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Mervyn Ó Luing of the Insight Centre for Data Analytics, CSIT, successfully defended his PhD thesis.
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The School of Computer Science and Information Technology at University College Cork would like to congratulate Mervyn on successfully defending his
PhD research thesis.
Thesis title: Metaheuristics and machine learning for joint stratification
and sample allocation in survey design
Supervisors: Dr Steve Prestwich and Prof. S. Armagan Tarim, Insight Centre,
School of Computer Science & Information Technology and Cork University
Business School, UCC.
Internal Examiner: Dr Nic Wilson, Insight Centre, School of Computer Science
and Information Technology, UCC with Dr John Hayes, Dept. of Electrical &
Electronic Engineering, UCC as Independent Chair.
External Examiner: Dr Ozgur Akgun, University of St. Andrews
Well done Mervyn!