John R. Woodward received the B.Sc. degree in theoretical physics, M.S. degree in cognitive science, and Ph.D. degree in artificial intelligence from the University of Birmingham, Birmingham, U.K. He has previously led the Operational Research group at Queen Mary, University of London () and prior to that lectured at the Universities of Stirling, Nottingham and Birmingham. He was with the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Switzerland, where he conducted research into particle physics, the Royal Air Force as an Environmental Noise Scientist, and Electronic Data Systems as a Systems Engineer.
Machine Learning,
Operational Research,
Optimization,
Artificial Intelligence,
Computational Intelligence
Automatically Design Algorithms
Recent publications
- Brownlee, A.E.I, Haraldsson, S.O, Woodward, J.R. , Proceedings of the Companion Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation, pp.1213-1247.
- Hong, L, Yu, X, Wang, B, Woodward, J, Özcan, E. , Swarm and Evolutionary Computation, 2023, pp. 101278.
- El Krari, M, Nesrine Guibadj, R, Woodward, J, Robilliard, D , European Conference on Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimization (Part of EvoStar), 2023, pp. 1-15.
- Woodward, J. , Metaheuristics: 14th International Conference, MIC 2022, Syracuse, Italy, July 11–14, 2022, Proceedings, pp. 378
- Wang, X, Brownlee, A.E.I, Weiszer, M, Woodward, J.R, Mahfouf, M, Chen, J , IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, Vol. 31, Issue 2, 2022, pp. 582-595