Tristan Henderson

Welcome to my website. As you may have guessed from the text above, I work in the School of Computer Science at the University of St Andrews in Scotland. Please browse the links to find out more about me and what I do, or take a look at my papers. Or here are some ways to contact me.

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FAQ

• How can I get hold of your papers?
  I keep most of them here. Contact me if you are looking for anything in particular.
• Why are you ignoring my e-mails?
  They have probably been chewed up by our Exchange server. Try sending from a different address, or try contacting me by a different method. If you have sent me a 10MB Word file written in Greek or Sanskrit (I am not joking), then I have ignored you on purpose.
• Will you give me <sensitive datum x> from the experimental data described in your paper?
  No. If it's not on CRAWDAD, then we aren't allowed to release it.
• Can I have a blurb about you for a seminar/grant/GeoCities site about computer scientists whose names start with 'T'?
  Here's a bio and a CV.
• Will you give me a reference?
  Perhaps, but only if you follow these instructions.
• I am an undergraduate student who wants to do a summer internship with you - will you fund me?
  No. I occasionally offer funded summer internships but they will be advertised. I ignore unsolicited requests as I receive far too many.
• I want to study Computer Science at St Andrews. Can you give me a place?
  We don't give out places by e-mail; you have to apply through UCAS. But I am glad that you are considering coming here - please look at our Admissions web pages to find out more about applications and how to visit us.
• Can you fix my computer?
  Trust me, you don't want me anywhere near your computer. My special powers mean that I can break it without even touching it.

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Notices

• We have just had a new baby so I may be even slower than usual in responding to mail...
• My student Greg won the Brendan Murphy Memorial Prize at MSN '11.
• I have been promoted! I am a Senior Lecturer as of 1 August 2011.
• I am giving the keynote at AOC 2011.
• The new St Andrews Computer Human Interaction group website is up!
• My (now-graduated) Senior Honours student, Ali Scott, came second in the Young Software Engineer of the Year awards. UPDATE: photo here.
• My student Iain won the PhD award at MobiOpp.
• We made it to the finals of the Thales Scottish Technology Prize.
• St Andrews 600th Anniversary Time Capsule launched.
• Some new papers are coming out of our Privacy Value Networks research project.
• New funded PhD opportunities in Cloud Computing.
• We hold regular SCONE (SCOttish Networking Event) meetings for anyone who is interested in networking and systems. Our next meeting is in St Andrews on 24 February - please come!
• I am generally always on the lookout for good PhD students — see my research page for more. Funding may be available through the School (see jobs.ac.uk) and also through SICSA. Note that I do not have funding for overseas undergraduate internships — the numerous requests that I receive for these are ignored.
• I am the School Undergraduate Admissions Officer. If you are thinking about studying Computer Science at St Andrews, please look at the relevant School web pages and consider visiting us.
• I am currently involved with the following events. Please consider submitting something if you can.
  • Workshop Organiser, SICSA Cybersecurity Workshop
  • Workshop Organiser, COMMNET Social Networks and Communications Workshop
  • Programme Committee, Designing Interactive Secure Systems
  • Programme Committee, SocialCom 2012
  • Programme Committee, CHANTS 2012
  • Programme Committee, ACM SIGCOMM 2012 Poster and Demo session
  • Programme Committee, ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Measurements Up and Down the STack
  • Programme Committee, AOC 2012
  • Programme Committee, EuroSys 2012 Workshop on Measurement, Privacy, and Mobility