Our Company - Advisory Board

Information about members of the Shift Administrators advisory board

Professor Edmund K. Burke

Professor Edmund Burke is Dean of the Faculty of Science at the University of Nottingham and he leads the Automated Scheduling, Optimisation and Planning (ASAP) Research Group in the School of Computer Science. He is a member of the EPSRC Strategic Advisory Team for Mathematics. He is a Fellow of the Operational Research Society and the British Computer Society and he is a member of the UK Computing Research Committee (UKCRC). Prof. Burke is Editor-in-chief of the Journal of Scheduling, Area Editor (for Combinatorial Optimisation) of the Journal of Heuristics, Associate Editor of the INFORMS Journal on Computing, Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation and a member of the Editorial Board of Memetic Computing. Prof. Burke has played a leading role in the organisation of several major international conferences in his research field in the last few years. He has edited/authored 14 books and has published over 180 refereed papers. He has been awarded 47 externally funded grants worth over £11M from a variety of sources including EPSRC, ESRC, BBSRC, EU, Research Council of Norway, East Midlands Development Agency, HEFCE, Teaching Company Directorate, Joint Information Systems Committee of the HEFCs and commercial organisations. This funding portfolio includes being the Principal Investigator on a recently awarded EPSRC Science and Innovation award of £2M, an EPSRC grant of £2.6M to investigate the automation of the heuristic design process and an EPSRC platform grant worth £423K.

Dr. Timothy Curtois

Dr. Timothy Curtois is a research associate in the Automated Scheduling, Optimisation and Planning (ASAP) Research Group in the department of Computer Science at the University of Nottingham. Dr. Curtois is currently involved in several research projects including Next Generation Decision Support: Automating the heuristic design process, and Health Care Optimisation Software for Planning, Rostering, and Scheduling.