Richard is Business Engagement Lead of Alliance Manchester Business School, Professor of Applied Artificial Intelligence at The University of Manchester, and Turing Fellow at The Alan Turing Institute, UK's national institute for data science and artificial intelligence. He is also an External Examiner at Warwick Business School, University of Warwick, and Advisory Board Member of the first dedicated AI fund in the North of UK, which is managed by local private equity company River Capital. 

Prior to Manchester, he worked at the Biochemical Engineering Department, University College London.  He studied Business Engineering at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology and completed a PhD in Computer Science (Machine Learning & Optimization) at The University of Manchester.

Richard's research interests are in the field of data science and in particular in the development and application of optimization and machine learning techniques to real-world problems arising in areas such as healthcare, manufacturing, engineering, economics, sports, music, and forensics. Much of research has been funded by UK funding bodies (e.g. ESRC, EPSRC, Innovate UK) and industrial partners. 

Richard is a Member of the Editorial Board of several international journals, Vice-Chair of the IEEE CIS Bioinformatics and Bioengineering Technical Committee, Co-Founder of the IEEE CIS Task Force on Optimization Methods in Bioinformatics and Bioengineering, and contributes regularly to conference organisation and special issues as guest editors.

• Professor of Applied Artificial Intelligence, Alliance Manchester Business School (AMBS), The University of Manchester
• Business Engagement Lead, AMBS
• Advisory Board Member, River Capital
• External Examiner, Warwick Business School
• Business Pathway Lead of the MSc in Data Science
• UoM Director of the CDT in Data Analytics & Society
• Research Cluster Lead on Workplace & Organisational Security, Centre for Digital Trust and Society 
• Vice-Chair, IEEE Bioinformatics and Bioengineering Technical Committee 

• BSc and MSc Business Engineering, Karlsruhe Insitute of Technology (KIT) and Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT)
• PhD in Computer Science, University of Manchester
• PGCert in Higher Education, University of Manchester

I am interested in supervising research students in the following areas:

• Multiobjective optimization
• Non-standard optimization and learning problems
• Expensive optimization 
• Merging optimization with machine learning
• Real-world applications of optimization and machine learning
• Decision-support systems