Xavier F. C. Sánchez Díaz

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.