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Mervyn Ó Luing of the Insight Centre for Data Analytics, CSIT, successfully defended his PhD thesis.

The School of Computer Science and Information Technology at University College Cork would like to congratulate Mervyn on successfully defending his
PhD research thesis.
Thesis title: Metaheuristics and machine learning for joint stratification
and sample allocation in survey design
Supervisors: Dr Steve Prestwich and Prof. S. Armagan Tarim, Insight Centre,
School of Computer Science & Information Technology and Cork University
Business School, UCC.
Internal Examiner: Dr Nic Wilson, Insight Centre, School of Computer Science
and Information Technology, UCC with Dr John Hayes, Dept. of Electrical &
Electronic Engineering, UCC as Independent Chair.
External Examiner: Dr Ozgur Akgun, University of St. Andrews
Well done Mervyn!