Helmut Simonis
Senior Research Fellow at Insight Centre for Data Analytics
Cork, Ireland
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Top SchoolHelmut Simonis is a senior research fellow based in Cork with over three decades of expertise in constraint programming, from co-developing the pioneering CHIP system to founding and leading industrial optimisation ventures. He bridges deep academic research and practical deployment, having held roles at Imperial College, co-founded Cosytec and CrossCore, and now develops constraint-based solutions for industry at the Insight Centre. A two-time CP Best Application Paper winner and former president of the Association for Constraint Programming, he combines technical leadership with community stewardship and holds multiple patents in network optimization. Notably, his career threads rare hands-on product architecture experience into advanced research, enabling rapid translation of constraint technologies into real-world optimisation systems.
10 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Diplom, Mathematics, Diplom, Mathematics at Technische Hochschule Darmstadt
Github Skills (8)
benchmark6
benchmarking6
sat4
optimization2
minizinc2
constraint-programming2
sat-solver2
compiler1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
hsimonis/pthg24
Feb 2024 - Oct 2024
Contributions:93 pushes in 7 months
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