Manuel López-Ibáñez

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I am Full Professor (Chair) of Optimisation in the Decision and Cognitive Sciences Research Centre at the Alliance Manchester Business School, University of Manchester, UK. I joined the University of Manchester in October 2015 as a full-time Lecture (Assistant Professor).

Between May 1st, 2020 and July 31st, 2022, I was a "Beatriz Galindo" Senior Distinguished Researcher at the University of Málaga, Spain.

Before September 2015, I was a Chargé de recherches (Postdoctoral researcher) of the Belgian F.R.S.-FNRS at IRIDIA, the Artificial Intelligence (AI) laboratory of the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Brussels, Belgium. I received a M.S. degree in Computer Science from the University of Granada (Spain) in 2004, and a Ph.D. from Edinburgh Napier University, U.K. in 2009.

My main expertise is the solution of mathematical optimization problems arising in operations research, computer science and engineering, including continuous, combinatorial, and multi-objective problems My research focuses on optimization methods such as metaheuristics, stochastic local search algorithms, evolutionary algorithms, ant colony optimization and Bayesian optimization. I have made significant contributions to theoretical and practical aspects of the empirical analysis of multi-objective optimization algorithms. I have also a track record of working on problems relevant in practice, both well-known academic problems with important practical applications and real-world optimization problems. I am interested in improving the understanding of optimization algorithms by means of experimentation, and I am particularly interested in difficult multidisciplinary problems. These interests have led me to carry out research on automatic selection, configuration and design algorithms and how to extend and improve existing methods for more complex optimization problems, such as those with multiple objectives.

I have also developed several widely used software tools such as irace, hypervolume computation and EAF computation and visualization.

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	Email:	manuel.lopez-ibanezmanchester.ac.uk
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