John Howat
Principal Developer, Algorithms and Business Applications, Kinaxis
John Howat is a Principal Developer at Kinaxis, where he focuses on developing algorithms in the area of supply planning for manufacturing and distribution networks. He received his PhD in Computer Science from Carleton University, specializing in distribution-sensitive data structures. Following his PhD in 2012, John held a Postdoctoral Fellowship at Queen’s University as part of a joint industrial partnership under the NRC IRAP program and then joined Carleton University as a faculty member before joining Kinaxis in 2015.