Summary
I am a Lecturer (US Assistant Professor) in the Computational Optimisation Group (COG) within the Department of Computing, supported by the BASF / RAEng Senior Research Fellowship in Scale-Bridging Modelling and Optimisation. My research interests are in the areas of optimisation algorithms, process dynamics/control, optimisation for machine learning, and process systems engineering.
Available Positions
Funded PhD Position in Optimisation and Machine Learning
Funded PhD Position with BASF/Modern Statistics and Statistical Machine Learning CDT (details tbc; see post for similar position from previous year)
News
- Jan 2025: Celebrating the new year at the F1 Arcade!

- Sept 2024: Dr Gabriel PatrĂ³n joins the group. Welcome!
- March 2024: I began the BASF/Royal Academy of Engineering Senior Research Fellowship in Scale-Bridging Modelling and Optimisation
- Oct 2023: Starting the autumn by welcoming PhD students, Becky, Phil, and Yilin!

- Sept 2023: Antonio (UC3M) and Mujin (KAIST) join the group as visitors. Welcome!
- Nov 2022: Two papers presented at NeurIPS 2022! SnAKe: Bayesian Optimization with Pathwise Exploration by Jose Pablo Folch and Tree ensemble kernels for Bayesian optimization with known constraints over mixed-feature spaces by Alexander Thebelt
- Aug 2022: I began as Lecturer at Imperial Computing
- June 2022: I was honored to receive the W. David Smith, Jr. Graduate Student Paper Award from the Computing and Systems Technology (CAST) of AIChE