Derek Long

Derek Long is a Scientific Advisor at Schlumberger and a Professor at King's College London, specializing in automated planning with a focus on temporal and resource-constrained task planning. They have significant expertise in search, constraint reasoning, and automatic generic heuristic state evaluation, and work on applications in plan-based automation, industrial automation, and robotics. Derek previously served as a Lecturer at University College London and Durham University and was a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Strathclyde. They hold a Doctor of Philosophy and a Master of Arts in Mathematics from the University of Oxford.