Dr Marc Roper
Reader
Computer and Information Sciences
Personal statement
My research is primarily focused on the area of software engineering, and in particular the development and evaluation of techniques to support the construction and evolution of more reliable and robust software systems. A common theme in much of this work is the application of machine learning to software engineering problems; for example, to automatically generate program test data, predict software project costs, perform intrusion detection, identify the root location of faults within systems, and automatically detect software system failures. The latter of these in particular makes extensive use of a range of both semi-supervised and unsupervised (clustering) machine learning algorithms to detect anomalous entries in large very high-dimensional and complex data sets. More recently I have also been turning my attention to the converse problem of testing AI systems.
My expertise and interests in machine learning extend outside the software engineering domain and I have employed clustering and classification algorithms in a variety of other contexts such as the automatic identification of potential road accident blackspots from crowdsourced smartphone sensor data, and the detection of objects within images.
I also have extensive experience of using machine learning in a variety of industrial projects such as forecasting customer buyer behaviour, predicting building energy performance, and modelling interventions to combat sedentary behaviour.
Area of Expertise
- Software Engineering (particularly design, testing and debugging)
- Data Analytics
- Machine Learning
- Conducting empirical studies of software engineering techniques and processes
- Search-based software engineering
- Software analytics (static analysis, dynamic analysis and repository mining)
Prize And Awards
- Best paper award
- Recipient
- 21/9/2023
Publications
- Development and validation of a digital biomarker predicting acute kidney injury following cardiac surgery on an hourly basis
- Lapp Linda, Roper Marc, Kavanagh Kimberley, Schraag Stefan
- JTCVS Open Vol 16, pp. 540-581 (2023)
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.xjon.2023.09.023
- The cost of quality of service : SLA aware VNF placement and routing using column generation
- Murray Andrew, Arulselvan Ashwin, Roper Marc, Cashmore Michael, Mohalik Swarup Kumar, Burdick Ian, David Sushanth
- Proceedings of 2023 13th International Workshop on Resilient Networks Design and Modeling (RNDM) 13th International Workshop on Resilient Networks Design and Modeling
International Workshop on Resilient Networks Design and Modeling (RNDM) (2023) - https://doi.org/10.1109/RNDM59149.2023
- Dynamic prediction of patient outcomes in the intensive care unit : a scoping review of the state-of-the-art
- Lapp Linda, Roper Marc, Kavanagh Kimberley, Bouamrane Matt-Mouley, Schraag Stefan
- Journal of Intensive Care Medicine Vol 38, pp. 575-591 (2023)
- https://doi.org/10.1177/08850666231166349
- Beyond the clinic : maximum free-living stepping as a potential measure of physical performance
- Speirs Craig, Dunlop Mark D, Roper Marc, Granat Malcolm
- Sensors Vol 23 (2023)
- https://doi.org/10.3390/s23146555
- A column generation approach to correlated simple temporal networks
- Murray Andrew, Arulselvan Ashwin, Cashmore Michael, Roper Marc, Frank Jeremy
- Proceedings of the Thirty-Third International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling The Thirty-Third International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling Proceedings of the International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling Vol 33, pp. 295-303 (2023)
- https://doi.org/10.1609/icaps.v33i1.27207
- Definition and classification of postoperative complications after cardiac surgery : a pilot Delphi study
- Lapp Linda, Bouamrane Matt-Mouley, Roper Marc, Kavanagh Kimberley, Schraag Stefan
- JMIR Perioperative Medicine Vol 5 (2022)
- https://doi.org/10.2196/39907
Teaching
Over my career I have taught a lare range of classes, from 1st year undergraduate to postgraduate, mainly on areas related to programming, software engineering, software design, data analytics and machine learning.
My main current teaching responsibilities are:
- CS409: Software Architecture and Design (jointly with Dr. Murray Wood) [syllabus and myplace page]
- CS547: Advanced Topics in Software Engineering [syllabus and myplace page]
- CS971: Evolutionary Computation For Finance [syllabus and myplace page]
- CS985/CS985 (Fundamentals of) Machine Learning for Data Analytics [syllabus and myplace page]
I am also responsible for overseeing the MEng final year group project:
- CS546: Group Project [syllabus]
Research Interests
- Software engineering
- Machine Learning
Professional Activities
- Chief External Examiner, Heriot-Watt University, School of Mathematical and Computer Science
- Examiner
- 2023
- Clinical Trials Data Workshop
- Organiser
- 17/11/2022
- IEEE International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Testing (AITest)
- Chair
- 23/8/2021
- IEEE International Conference On Artificial Intelligence Testing (AITest)
- Chair
- 3/8/2020
- IEEE International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Testing (AITest)
- Chair
- 4/4/2019
- External Examiner for PGT programme, Department of Informatics, King’s College London,
- Examiner
- 2019
Projects
- KTP - Coolside Ltd t/a Trtl. Development of a platform to proactively determine and address ongoing counterfeiting and unauthorised product distribution
- Roper, Marc (Principal Investigator) Dickson, Alexander (Co-investigator) Wallace, William (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2022 - 28-Jan-2025
- AI and blockchain for construction, mining and infrastructure companies - Hypervine / Data Lab
- Roper, Marc (Principal Investigator) Roberts, Jen (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2022 - 31-Jan-2022
- Providing confidence to encourage active travel through the application of AI
- Dunlop, Mark (Principal Investigator) Roper, Marc (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2020 - 28-Jan-2021
- Maths DTP 2020 University of Strathclyde | Murray, Andrew
- Roper, Marc (Principal Investigator) Arulselvan, Ashwin (Co-investigator) Murray, Andrew (Research Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2020 - 01-Jan-2024
- KTP - Maru Syngro
- Barlow, Euan (Principal Investigator) Revie, Matthew (Co-investigator) Roper, Marc (Co-investigator)
- 15-Jan-2018 - 14-Jan-2020
- Optimising Industrial Service Workforces using Mobile App Data
- Roper, Marc (Principal Investigator) Minisci, Edmondo (Co-investigator) Riccardi, Annalisa (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2018 - 01-Jan-2019
Contact
Dr
Marc
Roper
Reader
Computer and Information Sciences
Email: marc.roper@strath.ac.uk
Tel: 548 2956