Summary
Jonathan Fieldsend is a Professor of Computational Intelligence at the University of Exeter with over two decades of research and teaching experience in multi-objective optimisation, machine learning, pattern recognition, and data visualisation. He combines industrial collaboration—working with organisations such as Motorola, NATS and Oxford Instruments—with a strong publication record of 100+ peer-reviewed papers that advance both theory and applied practice. Having progressed through academic ranks from Research Fellow to Professor, he brings deep experience translating nature-inspired computation into real-world solutions across sectors like aviation, utilities and engineering. A seasoned educator nominated multiple times for teaching awards, he also blends an economics background with a PhD in Computer Science, offering a rare mix of quantitative rigor and applied systems thinking.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Economics, BA, Economics at Durham University
PhD, Computer Science, PhD, Computer Science at University of Exeter
MSc, Computational Intelligence, MSc, Computational Intelligence at University of Plymouth