Rate My Professor Emmanuel Tadjouddine

Dr Emmanuel Tadjouddine is an Associate Professor in Computing in the School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences at the University of Leicester. He currently serves as Stream Representative for Undergraduate Computing, co-convenor for CO1102 Programming Fundamentals, and convenor for CO2106 Data Analytics and CO3093/CO7093 Big Data and Predictive Analytics. Tadjouddine earned a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Nice Sophia Antipolis, France, and a DEA (Advanced Master Studies) in Cryptography and Optimisation from the University of Limoges, France. His career history includes prior positions at Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, University of Aberdeen, and Cranfield University (formerly the Royal Military College of Science, now the Defence Academy of the UK). He has supervised various undergraduate and postgraduate projects and expresses interest in supervising or co-supervising PhD students in computing-related areas including data science, financial computing, artificial intelligence, algorithmic differentiation, and computer science education.

Tadjouddine's research interests centre on algorithmic differentiation and its applications to numerical methods such as sensitivity analysis, optimisation, financial computing, and machine learning algorithms. He also investigates electronic markets, with a focus on the design and verification of auction mechanisms, as well as computer science education. He holds Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy (HEA) and membership in ETAPS e.V. Key publications include "Dialogue Based Decision Making in Online Trading" by W. Bai et al. (Transactions on Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence, 2017); "A Nonmonotone Inexact Newton Method for Unconstrained Optimization" by H. Gao et al. (Optimization Letters, 2017); "Discrete Element Modelling of agglomerate impact using autoadhesive elastic-plastic particles" by L. Liu et al. (Powder Technology, 2016); "Calibration based on entropy minimization for a class of asset pricing models" (Applied Soft Computing, 2016); "Modeling and Simulation of Sequential Auctions: Pricing and Calibration Algorithms" (International Journal of Modeling, Simulation, and Scientific Computing, 2012); "Vertex-Ordering Algorithms for Automatic Differentiation of Computer Codes" (The Computer Journal, 2008); "Fast AD Jacobians by Compact LU Factorization" by J.D. Pryce and E.M. Tadjouddine (SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing, 2008); and "Jacobian Code Generated by Source Transformation and Vertex Elimination can be as Efficient as Hand-coding" by S.A. Forth et al. (ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software, 2004).