Professor. Dr. Graham Kendall

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Professor Kendall is the Deputy Vice Chancellor (Research and Enterprise) at MILA University, Malaysia.

Prior to this, he was the Provost/CEO of the University of Nottingham Malaysia (5,000 students, 650 staff on a 125-acre estate). He also served as a Pro-Vice Chancellor for the global University. He is still affiliated with Nottingham, as an Emeritus Professor.

He has been an Associate Editor of ten scientific journals and a former Editor-in-chief of the “IEEE Transactions on Computational Intelligence and AI in Games”. He has published almost 300 peer reviewed scientific papers. His research has significant impact, as exhibited by citations (>22,000 on Google Scholar) to his peer reviewed scientific papers and his h-index (76 on Google Scholar).

His research interests include Operations Research, Evolutionary Computation, Artificial Intelligence, Heuristics, Meta-heuristics, Hyper-heuristics and addressing Real World Applications.

In recent years Graham has been carrying out research into ethical publishing and has published a number of articles on this topic. He manages an 𝕏 account that addresses this area, as well as a LinkedIn page.

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Professor Kendall is a Distinguished Professorship at the Metropolitan University, Hong Kong and an Honorary Professorship at Amity University, India.

He was a Fellow of the British Computer Society, a Fellow of the Operational Research Society and a Senior Member of IEEE. He retired from these positions when he returned to industry in 2021.

Before entering academia, Graham spent almost 20 years (1979-1994) in the Information Technology (IT) sector, holding positions at the Co-operative Wholesale Society and Provincial Insurance. He managed IT support teams and large IT projects, having responsibility for upwards of 100 people.

In 1994, he decided to leave the industrial sector and do his undergraduate studies (1994-1997) and then a PhD (1997-2000).

In 1999, two years into his PhD, he was offered a lectureship at the University of Nottingham. He was promoted to full Professor in January 2007.

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