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Professor George Rzevski is an academic, entrepreneur and consultant. He is Professor Emeritus, Department of Design and Innovation at The Open University, Milton Keynes; Visiting Professor of Multi-Agent Systems at Cologne University of Applied Sciences and Visiting Scholar at Westminster Business School, where he is involved in a number of advanced research projects in the fields of Complexity and Multi-Agent Systems. Professor Rzevski is Founder and Chief Scientist of Magenta Corporation Ltd, London, an international company developing and marketing multi-agent systems for applications such as logistics, e-commerce, text understanding and knowledge discovery and Chairman of Rzevski Solutions Ltd, London, providing advice and solutions for a wide variety of organisational and Information Technology problems in private companies and administrations.
Before founding Magenta Corporation, George was Professor in Department of Design and Innovation at The Open University, Milton Keynes, where he was Director, Centre for the Design of Intelligent Systems. His Centre was well funded by grants from government and industry and his Department was rated 5 out of 5 in the two Research Assessment Exercises. As a tribute to his successful research career, the University established recently a new “George Rzevski Complexity Laboratory”. At The Open University George pioneered undergraduate education in intelligent mechatronics launching a course in which every student experimented with his/her personal intelligent robot.
Professor Rzevski has published widely and delivered keynote papers at numerous international conferences. He supervised PhD projects and acted as external examiner for undergraduate and postgraduate courses in many UK university departments. Until recently he has been editor-in-chief of the Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Engineering, published by Elsevier.
He has assessed candidates for tenure on behalf of a number of American universities, including Stamford, Ohio and Texas; examined over 30 PhD students from universities in the UK and abroad, including Cambridge University, Imperial College, LSE, Cardiff University, Singapore University, and National University of Ireland.
For several years George has delivered a regular series of lectures on Economic, Social and Cultural Implications of Global Networks to postgraduate students at London School of Economics.
Throughout his academic career George worked as a consultant for private companies, government administrations and EU on various issues related to advanced information technologies.
He began his academic career in the UK at Kingston Polytechnic, later Kingston University, where he was Professor and Founder Head of Information Systems. At Kingston he launched new undergraduate and postgraduate courses aimed at bringing together disciplines of Information Technology (IT) and Business and led a successful research centre in Computer-Integrated Manufacturing. The Centre worked in close cooperation with leading high-technology companies, including ICL, Xerox, IBM and many others.
George is of Russian origin. His family emigrated from Russia in 1918 and settled in Serbia, where he was born in 1932 and educated at the University of Belgrade. In his late twenties he was given an opportunity to establish a new design office in Belgrade. He hand-picked his staff employing only talented young engineers and the design bureaux grew under his leadership into a major organisation capable of undertaking large-scale electrical engineering projects. At the age of 29 George was Chief Designer of all major railways electrification schemes in Yugoslavia.
George moved to the UK in the 1960s where he attended a postgraduate refresher course at Imperial College before joining Kingston.