Anthony Ventresque
Academic
Contact Details
Trinity College Dublin
Dr Anthony Ventresque founded and leads the TCD Complex Software Lab. Dr Ventresque received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the University of Nantes & INRIA France in 2008. He is currently an Associate Professor in the School of Computer Science and Statistics at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, and a Funded Investigator with Lero, the SFI Irish Software Research Centre. Previously he held positions as Research Fellow at NTU, Singapore (2010–2011), UCD, Ireland (2012–2014) IBM Research Dublin, Ireland (2014–2015) and UCD, Ireland (Assistant Prof.: 2015-2022 and Visiting Associate Prof: 2023-now).
Publications
2025
Connors, Will, Dane, Kathryn, Hendricks, Sharief, Laurent, Thomas, Rushe, Ellen, Simms, Ciaran, Ventresque, Anthony, West, Stephen W., Wilson, Fiona.
2025.
Decoding the Tackle: Using a Machine Learning Approach to Understand Direct Head Contact Events in Elite Women’s Rugby.
European Journal of Sport Science, 25(8), e70018.
doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsc.70018.
Duran, Mat{'i}as, Laurent, Thomas, Rushe, Ellen, Ventresque, Anthony.
2025.
Metamorphic Testing for Pose Estimation Systems.
In: 2025 IEEE Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation (ICST).
doi: 10.1109/ICST62969.2025.10988919.
2024
Doyle, Jordan, Laurent, Thomas, Ventresque, Anthony.
2024.
PADRAIG: Precise Android Automated Input Generation.
In: 2024 IEEE 24th International Conference on Software Quality, Reliability and Security (QRS).
doi: 10.1109/QRS62785.2024.00017.
Ahmad, Syed Saeed, Kenny, Joe, Mahdinejad, Mahsa, Murphy, Aidan, Ventresque, Anthony.
2024.
Optimising a~Peer Based Learning Environment.
In: Generative Intelligence and Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Springer Nature Switzerland.
Holmes, R, Rushe, E, Ventresque, A.
2024.
The Key Points: Using Feature Importance to Identify Shortcomings in Sign Language Recognition Models.
In: Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024).
doi: 10.2024.lrec-main.1387.
Louren{c c}o, N, Mahdinejad, M, Murphy, Aidan, Ventresque, A.
2024.
An investigation into structured grammatical evolution initialisation.
Springer Genet Program Evolvable.
doi: 10.1007/s10710-024-09498-y.
Connors, W, Rushe, E, Ventresque, A.
2024.
Frisbees and Dogs: Domain Adaptation for Object Detection with Limited Labels in Rugby Data.
doi: 10.3233/FAIA241066.
Nallur, Vivek, Saber, Takfarinas, Tao, Ning, Ventresque, Anthony.
2024.
Grammar-obeying program synthesis: A novel approach using large language models and many-objective genetic programming.
Computer Standards & Interfaces, 92, 103938.
doi: 10.1016/j.csi.2024.103938.
Nallur, Vivek, Saber, Takfarinas, Tao, Ning, Ventresque, Anthony.
2024.
Enhancing Program Synthesis with Large Language Models Using Many-Objective Grammar-Guided Genetic Programming.
Algorithms, 17, 287.
doi: 10.3390/a17070287.
Connors, W, Dane, K, Sharief, H, Simms, C, van Dyk, N, Ventresque, A, West, S, Wilson, F.
2024.
Are recommended tackle techniques associated with superior performance outcomes? A retrospective video analysis study of elite women’s rugby union.
/Journal of sports Sciences.
doi: 10.1080/02640414.2024.2434799.
2023
Hoehing, N, Rushe, E, Ventresque, A.
2023.
What’s left can’t be right – The remaining positional incompetence of contrastive vision-language models.
In: Knowledge and Logical Reasoning in the Era of Data-driven Learning co-located with International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML).
doi: 10.48550/arXiv.2311.11477.
Saber, Takfarinas, Tao, Ning, Ventresque, Anthony.
2023.
Program Synthesis with Generative Pre-trained Transformers and Grammar-Guided Genetic Programming Grammar.
In: 2023 IEEE Latin American Conference on Computational Intelligence (LA-CCI).
doi: 10.1109/LA-CCI58595.2023.10409384.
Louren{c c}o, Nuno, Murphy, Aidan, Ventresque, Anthony.
2023.
Initialisation in Structured Grammatical Evolution.
In: Proceedings of the Companion Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation, Association for Computing Machinery.
doi: 10.1145/3583133.3596412.
2022
Gaffney, Stephen, Laurent, Thomas, Ventresque, Anthony.
2022.
Re-visiting the coupling between mutants and real faults with Defects4J 2.0.
In: 2022 IEEE International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation Workshops (ICSTW), IEEE.
Saber, Takfarinas, Tao, Ning, Ventresque, Anthony.
2022.
Multi-objective Grammar-guided Genetic Programming with Code Similarity Measurement for Program Synthesis.
doi: 10.1109/CEC55065.2022.9870312.
Birhane, Abeba, Flowers, Johnathan, L. Dancy, Christopher, Laurent, Thomas, Ruane, Elayne, S. Brown, Matthew, Ventresque, Anthony.
2022.
The Forgotten Margins of AI Ethics.
In: 2022 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency, Association for Computing Machinery.
doi: 10.1145/3531146.3533157.
Laurent, Thomas, Murphy, Aidan, Ventresque, Anthony.
2022.
The Case for Grammatical Evolution in Test Generation.
In: Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference Companion, Association for Computing Machinery.
doi: 10.1145/3520304.3534042.
Saber, Takfarinas, Tao, Ning, Ventresque, Anthony.
2022.
Assessing Similarity-Based Grammar-Guided Genetic Programming Approaches for~Program Synthesis.
In: Optimization and Learning, Springer International Publishing.
2020
Kenny, J, Normand, JM, Thiaville, E, Ventresque, A.
2020.
Virtual Avatars as Children Companions For a VR-based Educational Platform: How Should They Look Like.
In: 30th International Conference on Artificial Reality and Telexistence & 25th Eurographics Symposium on Virtual Environments.
doi: 10.2312/egve.20201263.
Farrell, S, Ruane, E, Ventresque, A.
2020.
User Perception of Text-Based Chatbot Personality.
doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-68288-0_3.
Kenny, Joe, Normand, Jean-Marie, Thiaville, Elsa, Ventresque, Anthony.
2020.
Virtual Avatars as Children Companions : For a VR-based Educational Platform: How Should They Look Like.
In: ICAT-EGVE 2020 - International Conference on Artificial Reality and Telexistence and Eurographics Symposium on Virtual Environments.
Available at: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03068405.
Cachard, C{^o}me, Saber, Takfarinas, Ventresque, Anthony.
2020.
RONIN: a SUMO Interoperable Mesoscopic Urban Traffic Simulator.
In: IEEE 18th International Conference on Smart City.
doi: 10.1109/HPCC-SmartCity-DSS50907.2020.00145.
Laurent, T, Ventresque, A, Wall, F.
2020.
On the impact of timeouts and JVM crashes in Pitest.
In: 15th International Workshop on Mutation Analysis, Co-located with ICST.
doi: 10.1109/ICSTW50294.2020.00050.
Bean, Dan, Ruane, Elayne, Smith, Ross, Tjalve, Michael, Ventresque, Anthony.
2020.
Developing a Conversational Agent with a Globally Distributed Team: An Experience Report.
In: Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Global Software Engineering, Association for Computing Machinery.
doi: 10.1145/3372787.3390430.
Capatina, Laurentiu, Saber, Takfarinas, Ventresque, Anthony.
2020.
Analysis of Urban Traffic Incidents Through Road Network Features.
In: 2020 IEEE 22nd International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications; IEEE 18th International Conference on Smart City; IEEE 6th International Conference on Data Science and Systems (HPCC/SmartCity/DSS).
doi: 10.1109/HPCC-SmartCity-DSS50907.2020.00144.