Research Overview

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.

This has led to research contributions in Cloud computing (University of St Andrews, University of Melbourne); open, scalable infrastructure for the National Health Service (Oxford University); service-oriented architectures, Web service choreography (School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh); and optimising data movement in Terabyte scale repositories (National e-Science Centre). Complementing my academic experience, I have worked on projects at two industrial research laboratories, extended transactions at Hewlett Packard and formal methods at BAE Systems. My future research agenda addresses the challenges of engineering autonomic and on-demand Cloud computing technologies.

I have the following current research interests:

• Cloud computing
• Data-intensive computing
• Big Data
• Financial computing: algorithmic trading strategies
• Service Oriented Architectures: orchestration and choreography languages
• Semantic Web technologies: linked data

Current Research Grants

• Elastic Virtual Infrastructure for Research Applications (ELVIRA)
• Amazon Research Grant
• Microsoft Windows Azure Academic Collaboration

Previous Research Grants/Projects

Details of previous research projects are here.