Doctor Laurie Hirsch
Senior Lecturer in Computing
Summary
I am a senior lecturer at Ï㽶ÊÓƵ in the department of computing.
About
I teach in a variety of subject areas including machine learning, programming, database systems and web-based systems.
I enjoy working with students from foundation to PhD level.
My research has been in quite a wide range of topics including an IoT system to process signals coming from the brain,
sentiment analysis on social media data posted by people in a crisis situation and dynamic visualisations of text data using co-occurrence networks.
I am interested in biologically inspired computing with a focus on genetic algorithms and genetic programming.
For some years I have been involved in developing applications for classifying and clustering collections of text documents
using evolved search queries.
Teaching
School of Computing and Digital Technologies
College of Business, Technology and Engineering
Smart computing
Foundation, smart computing.
Python programming, Database Administration and Security, Artificial Intelligence
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- Industry and Innovation Ï㽶ÊÓƵ Institute
Text clustering with evolved search queries
Publications
Journal articles
Hirsch, L., Hirsch, R., & Ogunleye, B. (2025). . Evolutionary Intelligence, 18.
Ogunleye, B., Maswera, T., Hirsch, L., Gaudoin, J., & Brunsdon, T. (2023). . Applied Sciences, 13 (2), 797.
Hirsch, L., & Brunsdon, T. (2018). . Applied Artificial Intelligence, 32 (7-8), 768-784.
Domdouzis, K., Akhgar, B., Andrews, S., & Gibson, H. (2016). . Journal of Systems and Information Technology, 18 (4), 364-382.
Hirsch, L., Saeedi, M., & Hirsch, R. (2005). . Applied Artificial Intelligence: An International Journal, 19 (7), 659-676.
Hirsch, L., Saeedi, M., & Hirsch, R. (2004). Evolving Text Classifiers with Genetic Programming. .
Hirsch, L., Saeedi, M., Cornillon, J., & Litosseliti, L. (2004). . Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 20 (1), 72-80.
Conference papers
Fernandes, C., Zasada-James, J., Adhikari,, K., Ul Hasan, N., Baldwin, J., & Hirsch, L. (2024). . In 4th International Symposium on Sensing and Instrumentation in IoT Era, Azores, Portugal, 29 August 2024 - 30 August 2024. IEEE:
Ogunleye, B., Brunsdon, T., Maswera, T., Hirsch, L., & Gaudoin, J. (2024). . Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, 1-23.
Hirsch, L., Di Nuovo, A., & Prasanna, H. (2021). . In IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, Krakow, Poland (Virutal), 28 June 2021 - 1 July 2021. IEEE:
Haddela, P., Hirsch, L., Gaudoin, J., & Brunsdon, T. (2021). . In 2nd International Conference on Emerging Technologies in Data Mining and Information Security, Kolkata, West Bengal, India, 2 July 2020 - 4 July 2020 (pp. 293-303). Springer:
Kankanamalage, P.H., Hirsch, L., Brunsdon, T., & Gaudoin, J. (2020). . Proceedings of the Future Technologies Conference (FTC) 2020, 790-804.
Baldwin, J., Brunsdon, T., Gaudoin, J., & Hirsch, L. (2018). . International journal on advances in life sciences, 10.
Hirsch, L., & Di Nuovo, A. (2017). . In 2017 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC), Proceedings : 5-8 June 2017, Donostia - San Sebastián, Spain, (pp. 1239-1246). Piscataway, NJ: IEEE:
Robert Wilson, B.M., Khazaei, B., & Hirsch, L. (2017). . 2016 IEEE 17th International Symposium on Computational Intelligence (CINTI).
Robert Wilson, B.M., Khazaei, B., & Hirsch, L. (2016). . 2016 IEEE 4th Workshop on Advances in Information, Electronic and Electrical Engineering (AIEEE).
Andrews, S., & Hirsch, L. (2016). . CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 1637, 1-9.
Hirsch, L., & Andrews, S. (2016). . CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 1637, 19-27.
Robert Wilson, B.M., Khazaei, B., & Hirsch, L. (2016). . In IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing for Emerging Markets, Bangalore, India, 25 November 2015 - 27 November 2015 (pp. 140-145). IEEE:
Robert Wilson, B.M., Khazaei, B., Hirsch, L., & Kannan, S.T. (2015). . In IEEE International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Computing Ï㽶ÊÓƵ (ICCIC), Coimbatore, India, 2014 - 2014. IEEE:
Wilson, B.M.R., Khazaei, B., Hirsch, L., & Kannan, S.T. (2015). CMDSSI: A decision support system for cloud migration for SMEs in India. 2014 IEEE International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Computing Ï㽶ÊÓƵ IEEE Iccic 2014, 293-299.
Gibson, H., Andrews, S., Domdouzis, K., Hirsch, L., & Akhgar, B. (2014). . In 2014 IEEE/ACM 7th International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing, (pp. 690-695). The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers:
Brewster, B., Andrews, S., Polovina, S., Hirsch, L., & Akhgar, B. (2014). . In Hernandez, N., Jäschke, R., & Croitoru, M. (Eds.) Graph-Based Representation and Reasoning, (pp. 275-280). Springer International Publishing:
Domdouzis, K., Andrews, S., Gibson, H., Akhgar, B., & Hirsch, L. (2014). . In Big Data, Intelligence Management and Analytics Workshop (BDIMA 2014), 7th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC 2014), London, 2014 - 2014.
Andrews, S., Akhgar, B., Yates, S., Stedmon, A., & Hirsch, L. (2013). . In Larsen, H.L., Martin-Bautista, M.J., Vila, M.A., Andreasen, T., & Christiansen, H. (Eds.) Flexible Query Answering Systems, (pp. 124-133). Heidelberg: Springer:
Hirsch, L., & Tian, D. (2013). . In 20th International Conference on Conceptual Structures, ICCS 2013, Mumbai, India, 10 January 2013 - 12 January 2013 (pp. 322-331). Berlin: Springer:
Hirsch, L. (2010). . Evolutionary Computation, IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence, 1-8.
Hirsch, L., Saeedi, M., & Hirsch, R. (2007). . In Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, London.
Hirsch, L., Saeedi, M., & Hirsch, R. (2005). . In 8th European Conference, EuroGP 2005, Lausanne, Switzerland, 30 March 2005 - 1 April 2005 (pp. 85-95). Berlin: Springer:
Hirsch, L., & Saeedi, M. . In Proceedings of the Computer Society of Iran Computing Conference 1999.
Robert Wilson, B.M., Khazaei, B., & Hirsch, L. (2016). . In International Symposium of the Analytic Hierarchy Process, London, United Kingdom, 4 August 2016 - 7 August 2016.
Book chapters
Andrews, S., Day, T., Domdouzis, K., Hirsch, L., Lefticaru, R.-.E., & Orphanides, C. (2017). . In Akhgar, B., Staniforth, A., & Waddington, D. (Eds.) Application of social media in crisis management : advanced sciences and technologies for security applications. (pp. 77-96). Springer International Publishing:
Books
Hill, R., Hirsch, L., Lake, P., & Moshiri, S. (2013). . London: Springer.
Theses / Dissertations
Haddela Kankanamalage, P.S. (2023). . (Doctoral thesis). Supervised by Hirsch, L.
Ogunleye, B.O. (2022). . (Doctoral thesis). Supervised by Gaudoin, J., Brunsdon, T., Maswera, T., & Hirsch, L.
Postgraduate supervision
Sentiment analysis, text summarisation, text clustering and classification, text visualisation.