Co-chairing the 25th Edition of ModRef
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ModRef has been an excellent venue for presenting cutting edge research, at the work in progress stage for researchers interested in constraint programming. As a PhD student, I found it a valuable stepping stone, enabling me to polish and improve my work before submitting it for publication.
This year, I am honoured to be co-chairing it with the wonderful Jordi Coll, with whom I’ve had the pleasure of collaborating in the past. The response from the community has been tremendous in terms of forming a program committee and getting reviews done in good time. We hope to do a little something special to celebrate the 25th running of this workshop.
After 6 years of working in the AI research group, I have taken up a research fellow postdoc position in the real-time and distributed systems group, specifically working on the SCHEME project (safety-critical harsh environment micro-processor evolution). I am applying many of the techniques from previous work such as feature engineering, algorithm selection, constraint programming in order to solve problems in robotics system.
In the summer of 2025, the maths department moved in alongside computer science into the Ian Wand building. The table tennis table in our courtyard stood mostly unused, as did the table-football in the communal pod. I organised a table sports tournament to encourage people from both departments to have some fun getting to know each other over a game.
Glasgow, here we come! It was very exciting to be a co-author on two papers accepted to CP2025 in Glasgow. One paper presents a constraint model used by the 
I’ve enjoyed solving the