Professor Joshua Knowles

Professor Joshua Knowles

School of Computer Science
Honorary Senior Research Fellow

Contact details

Telephone
+44 (0)7930954378
Email
j.knowles@bham.ac.uk
Twitter
Address
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Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Josh works full time in the AI group of Schlumberger Cambridge Research developing algorithms to support the energy transition. 

Qualifications

Formerly Professor of Natural Computation:

  • Fellow of the Higher Education Authority
  • PhD in Computer Science, University of Reading, 2002
  • MSc (Dist’n) in Information Systems Engineering, University of Reading, 1996
  • PGCE, University of Reading, 1994
  • BSc (Hons) in Physics with subsid Maths, University of Reading, 1993

Postgraduate supervision

artificial intelligence, swarm intelligence, computational intelligence, evolutionary computation, global optimisation, decision making, reinforcement learning.

Other activities

Josh is a Royal Voluntary Service Responder in the present pandemic.

Publications

Recent publications

Article

Garza-Fabre, M, Handl, J & Knowles, J 2017, '', IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, vol. PP, no. 99.

Lyon, RJ, Stappers, BW, Cooper, S, Brooke, JM & Knowles, J 2016, '', Royal Astronomical Society. Monthly Notices, vol. 459, no. 1, pp. 1104-1123.

Garza-Fabre, M, Kandathil, S, Handl, J, Knowles, J & Lovell, S 2016, '', Evolutionary Computation, vol. 24, no. 4, pp. 577-607.

Conference contribution

Caldwell, J, Knowles, J, Thies, C, Kubacki, F & Watson, R 2021, . in PA Castillo & JL Jim茅nez Laredo (eds), Applications of Evolutionary Computation: 24th International Conference, EvoApplications 2021, Held as Part of EvoStar 2021, Virtual Event, April 7鈥�9, 2021, Proceedings. 1 edn, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), vol. 12694 LNCS, Springer, pp. 506-521, 24th International Conference on the Applications of Evolutionary Computation, EvoApplications 2021 held as Part of EvoStar 2021, Virtual, Online, 7/04/21.

Shavarani, SM, L贸pez-Ib谩帽ez, M & Knowles, J 2021, . in F Chicano (ed.), GECCO '21: Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference. Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO), Association for Computing Machinery , pp. 457-465, 2021 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, GECCO 2021, Virtual, Online, France, 10/07/21.

Miller, S & Knowles, J 2018, . in P Andrews, L Caves, R Doursat, S Hickinbotham, F Polack, S Stepney, T Taylor & J Timmins (eds), Proceedings of the European Conference on Artificial Life 2015. MIT Press, pp. 114-121, European Conference on Artificial Life 2015, York, United Kingdom, 20/07/15.

Webb, AM, Handl, J & Knowles, J 2018, in P Andrews, L Caves, R Doursat, S Hickinbotham, F Polack, S Stepney, T Taylor & J Timmis (eds), Proceedings of the European Conference on Artificial Life 2015. MIT Press, pp. 487-494, European Conference on Artificial Life 2015, York, United Kingdom, 20/07/15.

Garza-Fabre, M, Handl, J & Knowles, J 2017, . in Evolutionary Multi-Criterion Optimization: 9th International Conference, EMO 2017, Munster, Germany, March 19 - March 22, 2017, Proceedings. vol. 10173, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer, pp. 236-251, 9th International Conference on Evolutionary Multi-Criterion Optimization, Munster, Germany, 19/03/17.

Hakanen, J & Knowles, J 2017, . in Evolutionary Multi-Criterion Optimization: 9th International Conference, EMO 2017, Munster, Germany, March 19 - March 22, 2017, Proceedings. vol. 10173, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer, pp. 282-297, 9th International Conference on Evolutionary Multi-Criterion Optimization, Munster, Germany, 19/03/17.

Shir, OM, B盲ck, T, Knowles, J & Allmendinger, R 2017, . in GECCO 2017 - Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference Companion. GECCO 2017 - Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference Companion, Association for Computing Machinery , pp. 828-851, 2017 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference Companion, GECCO 2017, Berlin, Germany, 15/07/17.

Miller, S & Knowles, J 2016, . in M Amos & A Condon (eds), Unconventional Computation and Natural Computation: 15th International Conference, UCNC 2016, Manchester, UK, July 11-15, 2016, Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 9726, Springer, pp. 62-74, 15th International Conference on Unconventional Computation and Natural Computation (UCNC 2016), Manchester, United Kingdom, 11/07/16.

Michalak, K & Knowles, JD 2016, . in G Squillero & P Burelli (eds), Applications of Evolutionary Computation: 19th European Conference, EvoApplications 2016, Porto, Portugal, March 30 - April 1, 2016, Proceedings, Part II. vol. LNCS 9598, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 9598, Springer, pp. 248-265, Evolutionary Algorithms and Meta-heuristics in Stochastic and Dynamic Environments (EVOSTOC 2016), Porto, Portugal, 30/03/16.

Miller, S & Knowles, J 2016, . in Evolutionary Algorithms and Complex Systems (EVOCOMPLEX 2016): EvoWorkshops, Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 9597, Springer, pp. 363-378, EVOCOMPLEX 2016, Porto, Portugal, 30/03/16.

Editorial

Greco, S, Klamroth, K, Knowles, J & Rudolph, G 2017, '', Journal of Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis, vol. 24, no. 1-2, pp. 3-4.

Brockhoff, D, Knowles, J, Naujoks, B & Sindhya, K 2017, '', Computers & Operations Research, vol. 79, pp. 264-265.