I am a postdoctoral fellow at Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal working with Gilles Pesant and Louis-Martin Rousseau. My research focuses on the application of constraint programming and other artificial intelligence techniques to large scale real world problems. In general, I have an interest in optimization as it applies to real world problems and the interaction between real world problems and problem abstractions. A copy of my curriculum vitae can be found here [pdf].
A Little About Me
I grew up in northwestern British Columbia and spent a large part of my youth playing soccer or messing around with computers. I completed a BSc in Computer Science in 2004 at the University of Northern British Columbia in Prince George. I completed a Master's degree in Computer Science in 2006 at the University of Waterloo supervised by Prof. Peter van Beek. I successfully defended and completed my PhD in November, 2010, also under the supervision of Peter van Beek.
Selected Publications
- Tyrel Russell and Peter van Beek. Determining the Number of Games Needed to Guarantee an NHL Playoff Spot. Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Integration of AI and OR Techniques in Constraint Programming for Combinatorial Optimization Problems (CPAIOR 2009), Pittsburgh, 233-247, May, 2009.[pdf]
- Tyrel Russell, Abid M. Malik, Michael Chase, and Peter van Beek. Learning heuristics for the superblock instruction scheduling problem. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 21(10):1489-1502, 2009.[pdf]
- Tyrel Russell and Peter van Beek. Mathematically Clinching a Playof Spot in the NHL and the Effect of Scoring Systems. In Proceedings of the 21st Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Windsor, Ontario, 2008. (Best Paper Award) [pdf]
