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I am a doctoral researcher studying for a PhD in the School of Computer Science at the University of Birmingham since November 2011 under the supervision of Prof. Xin Yao.

I am working with Dr. Dirk Sudholt on parallel bio-inspired computation and with Dr. Alberto Moraglio on genetic programming.

Research interests

• Theory of bio-inspired computation
• Genetic Programming
• Parallel evolutionary algorithms

Conference Articles

• Runtime Analysis of Mutation-Based Geometric Semantic Genetic Programming for Basis Functions Regressions [final version] [preprint]
  Alberto Moraglio and Andrea Mambrini
  Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2013), July 2013, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
  Nominated for a best paper award in the track 'Genetic Programming'.
  
• Theory-Laden Design of Mutation-Based Geometric Semantic Genetic Programming for Learning Classification Trees [final version] [slides] [preprint]
  Andrea Mambrini, Luca Manzoni and Alberto Moraglio
  IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC 2013), June 2013, Cancún, Mexico.
  
• Runtime Analysis of Mutation-Based Geometric Semantic Genetic Programming on Boolean Functions [final version] [slides] [preprint]
  Alberto Moraglio, Andrea Mambrini, and Luca Manzoni
  Foundations of Genetic Algorithms (FOGA 2013), January 2013, Adelaide, Australia.
  
• Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Island Models for the Set Cover Problem [final version] [poster] [slides] [preprint]
  Andrea Mambrini, Dirk Sudholt, and Xin Yao
  Parallel Problem Solving from Nature (PPSN 2012), September 2012, Taormina, Italy.
  

Teaching

• MSc Software Workshop, Tutor (Winter 2012, Fall 2012, Winter 2013)

Programme Committees

• Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO'13)
• IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC'13) -- Theory Special Session
• Computer Science and Electronic Engineering Conference (CEEC'12)

Journal reviewing

• Journal of Computer Science and Technology (JCST, Springer)

Talks

• Theory-Laden design of Mutation-Based Geometric Semantic Genetic Programming for Basis Functions Regression, Workshop on Theory of Randomized Search Heuristics (ThRaSH 2013), 14th September 2013, Aberystwyth, UK [slides]
  
• Geometric Semantic Genetic Programming (GSGP): theory-laden design of semantic mutation operators, European Space and Technology Centre (ESTEC) -- Advanced Concept Team (ACT) -- Science Coffee, 12th July 2013, Noordwijk, The Netherlands [slides]
  
• Geometric Semantic Genetic Programming (GSGP): theory-laden design of semantic mutation operators, University of Sheffield, June 2013, Sheffield, UK [slides]
  
• Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Island Models for the Set Cover Problem [slides]
  Workshop on Theory of Randomized Search Heuristics (ThRaSH 2012), May 2012, Lille, France