Summary

I am an Associate Professor (Senior Lecturer) in the Computational Optimisation Group (COG) within the Department of Computing, supported by the BASF / RAEng Senior Research Fellowship in Scale-Bridging Modelling and Optimisation. My research focuses on optimization and learning methods for sequential decision making under uncertainty, with particular emphasis on mixed-integer programming and statistical learning. I apply these methods to domains such as chemical engineering, artificial intelligence, process scheduling and control, demand-side management, and energy systems.

Available Positions

Funded PhD Position in Optimisation and Machine Learning

Recent News

• Oct 2025: Welcome Ben Stewart and Lucy Anthony to the group as PhD students!
• July 2025: We presented two papers at ICML in Vancouver EARL-BO: Reinforcement Learning for Multi-Step Lookahead, High-Dimensional Bayesian Optimization by Mujin Cheon and Certification for Differentially Private Prediction in Gradient-Based Training by Philip Sosnin and Matt Wicker
• March 2025: Dr Lavinia Ghilardi joins the group. Welcome!
• Jan 2025: Celebrating the new year at the F1 Arcade with the van der Wilk group!

• Sept 2024: Dr Gabriel Patrón joins the group. Welcome!
• March 2024: I began the BASF/Royal Academy of Engineering Senior Research Fellowship in Scale-Bridging Modelling and Optimisation
• Oct 2023: Starting the autumn by welcoming PhD students, Becky, Phil, and Yilin!

• Sept 2023: Antonio (UC3M) and Mujin (KAIST) join the group as visitors. Welcome!