Xavier F. C. Sánchez Díaz

PhD Candidate in Artificial Intelligence at NTNU

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IT-bygget 119

Sem Sælands vei 9, Gløshaugen

Trondheim 7034, Norway

I am a PhD candidate in Artificial Intelligence at the Department of Computer Science of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. My research interests include evolutionary computation, multimodal combinatorial optimisation, and search landscape analysis. I enjoy puzzles, maths, nature, and music, and have been working on a playground for evolutionary computation in Julia. More recently, I have been interested in high performance computing and its applications to evolutionary computation.

I was previously a research associate at the Research Group with Strategic Focus in Intelligent Systems of Tecnológico de Monterrey, studying evolutionary computation, hyper-heuristics, and constraint satisfaction. I was also an associate lecturer in the Department of Computer Science, where I was teaching automata theory, discrete maths, and programming languages.

I spent some time as research assistant and lead developer at the Department of Mathematics at Tecnológico de Monterrey, where I implemented online evaluations for maths MOOCs Matemáticas y Movimiento and El Cálculo, among many other projects focusing on mathematics education.

news

Oct 01, 2025 EvoLP.jl v2.0 is out now, with support for island EAs and can be used in HPC Systems! 🎉
Sep 24, 2025 I held a guest lecture at TDT04–Advanced Bio-AI Methods. Slides are available here.
Sep 23, 2025 I presented a poster at NorwAI Innovate 2025. The poster is available here.
Aug 25, 2025 New project/blog post about using Julia for Evolutionary Computation.
Aug 22, 2025 My master thesis is now available in publications, since I cannot find it anywhere on the Internet.

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