Sophos kagathos
Qualifications
2001–2004
PhD in Computer Science, with highest honours
Supervised by Prof. P. Collard - University of Nice, France
Homology in Genetic Programming: Application to inverse problem solving
1999
Master Degree of Science, with high honours
Supervised by Prof. P. Collard - University of Marne-la-vallee, France
Computer Science, Bio-Informatics
1998
Bachelor Degree of Science, with highest honours
Supervised by Prof. H. Fouchal - University of Reims, France
Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence
Research Experience
Since Jan 2009
Senior Bio-informatics scientist, Permanent position
BioMathematics and BioInformatics Rothamsted Research, UK
Research Area :
◦ Prediction and analysis of Protein Protein Interaction networks
◦ Computational study of Transcription Associated Proteins in Fusarium
Oct 2007-Nov 2008
Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Computer Science University of Auckland, New Zealand
Research Area :
◦ Time divergence estimation with relaxed phylogenetics
◦ Efficient mixing in time constrained tree space
Jan-Sep 2007
Associate Research Fellow
Lab KEDRI Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand
Research Area :
◦ Estimation of Distribution Algorithms for large-scale combinatorial optimization
2005–2006
Postdoctoral Fellow, Funded by the french space agency
Lab CNRS-LOV University of Paris VI, France
Research Area :
Programming, Artificial Neural Networks, Support Vector Machines)
◦ Genetic evolution of Kernels for Support Vector Machines applied to regression
problems
◦ Approximation of conditional probabilities by teams of genetic predictors for Inverse Problem Solving
2001–2004
PhD Student, Funded by the french ministry of research and ACRI-ST
Lab CNRS-I3S University of Nice, France
Research Area :
◦ Inverse problem (aerosols optical properties) solving with teams of genetic predictors
◦ Study of neutrality in Genetic Programming search space
2000–2003
Software and Research engineer, Full time job
Company ACRI-ST Sophia-Antipolis, France
Research Area :
◦ Statistical analysis of environmental data for remote sensing applications
◦ Statistical modeling of the optical degradation of a spatial spectro-imager (satellite MERIS-ENVISAT of the European Space Agency)
Projects :
Tcl/Tk, GeoTIFF, . . .)
◦ SAMAA : Software for Air pollution Modeling and Analysis Activities (Visual,
Fortran , C)
◦ XChange : An automatic file transfer system via Ftp (Visual C++, C, python)
1999
Master degree internship, Funded by the french ministry of research
Lab CNRS-I3S Sophia-Antipolis, France
Research Area :
◦ Proteins secondary structure prediction with a Soft Computing approach
◦ Optimization of NK-landscapes and 0-1 Knapsack problem