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The conclusion should contain an explicit statement saying whether, in your opinion, the thesis and the student´s achievements until now meet the generally accepted requirements for the award of an academic degree (in accordance with Section 47 of Act No. 111/1998 Coll., on higher education institution). Having read the thesis and specific papers published by the students, in my opinion, the thesis and the student´s achievements until now meet the generally accepted requirements for the award of an academic degree (PhD).
The new adaptive fitness predictors are shown able to enhance CGP in relevant medical applications, like continuous monitoring of Parkinson’s patients treated with levodopa. The generated classifiers are reported more efficient in term of precision and energy consumption. The student furthermore extended the applicability by designing a new type of data preprocessor. The quality and the practical applicability of the research is apparent, and the results were published on two top conferences: EvoSTAR, a collection of co-located conferences in Evolutionary Computation; and Parallel Problem Solving from Nature (PPSN). Tackling the problem from a hardware perspective, the students also tackled the design of energy-efficient hardware accelerators for the classifiers of dyskinesia. This result was published in the Design, Automation and Test in Europe (DATE) conference, a top conference focusing on Computer Aided Design, showing that this aspect too has been evaluated positively by the research community. Finally, the student considered the design of an energy-efficient classifier as a multi-objective problem and published the research in the Design and Diagnostics of Electronic Circuits and Systems (DDECS), a wellestablished symposium focused on microelectronic circuit design, testing, and diagnostics. Despite the potential of the approach, I must note that, in my opinion, DDECS has a lower reputation compared to DATE. On an unrelated topic, the student exploit CGP in regression tasks, namely, to quantify the probability of detrimental outcomes, polygenic risk score, or yield potential in plants. Reported results outperformed conventional methodologies. Results were published in IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM), a solid mid-tier conference in the field of computational biology, bioinformatics, and biomedical engineering. Based on the evaluation, I can maintain that both the student’s thesis and achievements meet the requirements for the award of an academic degree.
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