Ruhul Sarker received his PhD in 1991 from DalTech, Dalhousie University,
Halifax, Canada, and is currently a senior lecturer in Operations Research at the
School of Computer Science, University of New South Wales, ADFA Campus,
Canberra, Australia. Before joining at UNSW in February 1998, Dr. Sarker
worked with Monash University, Victoria, and the Bangladesh University of
Engineering and Technology, Dhaka. His main research interests are Evolutionary
Optimization, Data Mining and Applied Operations Research. He was involved
with three edited books either as editor or co-editor, and has published more than
80 refereed papers in international journals and conference proceedings. He is also
the editor of ASOR Bulletin, the national publication of the Australian Society for
Operations Research.