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.
FAQ
- How can I get hold of your papers?
- Why are you ignoring my e-mails?
- Will you give me <sensitive datum x> from the experimental data described in your paper?
- Can I have a blurb about you for a seminar/grant/GeoCities site about computer scientists whose names start with 'T'?
- Will you give me a reference?
- I am an undergraduate student who wants to do a summer internship with you - will you fund me?
- I want to study Computer Science at St Andrews. Can you give me a place?
- Can you fix my computer?
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