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Welcome to my home page. Below is my brief biography. Feel free to use it.

I am the Deputy Vice Chancellor (Research & Quality Assurance) at MILA University, Malaysia.

I was the Vice-Provost for Research and Knowledge Exchange at the University of Nottingham Malaysia (UNM) from 2011 to 2016. I was then fortunate enough to be asked to head up the campus as Provost/CEO (2016-2021). I was also a Pro-Vice Chancellor of the (global) University of Nottingham.

Prior to my current appointment I was the Chief Executive of the Good Capitalism Forum (GCF) and a Senior Vice President of the overarching group - both of these roles were based in Malaysia.

Prior to moving to Malaysia (in 2011), I was a Professor (Computer Science) at the University of Nottingham. I did my PhD at Nottingham (1997-2000) and took on an academic role part way through my PhD - meaning I spent over 20 years at the University, split almost equally between the UK and Malaysia.

I started my career as a computer operator, rising to hold senior positions in the Information Technology sector. I was a fellow of both the British Computer Society and the Operational Research Society, which I stepped back from when I left academia in 2021. I still hold honorary and distinguished professorial positions at universities in Hong Kong and India.

I have a 1st class degree in Computation from the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST) - which haw merged with the University of Manchester. I obtained my PhD in Computer Science at the University of Nottingham where my research focussed on solving real world problems through the use of Operations Research, and utilising Artificial Intelligence methods which are based on Charles Darwin’s principles of natural evolution.

I have written about 300 peer reviewed papers and have served on several editorial boards including being the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions of Computational Intelligence and AI in Games and an Associate Editor of the Journal of the Operational Research Society.

In addition to my research interests in Operations Research and Artificial Intelligence, I have now developed an interest in publication ethics and bibliometrics, including predatory publishing.

Research Interests

Methodologies: Operations Research (OR), Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), Evolutionary Computation (EC), Meta/Hyper-heuristics

Domains: Scheduling, Logistics, Vehicle Routing, Meta & Hyper-heuristics and Games, specifically to address real world problems

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