, projects and others: UpperAustria_info
SPECIES Scholarship 2020 Hosts