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Michael O'Neill

Michael O'Neill is a Full Professor of Business Analytics in the UCD School of Business and a founding Director of the UCD Natural Computing Research & Applications Group. He is currently Subject Area Head of Management Information Systems in the UCD College of Business.

O'Neill previously served in several senior leadership roles, including Associate Dean and Director of the UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School, Vice-Principal UCD College of Business (Research, Innovation & Impact), and Director of UCD's Institute for interdisciplinary research, the UCD Complex & Adaptive Systems Laboratory (CASL).

He is one of the inventors of Grammatical Evolution and is the lead author of the seminal book on the subject. O'Neill is independently ranked as one of the top 5 researchers in Genetic Programming of all time. In 2019, his team won the HUMIES Gold Award for Human-competitive Artificial Intelligence on Cellular Networks at the ACM GECCO conference in Prague.

O'Neill completed his undergraduate degree in Computer Science and Mathematics at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 2014 and his master's degree in Computer Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2016. He is currently a PhD student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, working with Professor Stephen Wright on continuous optimization theory, with a focus on the worst-case complexity of nonconvex optimization methods.

O'Neill's recent publications include:

O'Neill has also published extensively in the fields of genetics and genomics, with notable publications including:

- "Tissue-Specific Transcriptome for Poeciliopsis prolifica Reveals Evidence for Genetic Adaptation Related to the Evolution of a Placental Fish" (co-authored with N.K. Jue, R.J. Foley, D.N. Reznick, O'Neill O'Neill, and O'Neill M.J.)

Michael O'Neill

Michael O'Neill is a Full Professor of Business Analytics in the UCD School of Business and a founding Director of the UCD Natural Computing Research & Applications Group. He is currently Subject Area Head of Management Information Systems in the UCD College of Business.

O'Neill is one of the inventors of Grammatical Evolution and is the lead author of the seminal book on the subject. He is independently ranked as one of the top 5 researchers in Genetic Programming of all time. In 2019, his team won the HUMIES Gold Award for Human-competitive Artificial Intelligence on Cellular Networks.

O'Neill completed his undergraduate degree in Computer Science and Mathematics at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 2014, and his master's degree in Computer Sciences at UW-Madison in 2016. He is currently a PhD student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, working with Professor Stephen Wright on continuous optimization theory, largely focused on the worst-case complexity of nonconvex optimization methods.

Selected Publications

- The Evolution of Self-taught Neural Networks in a Multi-agent Environment. Le N, O'Neill M, Brabazon A

Michael O'Neill

Michael O'Neill is a researcher in the field of genomics and machine learning. He is currently a PhD student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he is working with Professor Stephen Wright on continuous optimization theory, with a focus on the worst-case complexity of nonconvex optimization methods.

Education and Career

O'Neill completed his undergraduate degree in Computer Science and Mathematics at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 2014 and obtained a master's degree in Computer Sciences from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2016. He is currently pursuing his PhD at the same institution.

O'Neill has also held various senior leadership roles at University College Dublin (UCD). He served as Associate Dean and Director of the UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School, Vice-Principal of UCD College of Business, and Director of UCD's Institute for interdisciplinary research, the UCD Complex & Adaptive Systems Laboratory (CASL). Additionally, he is one of the inventors of Grammatical Evolution and is ranked as one of the top 5 researchers in Genetic Programming.

Research and Publications

O'Neill's research interests include optimization algorithms, machine learning, and genomics. He has published extensively in these fields, with notable publications including:

Awards and Recognition

In addition to his research and academic contributions, O'Neill has received recognition for his work. In 2019, his team won the HUMIES Gold Award for Human-competitive Artificial Intelligence on Cellular Networks, presented at the ACM GECCO conference in Prague. His team also won the HUMIES Bronze Award for Innovative Truss Design at the ACM GECCO 2017 conference in Berlin.










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