Led multiple major research projects funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), the Federal Ministry for Digital and Economic Affairs, and industry partners (Bosch, MCP, Ximes)
Developed scheduling systems such as Operating Hours Assistant and First Class Scheduler
Served as chair or co-chair for prestigious international conferences, including:
- Conference Chair of CPAIOR 2021 (18th International Conference on Integration of CP, AI, and OR)
- Conference Chair and Program Co-Chair of CPAIOR 2020
- Co-Chair of the 12th International Conference on the Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling (2018)
Research Experience
Associate Professor and Head of the Christian Doppler Laboratory at TU Wien (2017–2024)
Faculty member/Supervisor for a PhD student in the Graduate School on Computational Optimization (joint initiative by University of Vienna, TU Wien, IST Austria, WU Vienna; FWF-funded, 2020–2024)
Project leader of ARTE: Artificial Intelligence in Employee Scheduling (FWF-funded, 2012–2017)
Local project leader at TU Wien for Softnet Austria 2 – Project 6: Test Support for End-User Programming (2010–2013)
Local project leader for the 'Planning Knowledge' project under Softnet Austria (2007–2010)
Involved in the FWF-funded 'Hypertree Decompositions' project (2004–2006)
Collaborated with Ximes Corp. on 'A Heuristic-based System for Generation of Shifts with Breaks' (2003, funded by WIFI Wien)
Worked on the joint DBAI–Ximes project 'ROTA' (1999–2002, funded by FFF)
Background
Currently an Associate Professor at TU Wien and member of the Databases and Artificial Intelligence (DBAI) Group
Head of the Christian Doppler Laboratory for Artificial Intelligence and Optimization for Planning and Scheduling
Research interests include: Artificial Intelligence techniques, Machine Learning and Optimization, Metaheuristic Algorithms, Constraint Satisfaction, SAT Solving, Tree/Hypertree Decompositions
Applications focus on: Scheduling (staff scheduling, shift design, break scheduling), Timetabling (e.g., Social Golfer Problem, high school timetabling), and other Combinatorial Optimization Problems (set covering, graph coloring, etc.)
Actively involved in the development of scheduling systems