Takfarinas Saber

I am a Lecturer/Assistant Professor in the School of Computer Science at University of Galway. I am also a Funded-Investigator in Lero, the Science Foundation Ireland Research Centre for Software.

My area of expertise is in the optimisation of Complex Software Systems such as Cloud Computing, Distributed Systems, and Wireless Communication Networks. I design and apply novel Artificial Intelligence techniques from Operations Research, Machine Learning, and Evolutionary Computation/Learning to advance the Engineering and Testing of such systems and enhance their Performance and Trustworthiness.

Previously, I have held the position of Lecturer/Assistant Professor at both the School of Computer Science, University College Dublin (UCD) and the School of Computing, Dublin City University (DCU). I have also held a Post-doctoral Researcher position at the Natural Computing Research & Applications Group located in Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School, UCD.

I obtained my PhD in Computer Science in 2017 from UCD, Ireland. My PhD topic is Multi-objective Optimisation of Large-Scale Data Centres: I designed multi-objective meta-heuristics to satisfy complex requirements of capital allocators when deploying their software on Data Centres.

I obtained my BSc in Computer Science in 2011 and my MSc in Computer Science, track: Optimisation In Operations Research in 2013 from the University of Nantes, France.