Profile
Overview
Mike graduated his degree in Computer Science from the University of Exeter in 2011, where he investigated Genetic Algorithm (GA) methods for tackling the traveling salesman problem. He completed his PhD in Computer Science in 2015 also from the University of Exeter, where he investigated the use of Genetic Programming (GP) for the creation of Cellular Automata (CA) state transition rules. This work investigated the GPCA method’s use for theoretical CA such as the Game of Life, and also for Real-world systems, specifically Urban flood modelling. In his thesis, he also investigated the use of highly parallel hardware in multi-core CPU and many-core GPU, using the OpenMP and OpenCL API's respectively. He now continues his work with the Centre for Water Systems within the University of Exeter, with a Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) project were he is responsible for, and contributes the CADDIES framework, and its integration in to industrial partner’s systems, while also furthering research in the area of high speed modelling.
During his time with the Centre for Water Systems, and Mike has worked with colleagues on a number of other projects including: Dr Andrew Duncan – RAPIDS projects - Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) for sewer system flood prediction, Dr Ed Keedwell and Dr Ahmed Kheiri – SEQA – Sequence Analysis based hyper-heuristics for water distribution systems, Luis De Sousa - Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (EAWAG) – CADDIES – Hexagonal grid API.
Student outreach, and research activities:
Mike has been a supervisor for young adults attending the SmallPeice Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence (AI) course at Exeter university since 2011, where young engineers are introduced to Ai through fun activities such as Big-Tracks Robots, Lego Mind-Storm Robots, and RoboCode challenges. Mike has also been active in the Computer Science dept.’s undergraduate open days since 2011, demonstrating CA projects, Pi-Bot, and once again supervising team RoboCode challenges. Mike also assisted with the 2011 Loebner Prize in AI, which sets the world’s best Ai against the Turing Test.
Teaching:
Mike has been a teaching assistant and coursework marker for a number of undergraduate course, over several years.
ECM1408/09 - Programming for Science/Business (Teaching Python coding) 2011-2015
ECM3412 – Nature inspired computation (ANN and GA concepts) 2012-2015
Spare Time/Hobbies/Research interests:
Mike enjoys playing badminton and swimming, and even cooking cakes in his spare time. Current side project including a Pi-Bot (and machine learning possibilities), learning to the use the games engine Unity, Virtual Reality through mobile smart phones.
Publications
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2022
- Bedford MD, Foster PJ, Gibson MJ, Chen AS. (2022) Modelling flooding due to runoff from spoil heaps during heavy rainfall, Mining Technology, volume 131, no. 4, pages 239-248, DOI:10.1080/25726668.2022.2143645. [PDF]
- Peleg N, Ban N, Gibson MJ, Chen AS, Paschalis A, Burlando P, Leitão JP. (2022) Mapping storm spatial profiles for flood impact assessments, Advances in Water Resources, volume 166, pages 104258-104258, article no. 104258, DOI:10.1016/j.advwatres.2022.104258. [PDF]
2021
- Webber JL, Balbi M, Lallemant D, Gibson MJ, Fu G, Butler D, Hamel P. (2021) Towards Regional Scale Stormwater Flood Management Strategies through Rapid Preliminary Intervention Screening, Water, volume 13, no. 15, pages 2027-2027, DOI:10.3390/w13152027. [PDF]
2020
- Faridani F, Bakhtiari S, Faridhosseini A, Gibson M, Farmani R, Lasaponara R. (2020) Estimating flood characteristics using geomorphologic flood index with regards to rainfall intensity-duration-frequency-area curves and CADDIES-2D model in three Iranian basins, Sustainability, no. 18, article no. 7371, DOI:10.3390/su12187371.
- Vamvakeridou-Lyroudia L, Chen A, Khoury M, Gibson M, Kostaridis A, Stewart D, Wood M, Djordjevic S, Savic D. (2020) Assessing and visualising hazard impacts to enhance the resilience of Critical Infrastructures to urban flooding, Science of the Total Environment, volume 707, DOI:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.136078.
2019
- Gibson MJ, Chen AS, Khoury M, Vamvakeridou-Lyroudia LS, Stewart D, Wood M, Savić DA, Djordjević S. (2019) Case study of the cascading effects on critical infrastructure in Torbay coastal/pluvial flooding with climate change and 3D visualisation, Journal of Hydroinformatics, volume 22, no. 1, pages 77-92, DOI:10.2166/hydro.2019.032. [PDF]
2018
- Vamvakeridou-Lyroudia LS, Chen AS, Khoury M, Gibson MJ, Kostaridis A, Stewart D, Wood M, Djordjevic S, Savic DA. (2018) Enhancing the resilience of interconnected critical infrastructures to urban flooding: An integrated approach, 1st International WDSA / CCWI 2018 Joint Conference.
- Khoury M, Vamvakeridou-Lyroudia L, Gibson MJ, Chen A, Savic D. (2018) A Serious Game Designed to Explore and Understand the Complexities of Flood Mitigation Options in Urban–Rural Catchments, water, volume 10(12), DOI:10.3390/w10121885.
- Webber JL, Gibson MJ, Chen AS, Savic D, Fu G, Butler D. (2018) Rapid assessment of surface-water flood-management options in urban catchments, Urban Water Journal, volume 15, no. 3, pages 210-217, DOI:10.1080/1573062X.2018.1424212.
2017
- Sousa LMD, Chen AS, Gibson MJ, Savic DA, Leitão JP. (2017) Exploring the advantages of hexagonal rasters for flood modelling using cellular automata, 14th IWA/IAHR International Conference on Urban Drainage.
2016
- Gibson MJ, Savić DA, DJordjević S, Chen AS, Fraser S, Watson T. (2016) Accuracy and computational efficiency of 2D urban surface flood modelling based on cellular automata, 12th International Conference on Hydroinformatics, HIC 2016, Incheon, South Korea, 21st - 26th Aug 2016, 2th International Conference on Hydroinformatics (HIC 2016) - Smart Water for the Future, volume 154, pages 801-810, DOI:10.1016/j.proeng.2016.07.409.
2015
- Gibson MJ. (2015) Genetic programming and cellular automata for fast flood modelling on multi-core CPU and many-core GPU computers. [PDF]
- Kheiri A, Keedwell E, Gibson MJ, Savic D. (2015) Sequence Analysis-based Hyper-heuristics for Water Distribution Network Optimisation, Procedia Engineering, volume 119, pages 1269-1277, DOI:10.1016/j.proeng.2015.08.993. [PDF]
2014
- Gibson M, Keedwell EC, Savic D. (2014) An investigation of the efficient implementation of Cellular Automata on multi-core CPU and GPU hardware, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, DOI:10.1016/j.jpdc.2014.10.011.
- Gibson M, Keedwell EC, Savic D. (2014) Genetic Programming for Cellular Automata Urban Inundation Modelling, 11th International Conference on Hydroinformatics, New York, 17th - 21st Aug 2014.
2013
- Gibson M, Keedwell EC, Savic D. (2013) Understanding the efficient parallelisation of Cellular Automata on CPU and GPGPU hardware, Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, Amsterdam, 5th - 10th Jul 2013.
2012
- Guidolin M, Duncan A, Ghimire B, Gibson M, Keedwell EC, Djordjevic S, Savic D. (2012) CADDIES: A NEW FRAMEWORK FOR RAPID DEVELOPMENT OF PARALLEL CELLULAR AUTOMATA ALGORITHMS FOR FLOOD SIMULATION, 10th International Conference on Hydroinformatics, Hamburg, Germany, 14th - 18th Jul 2012.