Paweł Widera

School of Computing
Newcastle University
1 Science Square
Newcastle, NE4 5TG, UK

Office: 5.014
E-mail: name.surname@ncl.ac.uk
GPG key: 4096R/BBCFE170

Lecturer

PhD - Univerisity of Nottingham, UK
MSc, BSc - Poznań University of Technology, Poland

Research Interests

bioinformatics, evolutionary algorithms, heuristics and metaheuristics, interactive data visualisation, machine learning

News

11^th July 2014

I've received a Spotlight Award in recognition for excellence in software engineering and graphics design related to my work on the ICOS group websites.

1^st October 2013

I've moved up north. After seven years in Nottingham, it was a time for a change. I'm now a researcher at Newcastle University and I continue here the work on network analysis and visualisation. That doesn't mean I'm giving up on the optimisation or evolutionary computations. As time and opportunity allows I will try to use it here and there...

26^th July 2011

I've published on arxiv.org the final version of an article on distributed protein model comparison using the GAE computing platform and its PaaS model. Try the web application and send me your comments :)

11^th July 2010

My work on genetic programming and energy functions for protein structure prediction has won a prestigious 1st prize (gold medal) at the 7th HUMIES awards for human-competitive results produced by genetic end evolutionary computation held at GECCO conference in Portland, USA.

10^th May 2010

I've defended my Ph.D. thesis on "Automated design of energy functions for protein structure prediction by means of genetic programming and improved structure similarity assessment".

15^th Novemeber 2006

I've been awarded the best short talk prize at the 5^th East Midlands Proteomics Workshop held at Nottingham Trent University.