Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Noor Awad

Postal address
Institut für InformatikAlbert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg
Sekretariat Hutter/Maschinelles Lernen
Georges-Köhler-Allee 074
79110 Freiburg, Germany
Fax
+49 761 203-74217Office
Building 74, Room 00-012About
Since Dec 2018 I have been a postdoctoral research fellow at the machine learning group under the supervision of Frank Hutter. Before that I completed my PhD degree in computer engineering from Nanyang Technological University.
Research Interests
I am interested in all facets of evolutionary computation. My research focuses on how to use evolutionary algorithms to solve optimization problems and many real-world applications. More precisely my research areas include:
- Numerical Optimization
- Hyperparameter Optimization
- Meta Learning
- Automated Machine Learning
- Fairnes in ML
Publications
2021 |
HPOBench: A Collection of Reproducible Multi-Fidelity Benchmark Problems for HPO Inproceedings In: Proceedings of the Neural Information Processing Systems Track on Datasets and Benchmarks, 2021. |
DEHB: Evolutionary Hyberband for Scalable, Robust and Efficient Hyperparameter Optimization Inproceedings In: Proceedings of the Thirtieth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI'21), ijcai.org, 2021. |
2020 |
Squirrel: A Switching Hyperparameter Optimizer Description of the entry by AutoML.org & IOHprofiler to the NeurIPS 2020 BBO challenge Journal Article In: arXiv:2012.08180 [cs.LG], 2020, (Optimizer description for the NeurIPS 2020 BBO competition. Squirrel won the competition´s warm-starting friendly leaderboard.). |
Learning Step-Size Adaptation in CMA-ES Inproceedings In: Proceedings of the Sixteenth International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving from Nature (PPSN'20), 2020. |
Differential Evolution for Neural Architecture Search Inproceedings In: Proceedings of the 1st workshop on neural architecture search(@ICLR'20), 2020. |
2019 |
An Evolution Strategy with Progressive Episode Lengths for Playing Games Inproceedings In: Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI’19), 2019. |
Neural Architecture Evolution in Deep Reinforcement Learning for Continuous Control Journal Article In: NeurIPS 2019 Workshop on Meta-Learning, 2019. |