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Personal profile
Biography
Professor Mark Wallace is a leader in discrete optimisation in the Faculty of Information Technology.
Professor Wallace graduated from Oxford University in Mathematics and Philosophy. He worked for the UK computer company ICL for 21 years while completing a Masters degree in Artificial Intelligence at the University of London and a PhD sponsored by ICL at Southampton University. For his PhD, Professor Wallace designed a natural language processing system which ICL turned into a product. He moved to Imperial College in 2002, taking a Chair at Monash University in 2004.
His research interests span different techniques and algorithms for optimisation and their integration and application to solving complex resource planning and scheduling problems. He was a co-founder of the hybrid algorithms research area and is a leader in the research areas of Constraint Programming (CP) and hybrid techniques (CPAIOR). The outcomes of his research in these areas include practical applications in transport optimisation.
He is passionate about modelling and optimisation and the benefits they bring. His focus both in industry and University has been on application-driven research and development, where industry funding is essential both to ensure research impact and to support sufficient research effort to build software systems that are robust enough for application developers to use.
He led the team that developed the ECLiPSe constraint programming platform, which was bought by Cisco Systems in 2004. Moving to Australia, he worked on a novel hybrid optimisation software platform called G12, and founded the company Opturion to commercialise it. He also established the Monash-CTI Centre for optimisation in travel, transport and logistics. He has developed solutions for major companies such as BA, RAC, CFA, and Qantas. He is currently involved in the Alertness CRC, plant design for Woodside planning, optimisation for Melbourne Water, and work allocation for the Alfred hospital.
Monash teaching commitment
Professor Mark Wallace has experience as the Lecturer for the following units in the Faculty of IT:
- FIT5057 Project management
- FIT2006 Business process modelling and workflow
- FIT3022 Intelligent decision support systems
- FIT4010 Advanced topics in algorithms and discrete structures
Education/Academic qualification
Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy, University of Southampton
Award Date: 1 Oct 1983
Computer Science, Master of Science, University of London
Award Date: 1 Jan 1980
Mathematics and Philosophy, Bachelor of Arts, University of Oxford
Award Date: 1 Jan 1977
Research area keywords
- Constraint Programming
- Hybrid Techniques
- Optimisation
- Problem Modelling And Solving
- Transport Applications
Network
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Decision Engine to Support the Path to Net Zero
Wallace, M., Bhattacharya, M., Hansen, P. & Hossain, J.
28/04/22 → 28/10/22
Project: Research
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Sports Home and Away Scheduling
Wallace, M., Senthooran, I. & Dekker, J.
4/12/21 → 31/10/22
Project: Research
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ARC Training Centre in Optimisation Technologies, Integrated Methodologies, and Applications (OPTIMA)
Smith-Miles, K., Stuckey, P., Taylor, P. G., Ernst, A., Aickelin, U., Garcia De La Banda, M., Pearce, A., Wallace, M., Bondell, H., Hyndman, R., Alpcan, T., Thomas, D. A., Anjomshoa, H., Kirley, M. G., Tack, G., Costa, A., Fackrell, M., Zhang, L., Glazebrook, K., Branke, J., O'Sullivan, B., O'Shea, N., Cheah, A., Meehan, A., Wetenhall, P., Bowly, D., Bridge, J., Faka, S., Mareels, I., Coleman, R. A. & Crook, J.
23/09/21 → 23/09/26
Project: Research
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A personalised digital sleep and circadian management tool for human performance.
Kanagalingam, S., Sletten, T., Wilson Rajaratnam, S., McLachlan, G., Howard, M., Corbett, M., Wallace, M. & Postnova, S.
Department of Defence (Australia)
29/06/21 → 12/02/23
Project: Research
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RACE for 2030: Reliable Affordable Clean Energy for 2030 Cooperative Research Centre (RACE for 2030 CRC)
Beins, D., Liebman, A., Bahrani, B., Leroux, A., Kraal, D., Razzaghi, R., Strengers, Y., Goodwin, S., Pink, S., Rudolph, C., Raven, R., Bergmeir, C., Saunderson, J., Leslie, G., Gangadharan, L., Islam, A., Wang, L. C., Ward, M., Xiao, E., Wallace, M., Tack, G., Stuckey, P., Li, Y., Pan, S., de Nijs, F., Buckingham, E., Denis-Ryan, A., Ens, B., Dargaville, R., Chang, X., Yu, J., White, S., Zlatanov, N., Hyndman, R., Panagiotelis, A. & Athanasopoulos, G.
1/07/20 → 30/06/31
Project: Research
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Human-centred feasibility restoration
Senthooran, I., Belov, G., Leo, K., Wybrow, M., Klapperstueck, M., Czauderna, T., Wallace, M. & De La Banda, M. G., 2021, 27th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming. Michel, L. D. (ed.). Dagstuhl Germany: Schloss Dagstuhl, Vol. 210. 18 p. 49. (Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs); vol. 210).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference Paper › Research › peer-review
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On the effectiveness of restarting local search
Aleti, A., Wallace, M. & Wagner, M., Jul 2021, Proceedings of the 2021 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference Companion. Krawiec, K. (ed.). New York NY USA: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), p. 333-334 2 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference Paper › Research › peer-review
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A new constraint programming model and solving for the cyclic hoist scheduling problem
Wallace, M. & Yorke-Smith, N., 9 Nov 2020, In: Constraints. 25, p. 319–337 19 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
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Building Decision Support Systems: using MiniZinc
Wallace, M., 2020, Cham Switzerland: Springer. 221 p.Research output: Book/Report › Book › Research › peer-review
1 Citation (Scopus) -
Core-guided model reformulation
Leo, K., Gange, G., Garcia De La Banda, M. & Wallace, M., 2020, Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming : 26th International Conference, CP 2020 Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, September 7–11, 2020 Proceedings. Simonis, H. (ed.). Cham Switzerland: Springer, p. 445-461 17 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science ; vol. 12333 ).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference Paper › Research › peer-review
Open AccessFile
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Chair - Faculty Research Committee - Faculty of Information Technology, Monash University
Mark Wallace (Chair/ Co-Chair)
2016 → …Activity: External Academic Engagement › Committees and working groups
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Associate Dean (Research) - Faculty of Information Technology, Monash University
Mark Wallace (Executive Member)
2016 → 2018Activity: External Academic Engagement › Committees and working groups
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Member - Senior Leadership Team Professoriate Group - Faculty of Information Technology, Monash University
Mark Wallace (Member)
1 Jan 2011 → 31 Dec 2012Activity: External Academic Engagement › Committees and working groups
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Research Centre Director - CTI-Monash Centre for Optimisation in Travel, Transport and Logistics
Mark Wallace (Chair/ Co-Chair)
1 Jan 2011 → 31 Dec 2012Activity: External Academic Engagement › External research organisation, centre or institute
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Fellow - National ICT Australia (NICTA)
Mark Wallace (Fellow)
1 Jan 2010 → 31 Dec 2014Activity: External Academic Engagement › External research organisation, centre or institute