Sunil VaderaSunil Vadera is a professor of computer Science and serves as the current Director of the Informatics Research Institute at the University of Salford (UK). He holds a PhD from the University of Manchester in the area of formal methods of software devlopment and is a Fellow of the British Computer Society. His research is driven by the desire to close the gap between theory and practice in artificial intelligence. This has included work on sensor validation with the Mexican Instituto de Electricas, research on the development a system that advises on the relief venting of explosions in chemical processes for the Health and Safety Executive (UK), and research on machine learning for credit rating of sub-prime loans. His research has been published in journals including the Software Engineering Journal, Computer Journal, Formal Aspects of Computing, Foundations of Science, Expert Systems, and IEEE Transactions of Power Systems . He is co-founder of the European Conference on Intelligent Management Systems in Operations, held at Salford since 1997 and has co-edited several special issues of the Journal of Operational Research Society . Read More Read Less