Senior Researcher

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Name: Pio Fenton                  

Position: Senior Researcher of RIKON Research Group

Qualifications:

E-mail: rikon@wit.ie

Biography:

Dr. Pio Fenton graduated from Cork Institute of Technology in 2001 following the completion of a degree in Computer Applications where he specialised in artificial intelligence for business applications. At this point he undertook a PhD in Artificial Intelligence for Production Scheduling. During this time Dr. Fenton worked with several large pharmaceutical companies in addressing challenges they had in the area of manufacturing scheduling. He completed his PhD in 2006 and immediately undertook a position as a post-doctoral researcher in the department of computing working with the PROTEOBIO proteomics group at CIT. Here he was involved in an extensive multi-researcher area which drew heavily upon his skills as a project manager. Simultaneously he developed relationships with many SMEs and assisted in developing proposals to funding agencies such as Enterprise Ireland.

In 2007 Dr. Fenton joined the School of Business at Waterford Institute of Technology where his multi-disciplinary background and experience has proved to be the bedrock of his research and teaching at the institute. Currently, he is chairperson of the Business Education Teaching & Research Group at WIT and is active in a number of other research areas including project management and supply chain management. Dr. Fenton has also delivered specialist executive education programs for bodies external to WIT.

Publications:

I have 4 peer-review conference publications (Co-authored with Dr. Paul Walsh)

1. “A Comparison of Messy GA and Permutation Based GA for Job Shop Scheduling”, GECCO 2005 pp 1593-1594.

2. “ A High Throughput Computing Framework for JSP”, CEC 2004, Portland Oregon , IEEE 2004 pp 1554-1561.

3. “ An Examination of Seeding Levels and Mutation Rates for a Repeating Permutation based GA Applied to JSP” from Proceeding ( 481 ) Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing (Benidorm)- 2005

4. “ Improving the Performance of the Repeating Permutation Representation Using Morphogenic Computation and Generalised Modified Order Crossover” - CEC2005 Edinborough, 2005, pp 1368-1375

5. “Investigating the Role of the Project Manager in IS Projects” – Proc. Irish Academy of Management Conference, September 2008

Forthcoming:

1.  “Transforming The Software Business – The Characteristics of SaaS in Evolving Business Landscapes” Irish Academy of Management 2009 (Co-Author Anwesh AdhiKari)

2. “Simulation in Education – Insights from Auditing and Project Management Delivery” Irish Academy of Management 2009  – (Co-author Collette Kirwan)