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Professor Emma Hart is a leading academic at Edinburgh Napier University, affiliated with the School of Computing Engineering and the Built Environment and the Centre for Algorithms, Visualisation and Evolving Systems. Her research focuses on evolutionary computation, swarm robotics, and optimisation algorithms, with applications in ecology, cybersecurity, and AI-driven design.
- Education: 1st Class Honours in Chemistry (Oxford), MSc and PhD in AI (Edinburgh)
- Leadership: Former Editor-in-Chief of Evolutionary Computation (MIT Press, 2017–2023), ACM SIGEVO Board member, and key contributor to Scotland’s AI Strategy (2021).
Her research spans evolutionary robotics, lifelong learning systems, and explainable AI. Recent work includes using novelty search to engineer diverse robot swarms, XAI for algorithm configuration, and LLM-evolved heuristics for bin packing. She explores fitness landscapes and attractor analysis to improve optimisation model robustness.
Scientific Awards include the
- ACM SIGEVO Outstanding Contribution Award (2023)
- Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (2022)
- Bronze Humies Award (2018)
- Best Paper Award@GECCO 2019
She supervises PhD students such as
- Grant Anderson
- Kirsty Montague
- Kelly Hunter
- Magnus Janson
- Fiona Stewart
