{"id":695,"date":"2023-09-06T14:35:33","date_gmt":"2023-09-06T13:35:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ncra.ucd.ie\/?p=695"},"modified":"2023-09-06T14:35:33","modified_gmt":"2023-09-06T13:35:33","slug":"phd-graduations-sep-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncra.ucd.ie\/index.php\/2023\/09\/06\/phd-graduations-sep-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"PhD Graduations Sep 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Congratulations to Dr Mark Connor and Dr Nam Le Hai who graduated with PhD&#8217;s from University College Dublin and the UCD Natural Computing Research &amp; Applications Group on 5 September 2023.  Dr Mark Connor&#8217;s PhD thesis title is <strong><em>Optimisation and Adaptation of Athlete Training Load with Evolutionary Computation<\/em><\/strong>. Dr Nam Le Hai&#8217;s thesis is <strong><em>The Interplay between Evolution and Learning in Dynamic Environments<\/em><\/strong>: <em>Computational Metaphor of Adaptive Algorithms<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/ncra.ucd.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/groupgraduationSep2023_smaller-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-697\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ncra.ucd.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/groupgraduationSep2023_smaller-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ncra.ucd.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/groupgraduationSep2023_smaller-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ncra.ucd.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/groupgraduationSep2023_smaller-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ncra.ucd.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/groupgraduationSep2023_smaller-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/ncra.ucd.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/groupgraduationSep2023_smaller-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 706px) 89vw, (max-width: 767px) 82vw, 740px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Prof Anthony Brabazon (Dean UCD Business), Dr Nam Le Hai, Dr Mark Connor, Prof Orla Feely (President UCD), Prof Michael O&#8217;Neill<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/ncra.ucd.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/MarkNam_graduation_Sep2023_small-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-698\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ncra.ucd.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/MarkNam_graduation_Sep2023_small-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ncra.ucd.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/MarkNam_graduation_Sep2023_small-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/ncra.ucd.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/MarkNam_graduation_Sep2023_small-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/ncra.ucd.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/MarkNam_graduation_Sep2023_small-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/ncra.ucd.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/MarkNam_graduation_Sep2023_small-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 706px) 89vw, (max-width: 767px) 82vw, 740px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Dr Nam Le Hai and Dr Mark Connor<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to Dr Mark Connor and Dr Nam Le Hai who graduated with PhD&#8217;s from University College Dublin and the UCD Natural Computing Research &amp; Applications Group on 5 September 2023. Dr Mark Connor&#8217;s PhD thesis title is Optimisation and Adaptation of Athlete Training Load with Evolutionary Computation. Dr Nam Le Hai&#8217;s thesis is The &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ncra.ucd.ie\/index.php\/2023\/09\/06\/phd-graduations-sep-2023\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;PhD Graduations Sep 2023&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncra.ucd.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncra.ucd.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncra.ucd.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncra.ucd.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncra.ucd.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=695"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ncra.ucd.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":701,"href":"https:\/\/ncra.ucd.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695\/revisions\/701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncra.ucd.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncra.ucd.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncra.ucd.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}