People contributed to constraint research at University of Essex

Staff (in chronological order):

Professor Edward Tsang (Academic Staff, Computer Science Department, edward @essex.ac.uk)

principal grant holder in the GENET, ACS, CACP; and GLS Projects; coordinator of Centre for Computational Finance

Professor Chris Voudouris (Visiting Professor, Ex-PhD student 1994 - 1997, chrisv@info.bt.co.uk)

constraint optimisation, Guided Local Search (Ex-Senior Research Officer in the GENET Project);

now working in British Telecom Research Laboratories, Martlesham, UK

Dr Chang Wang (Ex-academic Staff, Computer Science Department, chwang@lehman.com)

grant holder in the GENET Project

currently working in Lehman Brothers, USA

current interest: financial application of Artificial Intelligence

Professor Jim Doran (Ex-Academic Staff, Computer Science Department, doraj@essex.ac.uk)

grant holder in the GENET and ACS projects

Dr John Ford (Academic Staff, Computer Science Department, fordj@essex.ac.uk)

grant holder in the CACP Project

Dr Paul Scott (Academic Staff, Computer Science Department, scotp@essex.ac.uk)

grant holder in the CACP Project

Dr Abdellah Salhi (Academic Staff, Mathematics Department, as@essex.ac.uk)

research interest: operations research, combinatorial optimisation, evolutionary computation

Dr Qingfu Zhang (Academic Staff, Computer Science Department, qzhang@essex.ac.uk)

research interest: evolutionary computation, neural networks, optimisation algorithms, computational finance and signal processing

Non-staff Researchers (in alphabetical order):

Nathan Barnes (Ex-PhD student, Sponsored by British Telecom)

applying Guided Local Search to vehicle routing and job-shop scheduling

Dr James Borrett (Ex-Senior Research Officer and PhD student March 1994-98, james@gol.co.uk)

adaptive constraint satisfaction, problem formulation (the ACS Project and CACP Project)

Director of Global Optimum Limited and author of Yudoku, a Sudoku puzzle solver and generator.

Richard Bradwell (Ex-Senior Research Officer, CACP Project)

scheduling, heuristic search

James Butler (Ex-PhD Student, james.butler@reuters.com)

applying Genetic Programming to horse-racing and financial forecasting, computational finance

Dr Andrew Davenport (Ex-PhD student 1992-1997, davenport@us.ibm.com)

constraint satisfaction by iterative repair (the GENET Project);

after his PhD, he worked for Mark Fox's Enterprise Integration Laboratory, University of Toronto and then IBM

Peter Fuelling (Ex-MSc Student, pfuell@essex.ac.uk)

project Paradigm: a simulator for British Telecom's workforce allocation system (WMS)

Tim Gosling (PhD Student, October 2001 - , tdbgos@essex.ac.uk)

Distributed scheduling, computer-based negotiation (Sponsored by British Telecom)

Nicholas Hewes (ex-PhD student)

Optimisation (the GLS Project)

Nanlin Jin (PhD student, October 2002 - October 2006)

Bargaining in computational finance

Dr Zeynep Kitziltan (Visiting Scholar, August to September 2000)

Algorithms for the Satisfiability problem

Dr Alvin Kwan (Ex-PhD Student 1992-97, akwan@minddynamic.com.hk)

mapping CSPs to algorithms & heuristics (the ACS Project)

Mathias Kern (Ex-PhD Student, June 2000 - 2005, mkern@essex.ac.uk)

Dynamic scheduling, stochastic search (Sponsored by British Telecom)

Dr Tung Leng Lau (ex-PhD Student 1995-99, tllau@essex.ac.uk)

Genetic Algorithms for constraint optimisation

Dr Jin Li (PhD Student 1996-2000, jlilchen@yahoo.com)

Constraints in Genetic Programming (for computational finance)

Wudong Liu (PhD Student 2005-)

Market-based distributed scheduling (Sponsored by British Telecom)

Andy Lunness (Ex-MSc by Research Student)

applying Genetic Algorithms to constraint optimisation

Patrick Mills (Senior Research Officer and PhD Student, April 1997-2002, millph@essex.ac.uk)

Algorithms for non-binary constraint satisfaction problems, (the CACP Project)

Hassan Rashidi (PhD Student, October 2002 - April 2006, Visiting Academic, April 2006 - hrashi@essex.ac.uk)

Transportation Problems and computational finance

Hanyu Shang (Senior ex-MSc Student, Constraint Satisfaction)

Supply Chain Management

Jianyong Sun (Senior Research Officer, EDA Project)

Evolutionary compuation

Natasha Walsh (Ex-PhD Student 1993-97)

adaptive constraint satisfaction (the ACS Project)

Dr Terry Warwick (Ex-PhD Student 1991-95, warwt@essex.ac.uk)

Genetic Algoithms applied to constraint satisfaction;

now working as a consultant

Richard Williams (Ex-Senior Research Officer, CACP Project, rjw@essex.ac.uk)

Software engineering, machine discovery

Aimin Zhou (PhD student, Multi-objective Optimization Project)

optimization, Estimation of Distribution Algorithms, heuristic search

Dr Kangmin Zhu (Ex-Visiting Scholar, GENET Project)

Last update: 22 March 2002

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