Newcastle University

Qualifications

PhD in Chemical and Process Engineering (area: evolutionary computation and multivariate statistics).
M.Eng in Chemical and Process Engineering.

Honours and Awards

ICI prize for best paper in the journal Trans. Inst. Measurement & Control (2000).

• Searson DP, Willis MJ, Wright A. Reverse Engineering Chemical Reaction Networks from Time Series Data. In: Dehmer, M., Varmuza, K., Bonchev, D, ed. Statistical Modelling of Molecular Descriptors in QSAR/QSPR. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH, 2012, pp.327-348.
• Searson DP, Leahy DE, Willis MJ. Predicting the toxicity of chemical compounds using GPTIPS: a free open source genetic programming toolbox for MATLAB. In: Ao, S-I., Castillo, O., Huang, X, ed. Intelligent Control and Computer Engineering. Netherlands: Springer, 2011, pp.83-93.
• Hii C, Searson DP, Willis MJ. Evolving toxicity models using multigene symbolic regression and multiple objectives. International Journal of Machine Learning and Computing 2011, 1(1), 30-35.
• Searson DP, Leahy DE, Willis MJ. GPTIPS: An Open Source Genetic Programming Toolbox For Multigene Symbolic Regression. In: International MultiConference of Engineers and Computer Scientists 2010 (IMECS). 2010, Kowloon, Hong Kong: Newswood Ltd.
• Hiden H, Watson P, Leahy D, Cala J, Searson D, Sykora V, Woodman S. Accelerating Chemical Property Prediction with Cloud Computing. In: Microsoft e-Science Workshop. 2010, Berkeley, CA: Microsoft.
• Morrison GA, Searson DP, Willis MJ. Using genetic programming to evolve a team of data classifiers. World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology 2010, (72), 261-264.
• Searson DP. GPTIPS: Genetic Programming and Symbolic Regression for Matlab. [program]. Version 1.02009.
• Mukherjee A, Searson D, Willis M. Improved control of a chaotic reaction system using modified delay co-ordinate feedback. In: Proceedings of 7th Asian Control Conference (ASCC). 2009, Hong Kong, China: IEEE.
• Mukherjee A, Searson DP, Willis MJ, Scott SK. Two-dimensional simple proportional feedback control of a chaotic reaction system. Physical Review E: Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics 2008, 77(4), 046215.
• Burnham SC, Searson DP, Willis MJ, Wright AR. Inference of chemical reaction networks. Chemical Engineering Science 2008, 63(4), 862-873.
• Searson DP, Willis MJ, Montague GA. Co-evolution of non-linear PLS model components. Journal of Chemometrics 2007, 21(12), 592-603.
• Searson DP, Willis MJ, Horne SJ, Wright AR. Inference of chemical reaction networks using hybrid s-system models. Chemical Product and Process Modeling 2007, 2(1).
• English PJ, Searson DP, Willis MJ, Wright AR. Automated inference of chemical reaction networks. In: 6th European Congress of Chemical Engineering (ECCE 6). 2007, Copenhagen, Denmark.
• Mukherjee A, Searson DP, Willis MJ. Characterisation of the dynamic behaviour of Briggs-Rauscher reaction in a fed-batch reactor. In: The Annual Meeting of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE). 2007, Salt Lake City, Utah.
• Mukherjee A, Searson DP, Willis MJ, Wright AR. Control of a chaotic autocatalytic reaction in a continuous stirred tank reactor. In: 6th European Congress of Chemical Engineering (ECCE 6). 2007, Copenhagen, Denmark.
• Burnham SC, Novakovic K, Searson DP, Willis MJ, Wright AR. Deduction of reaction mechanism using data from a robotic workstation. In: National Symposium on Chemical Reaction Engineering (Nascre-2). 2007, Houston, Texas.
• Searson, D. P., Willis, M. J., Home, S., Wright, A. R. S-systems and evolutionary algorithms for the inference of chemical reaction networks from fed-batch reactor experiments. In: CHISA 2006: 17th International Congress of Chemical and Process Engineering. 2006, Prague, Czech Republic: Czech Society of Chemical Engineering.
• Searson DP, Burnham SC, Willis MJ, Wright AR. Identification of chemical reaction mechanism from batch process data. In: Proceedings of the 17th IASTED International Conference on Modelling and Simulation. 2006, Montreal, Quebec, Canada: ACTA Press.
• Mukherjee A, Scott SK, Searson DP, Willis MJ, Wright AR. Control of a chaotic autocatalytic reaction system. In: European Conference on Complex Systems (ECCS '06). 2006, Said Business School, Oxford, UK.
• Burnham, S. C., Searson, D. P., Willis, M. J., Wright, A. R. Towards the automated deduction of chemical reaction mechanism. In: CHISA 2006: 17th International Congress of Chemical and Process Engineering. 2006, Prague, Czech Republic: Czech Society of Chemical Engineering.
• Horne SJ, Searson DP, Willis MJ, Wright AR. Modelling of chemical processes using S-systems. In: 11th APCChe Congress. 2006, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
• Burnham SC, Searson DP, Willis MJ, Wright AR. Towards the automated elucidation of chemical reaction mechanism from batch reactor experiments. In: AIChe Process Development Symposium. 2006, Palm Springs, USA.
• Searson DP, Tham MT. An assessment of an online sensor validation and reconstruction method. In: IAESTD Conf. 2002, Innsbruck, Austria.
• McKay B, Willis M, Searson D, Montague G. Nonlinear continuum regression: an evolutionary approach. Transactions of the Institute of Measurement and Control 2000, 22(2), 125-140.
• Searson DP, Willis MJ, Montague GA. Improving controller performance using genetically evolved structures with co-adaptation. In: 18th IASTED International Conference on Modelling, Identification and Control. 1999, Innsbruck, Austria: ACTA Press.
• McKay B, Willis MJ, Searson DP, Montague GA. Non-linear continuum regression using genetic programming. In: 1st Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO). 1999, Orlando, Florida: Morgan Kaufmann.
• Searson DP, Montague GA, Willis MJ. Chemical process controller design using genetic programming. In: 3rd Annual Conference on Genetic Programming. 1998, Madison, Wisconsin: Morgan Kaufmann.
• Searson DP, Montague GA, Willis MJ. Evolutionary design of process controllers. In: UKACC International Conference on Control. 1998, Swansea, UK: IEE Conference Publications.
• Searson DP, Montague GA. Condition monitoring of a sensor prone to intermittent failure. In: IFAC International Symposium on Advanced Control of Chemical Processes (ADCHEM '97). 1997, Banff, Canada: Elsevier Science.