Staff profile

I graduated from Durham University in 2009 with a BSc in Natural Sciences (Mathematics and Computer Science), and then again in 2010 with a MSc in Internet Technology and Distributed Systems. From October 2010 to June 2016 I studied for a PhD in Complexity Theory under the supervision of Prof. Andrei Krokhin.

For 3 years I was a Teaching Fellow in the Department of Computer Science (formerly the School of Engineering and Computing Sciences). In August 2019 I took on a new role as Assistant Professor (Teaching) in Computer Science with additional responsibility for departmental IT provisions, including management of NCC, our departmental GPU research cluster.

• Computational Complexity
• Constraint Satisfaction

• ACiD: Algorithms and Complexity

Conference Paper

• Huber, A., Krokhin, A. & Powell, R. (2013), Skew Bisubmodularity & Valued CSPs, SODA 2013. 1296-1305.

Journal Article

• Cohen, D. Cooper, M., Jeavons, P. Krokhin, A., Powell, R. & Zivny, S. (2017). Binarisation for Valued Constraint Satisfaction Problems. SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics 31(4): 2279-2300.