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I joined Fujitsu Research of Europe Limited, based in the UK, in March 2022 where I now work as a Senior Researcher. My current research area focuses on R&D of applications for quantum circuit simulation at large scale, by taking advantage of different methods and technologies such as tensor networks and exascale supercomputers. At Fujitsu, I have also worked on quantum-inspired computing technologies such as the Digital Annealer for solving Quadratic Unconstrained Binary Optimisation (QUBO) problems. In particular, I contributed to develop a general penalty framework comprising different penalty methods that can automatically find suitable penalty weights for constraint functions, given any constrained optimisation problem that is expressible as QUBO.
From 2021 to 2022, I completed a post-doctoral programme at the University of Exeter in the UK to research penalty methods for QUBO. From January 2017 to June 2021, I completed a PhD degree in Computer Science at the University of Exeter, supervised by Dr Alberto Moraglio and Prof Jonathan Fieldsend. My PhD research area was theoretical Evolutionary Computation, specifically concerning the population behaviour of Evolutionary Algorithms, crossover operators and associated search space structure, as well as Fitness Landscape Analysis.
From 2009 to June 2016, I completed a Computer Engineering Licentiate degree "Licenciado en Ingeniería Informática" at the University of Seville in Spain. This degree corresponds to a 5-year programme in the European Higher Education Area second cycle. My final degree project titled "Adaptive Mutation Factor in Genetic Algorithms", obtained first-class mark and was supervised by Agustín Riscos Núñez (ORCID: 0000-0002-5409-3578). The project's software repository is available online at <https://github.com/marcosdg/darwin>. In 2013, I was an intern for one-semester at the Department of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence at the University of Seville, where I participated in several workshops and brainstorming sessions given by world-leading researchers Gheorghe Păun and Grzegorz Rozenberg.