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Roles at the University of Manchester
  • AMBS Business Engagement Lead, since August 2018 - If you are an external organisation and want to engage with AMBS, then please contact me at richard.allmendinger@manchester.ac.uk
  • Lead Judge for the Business category on the 2019 Venture Further competition, April 2019
  • AMBS Lead for the cross-faculty MSc Data Science program, since August 2018
  • AMBS Lead for the EPSRC-funded CDT in Data Analytics and Society, since January 2017
  • AMBS Reviewer for Maths-related IFYs (International Foundation Years) proposals, since November 2016
  • Emergency Evacuation Marshall (I am the only academic Marshall at AMBS), since December 2015
  • Communication and Seminar Coordinator for the Decision and Cognitive Science Research Centre, 2015 - 2017

External roles
  • Workshop Chair, GECCO 2019, Prague, Czech Republic
  • Technical Chair, CIBCB 2019, Siena, Italy
  • Co-organizer and Chair, GEECO 2019 Workshop on "Evolutionary Computation + Multiple Criteria Decision Making (EC + MCDM)", Prague, Czech Republic (with Tinkle Chugh and Jussi Hakanen)
  • Co-organizer and Chair, MCDM 2019 Special Session on "Data Science meets Multiple Criteria Decision Making", Istanbul, Turkey (with Tinkle Chugh and Jussi Hakanen)
  • Co-organizer, CEC 2019 Special Session on "Optimization, Learning, and Decision-Making in Bioinformatics and Bioengineering", Wellington, New Zealand (with Joseph Brown, Gonzalo Ruz, and Daniel Ashlock)
  • Vice-Chair, IEEE CIS Task Force on "Optimization Methods in Bioinformatics and Bioengineering, since January 2018
  • Proceedings Chair, CIBCB 2018, Saint Louis, Missouri, USA
  • Editor, Dagstuhl Seminar 18031 - Personalized Multiobjective Optimization: An Analytics Perspective, Wadern, Germany, 2018
  • General Chair, CIBCB 2017, Manchester, UK
  • Co-organizer and co-chair, GECCO 2017 Tutorial on "Sequential Experimentation by Evolutionary Algorithms", Berlin, Germany (with Ofer Shir, Thomas Baeck, and Joshua Knwoles)
  • Co-organizer, MCDM 2017 Special Session on "Data-Driven Multiple Criteria Decision Making", Ottawa, Canada (with Jussi Hakanen, Dmitry Podkopaev, and Karthik Sindhya)
  • Editorial Board Member, Applied Soft Computonig, since June 2016
  • Member, IEEE CIS Task Force on "Data-Driven Evolutionary Optimization of Expensive Problems", since June 2016
  • Co-organizer and Chair, EURO 2016 Special Session on "Multiobjective Optimization in Business Analytics", Poznan, Poland (with Julia Handl and Yu-Wang Chen)
  • Co-organizer and Chair, CIBCB 2016 Special Session on "Multiobjective Optimization in Bioinformatics, Computational Biology and Biomedical Engineering", Chiang Mai, Thailand (with Julia Handl and Laetitia Jourdan)
  • Co-organizer, CEC 2016 Special Session on "Optimization, Learning, and Decision-Making in Bioinformatics and Bioengineering ", Vancouver, Canda (with Daniel Ashlock and Sanaz Mostaghim)
  • Vice-Chair, IEEE Bioinformatics and Bioengineering Technical Committee, November 2015 - December 2017
  • Chair, IEEE CIS Task Force on "Optimization Methods in Bioinformatics and Bioengineering, October 2015 - December 2017
  • Member, IEEE Bioinformatics and Bioengineering Technical Committee, since September 2015
  • Co-organizer and Chair, CIBCB 2015 Special Session on "Optimization Methods in Bioinformatics and Bioengineering", Niagara Falls, Canada (with Sanaz Mostaghim)
  • Chair, MCDM 2015 Session on "Portfolio Optimization", Hamburg, Germany
  • Co-organizer and Chair, EURO 2015 Special Session on "Non-Standard Multiobjective Problems", Glasgow, Schotland (with Joshua Knowles)
  • Editor, Dagstuhl Seminar 15031 - Understanding Complexity in Multiobjective Optimization, Wadern, Germany, 2015
  • Member, IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, since November 2014
  • Co-organizer and Chair, SSCI 2014 Special Session on "Optimization Methods in Bioinformatics and Bioengineering (OMBB)", Orlando, Florida (with Anna Lavygina and Sanaz Mostaghim)
  • Editor, Dagstuhl Seminar 12041 - Learning in Multiobjective Optimization, Wadern, Germany, 2012
  • Publication Chair, UKCI 2011, Manchester, UK
  • Keynote Speaker, Biopharm Services Annual Conference, London, UK, 2016
  • Member, Program Committee of the following international conferences: CEC; CIBCB; ECTA; EvoCOP; GECCO; IBICA; IDT; LeGO; LOD; MOD; NaBIC; PPSN; SSBSS; SSCI.
  • Referee for numerous journals including: Applied Soft Computing; Automated Software Engineering; California Management Review; Chemical Engineering Science; Computational Optimization and Applications; Computersand Operations Research; European Journal of Operations Research; Evolutionary Computation; IEEE Access; IEEE Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics; IEEETransactions on Evolutionary Computation; IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics; International Journal of Production Research; International Journal of Systems Science; International Transactions in Operational Research; Journal of Biotechnology; Journal of Heuristics; Journal of Multiple-Criteria Decision Making; Metaheuristics; Nature-Scientific Reports; Optimization and Engineering; Swarm Intelligence.