people / J. Christopher Beck
I joined the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto in August, 2004 where I am now a Professor of Industrial Engineering.
Before joining U of T I spent 2 years as a Staff Scientist at the Cork Constraint Computation Centre in Cork, Ireland and 3 years as Senior Scientist and Software Engineer on the Scheduler R&D team at ILOG in Paris, France.
I am a Fellow of AAAI, Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, and former President of the Executive Committee of the Association for Constraint Programming (2021-23) and of the Executive Council for the International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (2014-16).
I have done abbatical visits at Zuse Institute, Berlin (2010-11), King's College London (2017-18), TU Delft (2024), and the University of Basel (2025).
My research focuses on the methodology and applications of solving hard combinatorial optimization problems in the area of Artificial Intelligence and Operations Research, specifcally in the areas of constraint programming, AI planning and heuristic search, dynamic programming, and mathematical programming.
Here is a short CV.
Contact Information
J. Christopher Beck
Department of Mechanical &
Industrial Engineering
University of Toronto
5 King's College Rd.
Toronto, ON M5S 3G8
Phone: +1 416-946-8854
Fax: +1 416 978-7753
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