Rate My Professor Mark Wallace

Professor Mark Wallace serves as an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Data Science & Artificial Intelligence within Monash University's Faculty of Information Technology, recognized as a leader in discrete optimisation. He earned a Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics and Philosophy from the University of Oxford in 1977, a Master of Science in Computer Science from the University of London in 1980, and a Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science from the University of Southampton in 1983, sponsored by ICL. Following his doctorate, Wallace worked for 21 years at ICL, a UK computer company, designing a natural language processing system that was commercialized as a product. He joined Imperial College in 2002 before taking a Chair at Monash University in 2004. Key leadership roles include Associate Dean (Research) for the Faculty of Information Technology from 2016 to 2018, Chair of the Faculty Research Committee since 2016, Member of the Senior Leadership Team Professoriate Group from 2011 to 2012, and Research Centre Director of the Monash-CTI Centre for Optimisation in Travel, Transport and Logistics from 2011 to 2012. He held a Fellowship with National ICT Australia (NICTA) from 2010 to 2014.

Wallace's research interests encompass discrete optimisation, including techniques and algorithms for optimisation, their integration, and applications to complex resource planning, scheduling problems, and especially transport optimisation. He co-founded the hybrid algorithms research area and leads in constraint programming (CP) and hybrid techniques (CPAIOR). Major contributions include leading the team that developed the ECLiPSe constraint programming platform, acquired by Cisco Systems in 2004; creating the G12 hybrid optimisation software platform; and founding Opturion to commercialize it. He established the Monash-CTI Centre and delivered optimisation solutions for organizations such as British Airways, RAC, Country Fire Authority, Qantas, Alertness CRC, Woodside, Melbourne Water, and the Alfred Hospital. His Google Scholar profile shows 6,612 citations and an h-index of 37. Recent publications include "Degradation-Aware Charger Deployment, Battery Sizing, and Charge Scheduling for Electric Bus Fleets" (2026, IEEE Transactions on Transportation Electrification), "Dynamic Replanning for Improved Public Transport Routing" (2025, IJCAI), "Automatic core-guided reformulation via constraint explanation and condition learning" (2024, AAAI), "Efficient and Exact Public Transport Routing via a Transfer Connection Database" (2024, SoCS), and "Snapshot-optimal real-time ride sharing" (2024, Information). His research supports UN Sustainable Development Goals 3, 7, 9, 11, and 15.