Staff Lead researcher Dr David Toal Associate Professor Research interests Design optimisation & automation Machine learning & deep learning Computer aided design Connect with David Email: d.j.j.toal@soton.ac.uk Other researchers Professor Andy Keane DSc, FREng Professor of Computational Engineering Connect with Andy Email: andy.keane@soton.ac.uk Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups Computational Engineering and Design Group Our research group is a centre for multidisciplinary engineering simulation and design, combining a range of analytical, computational and experimental techniques.