June 2016 - 2018

Research

I was a Postdoctoral Researcher in the NCRA (Natural Computing Research and Applications) Group in University College Dublin.

Working on Search-Based Software Engineering.

2017

Performance Improvement of Regular Expressions

Reducing run-time of regexes in Python with Genetic Programming.

Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/1704.04119
Source: https://github.com/codykenb/PonyGE2

June 2016

PhD

Ph.D. Graduand as of October 2015 in Trinity College Dublin. Graduated June 2016.

Thesis Title: Genetic Programming Bias with Software Performance Analysis

Interests include the application of Evolutionary Computation to Software Engineering.

Thesis:
http://www.tara.tcd.ie/handle/2262/76251

Source available:
https://github.com/codykenb/locoGP

July 2015

locoGP

locoGP is a Genetic Programming system which modifies, compiles and executes Java source code with a focus on improving the performance of programs as measured in bytecodes executed.

Paper: html pdf
Java problems and improvement listings: html
Source: github