Professor Mark Wallace
MA Oxford (UK), MSc London (UK), PhD Southampton (UK)Professor
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Research interest:- Constraint programming
- Hybrid algorithms
- Industrial applications of combinatorial optimisation
Biography:Mark Wallace holds an MA in Mathematics and Philosophy from Oxford University, an MSc Artificial Intelligence from the University of London, and a PhD from Southampton University which was published in 1983 as the book, "Communicating with Databases in Natural Language". Hoping to master a second language, he moved to the European Computer-Industry Research Centre in Munich, where he discovered Constraint Logic Programming (CLP). Returning to the UK after ten years, he spent another decade at Imperial College London, leading the ECLiPSe CLP team. Besides its use for research and teaching in some 500 organisations worldwide, ECLiPSe is exploited for building commercial software. In particular ECLiPSe is embedded in Cisco's MPLS Tunnel Builder Pro. Mark has always been interested in applied research. He spent 21 years at the UK computer manufacturer ICL, moving from worldwide marketing, to development, and finally to research. At Imperial College he led major collaborations with British Airways and the Royal Automobile Club. His current research interest is in the hybridisation of different techniques and algorithms tailored to large scale industrial combinatorial problems. The aim is to simplify the task of decomposing an optimisation problem into subproblems that can be efficiently solved with different techniques, and to combine those techniques into a tailored algorithm that solves the whole problem. Back to staff list Update your details |
