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Associate Professor Andrew Wirth
Short Biography
Associate Professor Andrew Wirth, Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, teaches engineering analysis (differential and difference equations) and operations research (discrete optimisation). Prior to his current appointment he worked at the Melbourne Business School. He has also held visiting appointments at Monash University and Templeton College, University of Oxford. His PhD and BSc (Hons) are in mathematics. He also holds a formal teaching qualification.
Consulting Activities
Andrew's consulting work has included scheduling of manufacturing processes at Pacific Dunlop and Fluor Daniel, human resource management planning for the Victoria Police and organisational reviews for Shell and National Mutual.
Technical Expertise
Dr Wirth's research is in the development of effective and efficient heuristics for discrete optimisation problems in scheduling and telecommunication networks. Some of this work has been carried out in collaboration with colleagues at the Operations Research Group, CSIRO Mathematics and Information Sciences and Telstra Research Laboratories.
Research Activities
- Telecommunications
- Fault Tolerant Network Design
- Mixed Photonic/Electronic Network Design
- Machine Scheduling
- Processor Scheduling
Andrew's Publications
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