Bradford Heap is a Research Associate in the School of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of New South Wales.

He has recently completed his PhD in distributed auction algorithms for task allocation in multi-robot and autonomous systems at UNSW.

His research interests are in data mining techniques for user modelling and recommender systems, and distributed algorithms for multi-agent and multi-robot autonomous systems. He is currently researching within the Personalisation project at Smart Services CRC, which aims to develop novel knowledge acquisition and data mining techniques to provide more personalised services.