Richard is Associate Dean for Business Engagement, Civic & Cultural Partnerships of the Faculty of Humanities, and Professor of Applied Artificial Intelligence at The University of Manchester. 

He is also co-Lead of the North West Productivity Forum, External Examiner for Warwick Business School, Senior Member of the IEEE, Vice-Chair of the IEEE Bioinformatics and Bioengineering Technical Committee, Editorial Board Member of several international journals, Senior Scientist at Eharo, and AI Advisor for Guru AI (an AI-driven music education spin-out) and River Capital, a private equity business managing the first dedicated AI fund in the North of UK. 

Prior to Manchester, he was Honorary Lecturer and Research Associate 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.

• Professor of Applied Artificial Intelligence, Alliance Manchester BusinessSchool, The University of Manchester
• Associate Dean for Business Engagement, Civic and Cultural Partnerships, Faculty of Humanities 
• AI Advisor, Guru AI
• Senior Scientist - Artificial Intelligence, Applied AI & Decision Science Specialist, Eharo Ltd
• Advisory Board Member, River Capital
• External Examiner, Warwick Business School
• AMBS Representative at the CDT in Data Analytics & 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