Baris Yuce is a Senior Lecturer and Program Director of MSc Engineering Business Management at the Faculty of Environment Science and Economy, the University of Exeter.

Prior to his current job, he worked at Cardiff University as a Post-Doc at the BRE Centre for Sustainable Engineering, School of Engineering, and at School of Computer Science, Machine Vision Group

Baris graduated from the Department of Industrial Engineering at Sakarya University (Turkey) in 2005. He obtained his MSc degree from Institute of Natural Science at Sakarya University in 2007. He then completed his PhD from Cardiff University, School of Engineering, in 2012.

Research Interests:

Urban Analytics, Machine Learning, Machine Vision, Life Cycle Assessment, Supply Chain Management, Sustainable Supply Chain Management, Industry 4.0 Applications, Ontology Applications, Smart Cities, Smart Buildings, Renewable Energy Management, Forecasting Systems, Deterministic and Stochastic Optimisation including: Integer Programming, Nonlinear Programming, The Bees Algorithm, Genetic Algorithm, Simulated Annealing, Ant Colony Optimisation and Hill Climbing, Fuzzy Systems and Fuzzy Logic, Rough Set Theory, Multi-Agent Systems, Single Machine Scheduling, Job-Shop Scheduling, Robotics and Automation, High Performance Computing (HPC) and Wireless Mesh Networking systems.

Project Baris has involved:

Industrial Funded (Waterman Group) (PI): Optimised decision support system to compute the embodied and operational carbon of Mechanical and Electrical systems in buildings.

UKRPIF funded: Net Zero – CREWW ENZO: Embodying Net Zero in Operation (Co-I), Digital Twin Development of the CREWW Building.

STFC Food Network+ (Co-I) - Developing a data-driven communication platform for improving farmed fish distribution in Kenya

KTP funded project with Smart Manufacturing (Co-I) - Implemention of a dual-production business model and a novel simulation tool to enable the optimisation of multi production manufacturing flows with Smart Manufacturing.

RIVIC (3D Mesh Processing Systems) - Welsh Government Funded,
SPORTE2 (Optimised Energy Management Systems for Sports Facilities) - EC-FP-7 Funded,
KnoholEM (Holistic Knowledge-based (Ontology Added) Energy Optimisation Systems) - EC-FP-7 Funded,
Estate Energy Optimisation (EEO)-Box ( Optimised Domestic Appliance Scheduling and Energy Management Systems) - BRE Funded
WANDA (River Depth Prediction Systems) - TSB Funded
MAS2TERING (Multi-Agent-based Secure Smart Grid Management Systems) - EC-FP-7 Funded