Lead academic on a Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) with Sainsburys Argos to build an optimal assortment, multi-echelon inventory plan which adjusts for store space and stock budget constraints (2019-2022).
Also working with Transforming Systems via PhD students and a recently completed 3-year KTP to build a software application which predicts pressure in NHS and other public health systems (2016-2019). The KTP was awarded the grade of "outstanding" by independent assessors at Innovate UK.
Co-coordinator of the Student Enterprise Projects (StEP) programme. Previously Coordinator of GWizards (2016-2018), an ambitious, community-facing initiative based at the University which helped local charities and SMEs with IT projects such as websites, mobile apps and other software development, and utilised the talents of our bright, innovative students whilst giving them real-world experience.
Please visit the Enterprise & Knowledge Exchange page if you are interested in working with me, or need some help with data visualisation / machine learning / network optimisation problems.
Professor of Informatics.
Long-time investigator in multilevel refinement for combinatorial optimisation problems and large scale force-directed graph drawing/visualisation.
Developer of NetWorks - mathematical optimisation software for mobile and cellular networks - and JOSTLE - parallel graph partitioning software.
Currently mainly focussed on research in symbolic music analysis, music information retrieval and, in particular, melodic search & classification algorithms, using the abc notation melody database as a resource.
Plays pipes, flute, saxophone & whistles in a number of bands & projects - has appeared at festival & clubs in Europe and across Britain, at various venues including St Chartier Festival, France; TFF Rudolstadt, Germany; St Martin-in-the-Fields, Trafalgar Square; and the Purcell Room, South Bank Centre, London.
Appears as a bagpiper in the 2017 feature film Tulip Fever, set in 17th century Amsterdam.
Has made 14 albums and his music occasionally appears on BBC Radio 2, 3 & 4.
Inventor of abc music notation, used all over the world and, according to music-notation.info, "perhaps the most common music notation format on the internet".
In 2013 the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library opted to use abc notation to transcribe the music in the newly launched Full English archive, "the world's biggest free digital archive of English traditional folk music and dance tunes". A team of volunteers is working on the transcriptions and Chris is collaborating with this project to provide software which manages and converts the abc transcriptions to score and sound files.