I have had a longstanding desire to work as an optimization engineer. More particularly I have been mesmerized by the power of evolutionary algorithms to
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A Reflection on My Research Interests
Here is a lecture I gave on my research interests. The corresponding slides can be found here: A Reflection on My Research Proposals from Roaming
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Of Indispensable Requirements and Aquaponics
We have a saying in Pakistan that a white man thinks a hundred years ahead of time. An Indian (i.e. a subcontinental Indian, not to
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Simulated Drone Flying Competition
Ideas crawl into minds like snails and fly away like pigeons. It is harder to conceive them and easier to forget them. It is even
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On Water Distribution Networks
Another discipline I have been thinking about for quite some time is about water distribution networks. I think that paying attention to water distribution is
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Grammatical Optimization
Grammatical optimization is based on an idea to provide production rules of a user-specified context-free grammar (in Backus-Naur form) to a genetic algorithm. The genetic
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Java Beagle
Using genetic programming to find solutions to real-world problems is one thing, implementing a framework for automatic programming is totally another. Java beagle is a
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Evolutionary Nursery
Long time ago I was quite inspired by the power of evolutionary algorithms as problem solvers. I still am. But it is about that time
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Of Journals and Rejections
I have a nice research paper with me that I wrote some time ago. I submitted to half a dozen journals in the hope that
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On Renewable Energy Systems
For quite some time, I have been considering it incumbent upon myself to write a research proposal about renewable energy systems. This desire has been
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