Biography

James Montgomery is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Information and Communication Technology at the University of Tasmania, based at the Sandy Bay campus in Hobart. His primary research interest is in heuristic optimisation, including evolutionary computation. He also works in the area of acoustic analysis for biodiversity monitoring (ecoacoustics).

Prior to joining the University of Tasmania in January 2014, James was a research fellow at Australian National University (ANU) (based at National ICT Australia's (NICTA) [now Data61's] Canberra Research Laboratory), designing and implementing a general purpose web API for delivering machine learning services; a postdoctoral researcher at Swinburne University of Technology, working on external projects in data analysis and his own research in evolutionary computation; and a student and sessional lecturer at Bond University.