I am currently a Lecturer/Assistant Professor at the School of Computer Science, University of Galway,.

I have a strong background in Operations Research, Nature-Inspired Computing and Machine Learning, and their application to Cloud Computing, Software Engineering and Testing, and Communication Network Systems.

Previously, I have held the position of Lecturer/Assistant Professor in the School of Computer Science, University College Dublin (UCD) and in the School of Computing at Dublin City University (DCU). I have also held the position of Post-doctoral Researcher in the Natural Computing Research & Applications Group at Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School, UCD, under the supervision of Prof. Michael O¿Neill. My Post-doctoral position was in close collaboration with Bell Labs, Nokia and aimed at applying Evolutionary Design to optimise Future Networks & Communications such as 5G networks.

I obtained both my B.Sc. in Computer Science and my M.Sc. in Computer Science, track: Optimisation In Operations Research in 2013 from the University of Nantes, France.