UoN CS+IT ASAP

Home Teaching Supervision Grants Publications Academics


Funding and MRe/PhD subjects:
  • computational finance (portfolio optimisation, capital budgeting, etc)
  • meta-heuristic search algorithms (hyper-heuristics, local search, evolutionary algorithms, etc)
  • constraint programming hybridised with AI/OR algorithms
  • scheduling, timetabling, nurse rostering, network routing, graph colouring, combinatorial optimisation problems
  • case based reasoning, knowledge-based techniques, data mining
Interested in doing a PhD? Talk to me for more details of possible funding opportunities:
  • China Scholarship Council Research Scholarship, school scholarship, University International Research Scholarship, ORS
  • 2009/10 studentships information is available here. Deadlines are around Feb/March each year.
  • PhD Students

  • Fang He - Integration of Constraint Programming and OR Techniques on timetabling and nurse rostering
  • Nam Pham - Foundamental study on search space of hyper-heuristics for optimisation problems
  • Amr Soghier - Adaptive hyper-heuristics on timetabling problems
  • Huanlai Xing - Resource optimization in network coding based multicast
  • Ying Xu - Meta-heuristics for multicast network routing
  • Yi Wang (visiting PhD) - Supply chain network design
  • Robert Jurcisin (visiting PhD)
  • Joe Obit (co-supervise) - Hyper-heuristics for course timetabling
  • Juan Pedro Castro Gutierrez (co-supervise) - Multi-objective Meta-Heuristics to Complex Combinatorial Problems
  • Geetha Barskaran (external) - Hierarchical methods on nurse rostering problems
  • Siti Khatijah Nor Abdul Rahim (external) - Data pre-processing on problem space of university timetabling problems
  • Nasser R. Sabar (external) - Hyperheuristics in timetabling and optimization
  • Aniza Mohamed Din (co-supervise) - Artificial immune systems on shop scheduling
  • Previous PhD Students and Research Assistants

  • Jingpeng Li - Hybrid meta-heuristics and IP on Nurse Rostering; Research Associate at ASAP Group
  • Tim Curtois - Meta-heuristics on nurse rostering; Research Associate at ASAP Group
  • Adam Eckersley - Case based heuristic selection; Now a research scientist at Newcastle upon Tyne