DAVID R. WHITE

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I am a SICSA Research Fellow in Complex Systems, in the School of Computing Science at the University of Glasgow. I am a member of the ENDS research group under the supervision of Jeremy Singer.

My current research concerns are the optimisation and reformulation of memory management problems, with a view to adaptive configuration of garbage collection and heap organisation, as well as applying optimisation methods at the larger scale of virtual machines and hypervisor-based cloud systems.

I am interested in heuristic search, evolutionary computation and operations research-based methods of optimisation. I also have more than a passing interest in developing a rigorous experimental method for empirical algorithm comparisons.

I previously worked on the SEBASE project at the University of York in collaboration with UCL and the University of Birmingham. SEBASE is the project at the heart of the search-based software engineering community, a group of academic and industrial researchers concerned with applying heuristic search to software engineering problems.