Welcome to my personal website 👋

🛠️ I’m one of the earliest members of The C++ Alliance and I love building tools that make everyday C++ work smoother. I led the project team for MrDocs, helped bring Boost.URL into the Boost collection, and created the widely used cpp-actions GitHub workflow suite. I’m also the author of Matplot++, a plotting library that keeps powering scientific computing teams around the world. Curious about the rest of my projects? My GitHub profile is open for forks, issues, and PRs.

🧠 My research covers multi-objective optimization, data structures for Pareto fronts, and symbolic evolutionary algorithms—skills that now support modern Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) projects. I hold a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering focused on Computational Intelligence (also an early pillar of ML and AI) plus M.S. and B.S. degrees in Computer Science.

✈️ Before the Alliance, I worked on aircraft engine design at the Rolls-Royce Control & Systems UTC, and I was a Marie Curie researcher within the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme, where I introduced the Aggregation Trees method that still informs modern engineering practice. As a former university professor with more than 50 peer-reviewed publications, I’ve guided graduate research groups, taught C++ from intro to doctoral programs, and champion reproducible science in every project.

🎶 When I’m not coding you’ll usually find me exploring AI-supported, multi-objective techniques for music composition—a line of work that also shaped my Ph.D. thesis—or relaxing in the kitchen 👨‍🍳, playing the guitar 🎸, and chasing after the dog 🦮.