Dimitar Kazakov
University of York (UK) - Department of Computer Science
Dr Dimitar Kazakov is a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Computer Science at the University of York, and Coordinator of the Departmental Artificial Intelligence group. His research encompasses the development of Machine Learning (ML) and Evolutionary Algorithms and their applications to Computational Linguistics, real-time systems, intelligent agents, function optimisation and financial forecasting (see Research interests mind map). He has published over 120 peer-reviewed articles, supervised 7 and co-supervised another 3 PhD students to completion, and was involved in research projects with a total budget of £665,000. He is currently leading a research team of 2 researchers and 6 PhD students. Dr Kazakov is a former Vice-Chair of the UK Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour (AISB).