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Research interests: My research focuses on artificial intelligence, especially in areas of optimisation like constraint programming and scheduling. I am particularly interested on the interface between (distributed) optimisation, social choice, game theory and machine learning. What does that mean in practice? For example, how do we divide some contested resources between multiple agents? Or how do we dispatch taxis to incoming jobs, and learn better performance over time? Research groups: I have been program leader, research group leader and scientific director at NICTA, Australia. I am a conjoint professor at the School of CSE in UNSW, as well as external professor at Uppsala University. I currently lead the Algorithmic Decision Theory research group. I am also a member of the COMIC multi-site research group which brings together members of the COconut and the miMIC groups. You can read more in a short online biography. Awards and Grants: 2011-2013, AOARD, $500k, "Lifelong Optimisation". 2009-2011, AOARD, $200k, "Optimisation and Learning". 2002-2007, SFI principal investigator, "Sensitivity Analysis, Solution Stability and Uncertainty in Constraint Programming", Eur 1.5million (project pages) 2002-2003, EPSRC visiting fellowship (investigator), Applying HR to Zariski Spaces, £59k 2001-2004, EU Network of Excellence, CologNet (area coordinator), Automated Reasoning, £40k 2001-2003, EPSRC grant, Stochastic Constraint Programming, £105k 2000-2003, EPSRC grant, Automatic Generation of Implied Constraints, £245k 1999-2004, EPSRC Advanced Research Fellowship, £250k 1999-2002, EPSRC grant, Automatic Conjecture Making in Mathematics, £170k 1996-1999, EPSRC grant, Constrainedness of Computational Problems, £158k 1994-1996, HCM Marie-Curie PostDoc Fellowship, Trento, £70k 1993-1994, HCM Marie-Curie PostDoc Fellowship, Nancy, £35k 1992, Royal Society European Exchange Fellowship, £3k 1991, British Council/CNR award, £3k 1990-1992, SERC PostDoctoral Fellowship, £70k 1983-1986, Open Scholarship, Cambridge, £300 |