Adam Barker, PhD

I work as a Research Fellow on Cloud Computing in the Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering, at the University of Melbourne. Previously I have worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Oxford and the National e-Science Centre (NeSC), University of Edinburgh.

I hold a PhD in Informatics and MSc by research from the University of Edinburgh. The focus of my PhD was Web service choreography, primarily supervised by David Robertson. Prior to joining Edinburgh, I obtained an MSc in Distributed Systems under the supervision of Mark Little and a BSc (Hons) in Software Engineering from Newcastle University. Complementing my academic experience, I have completed internships at Hewlett Packard and BAE Systems.

My research interests concentrate on the theoretical foundations and effective engineering of Enterprise Systems: large-scale, distributed, business critical systems that extend across and between organisations. I have published over 20 papers in high impact Journals and Conferences with leading systems researchers including: Jon Weissman, Rajkumar Buyya, Malcolm Atkinson, Jano van Hemert, and David Robertson.