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Dr Keshav P Dahal
BIOGRAPHY
Keshav Dahal is a reader in the Department of Computing at the University of Bradford. He is a founding member of Modelling, Optimisation, Scheduling And Intelligent Control (MOSAIC) research group. Prior to joining the University of Bradford he was was with the Institute for Energy and Environment at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow. He also worked as a lecturer at the Institute of Engineering, Kathmandu, Nepal.
GRANTS:
Awards and Recognition:
2009 Best Paper award at the 11th IEEE Conference on Commerce and Enterprise Computing (IEEE Computer Society press) (Winner out of 98 papers submitted, 21 full papers accepted).
RESEARCH STAFF:
Ruohui YANG (Inventory Management of Operations Scheduling at Universal AV Services, Bradford - Funded by DTI and Universal AV Services)
RESEARCH STUDENTS:
Sanat Kumar Bista (AI for trust modelling)
Indicators of EsteemFellowships of Professional Institutions or equivalentMIEEE (Member of IEEE); Member of Computational Intelligence Society (IEEE CIS); Member of Industrial IEEE Application Society (IEEE IAS); Professional Activities & Links Co-ordinator for UK chapter of IEEE IAS.[2007] Fellow of the Higher Education Academy UK [2007] CEng, Chartered Engineer, Engineering Council, UK [2005] MIET - Member, Institute of Engineering and Technology, UK [2003] International Conference OrganisationIEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation[2010] Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2010) [2010] Programme/Refereeing Committee - The tenth European Conference on Evolutionary Computation and Metaheuristics in Combinatorial Optimization (EvoCOP 2010), (Turkey) [2010] Programme/Refereeing Committee - The World Congress on Nature and Biologically Inspired Computing (NaBIC'09), (India) [2009] The International Conference of Soft Computing and Pattern Recognition (SoCPaR 2009), (Malaysia) [2009] Programme/Refereeing Committee - The 10th International Conference on Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning (IDEAL 09) [2009] Programme/Refereeing Committee - The Ninth European Conference on Evolutionary Computation and Metaheuristics in Combinatorial Optimization (EvoCOP 2009), (Germany) [2009] Member of Programme/Refereeing Committee of the International Conference on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications ISDA 2008 (Taiwan). [2008] Publicity chair - Online World Conference on Soft Computing in Industrial Applications: WSC 2008 [2008] Refereeing Committee - International Workshop on Hybrid Artificial Intelligence Systems, HAIS 2008 (Spain). [2008] Refereeing Committee - International Conference on Intelligent Computing (ICIC 2008), China. [2008] Programme/Refereeing Committee - International Conference on Hybrid Intelligent Systems HIS 2008 (Spain). [2008] Refereeing Committee - The International Conference on Computer information systems and industrial management applications CISIM 2008 (Czech Republic). [2008] Member of Refereeing Committee of 2008 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI 2008) CEC2008 (Hong Kong). [2008] Advisory Board Member and Organiser of the International Conference in Software, Knowledge, Information Managment and Applications (SKIMA) 2008 in Nepal (outcomes of the EU funded East-West Project). [2008] Programme/Refereeing Committee - The Eighth European Conference on Evolutionary Computation and Metaheuristics in Combinatorial Optimization (EvoCOP 2008), Napoli (Italy) [2008] Publicity Chair and Member of Programme/Refereeing Committee of the International Conference on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications ISDA 2007 (Brazil) [2007] Publicity chair - Online World Conference on Soft Computing in Industrial Applications: WSC12 (Springer) [2007] Publicity Co-chair and Programme/Refereeing Committee Memberof IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation 2007 (IEEE CEC 2007), Singapore. [2007] Co-chair of the special session committee on "Evolutionary Scheduling" at IEEE Conference on Evolutionary Computation 2007 (CEC2007), Singapore. [2007] Programme/Refereeing Committee - Seventh European Conference on Evolutionary Computation and Metaheuristics in Combinatorial Optimization (EvoCOP 2007), Valencia (Spain) [2007] International Plenary Lectures, Conference KeynoteEvolutionary Scheduling, Invited research talk, University of Lyon 2, France[2007] Membership of Research Council Peer Review CollegeMember of the EPSRC peer review college from 2006. Research Proposal review for EPSRC.[2006] OtherPhD external examiner, University of Strathclyde[2008] PhD external examiner, University of Cranfield [2008] MSc by research external examiner, Cranfield University [2008] PhD external examiner, University of Stirling [2007] Editor-in-Chief (EIC) of the International Journal of Computational Intelligence Research (IJCIR) http://www.softcomputing.net/ijcir/ [2007] MPhil external examiner, University of Stirling [2007] Reviewer for IEEE Transactions SMC-B [2007] Review board member for Journal of Scheduling [2007] PhD external examiner, University of Essex [2007] Review board member for European Journal of Operational Research [2007] Review board member for the IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation [2007] External Examiner for MSc by Research course, University of Staffordshire [2006] Visiting Professor, College of Arts, Media and Technology, Chiangmai University, Thailand [2006] Visiting Professor, Kantipur Engineering College, Kathmandu, Nepal [2006] External Examiner for UG courses in Computer and Information Systems, University of Bedfordshire [2005] Prizes, Medals, AwardsBest Paper award at the 11th IEEE Conference on Commerce and Enterprise Computing (IEEE CEC 2009, IEEE Computer Society press) (Winner out of 98 papers submitted, 21 full papers accepted)[] "Best Paper" nomination at the EvoCOP 2007 conference (Springer LNCS vol. 4446) (3 papers nominated for prizes out of 81 submitted, with 21 accepted for publication). [2007] "Best Paper" nomination at the EvoCOP 2006 conference (Springer LNCS vol. 3906/2006) [2006] |
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