Staff research interests

The following is a list of research interests of our staff. You may wish to contact them regarding PhD research in their specialisms.

A note on Email Addresses

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Gordon Blair
Distributed systems architecture, next generation middleware, reflection, self-healing, applications of advanced middleware in mobile and ubiquitous computing
Phone: +44 (0)1524 510303
Email: gordon
Lynne Blair
Feature interaction problems in mobile computing and the Internet, aspect-oriented software development, formal specification and verification.
Phone: +44 (0)1524 592579
Email: lb
Website: http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/computing/users/lb/
Keith Cheverst
Context-aware computing within ubiquitous and mobile computing environments, the development, deployment and evaluation of context-aware applications.
Phone: +44 (0)1524 594539
Email: kc Website: http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/computing/staff/kc.html
Geoff Coulson
Middleware architecture, programmable networks, Grid computing, real-time/ multimedia capable middleware.
Phone: +44 (0)1524 510306
Email: geoff
Website: http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/computing/users/geoff/
Nigel Davies
Distributed mobile computing, novel mobile applications, middleware platforms to support context-aware and ubiquitous computing applications.
Phone: +44 (0)1524 594337
Email: nigel
Website: http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/computing/users/nigel/welcome.html
Alan Dix
Phone: +44 (0)1524 592268
Email: a.dix - add @lancaster.ac.uk
Website: http://www.hcibook.com/alan/
Chris Edwards
Next generation Internet, large-scale IPv6 networks, transitioning from IPv4 to IPv6, mobile multimedia caching.
Phone: +44 (0)1524 510329
Email: ce
Joe Finney
Mobile systems, ubiquitous computing, embedded systems and novel mobile applications.
Phone: +44 (0)1524 592732
Email: joe
Adrian Friday
Mobile and ubiquitous computing, advanced mobile middleware, e.g. for dependability in ad-hoc real-time systems, service location and interaction protocols.
Phone: +44 (0)1524 510326
Email: adrian
Website: http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/~adrian
Roger Garside
Phone: +44 (0)1524 510310
Email: rgg
Website: http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/computing/staff/rgg.html
Hans-Werner Gellersen
Phone: +44 (0)1524 510323
Email: hwg
Website: http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/~hwg/
David Hutchison
Architecture, services and protocols for distributed multimedia systems, including Internet QoS, multipeer/content delivery networks, and active/programmable networks.
Phone: +44 (0)1524 510331
Email: dh
Website: http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/computing/staff/dh.html
Gerd Kortuem
Phone: +44 (0)1524 510324
Email: kortuem
Website: http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/computing/users/kortuem/
Gerald Kotonya
Component-based software engineering, service-oriented software engineering, software architecture and architecture
Phone: +44 (0)1524 510308
Email: gerald
John Leach
Phone: +44 (0)1524 593813
Email: leach
Simon Lock
Phone: +44 (0)1524 510304
Email: lock
Laurent Mathy
Architectures, services and protocols for multimedia communications requiring QoS/ group support, programmable networks, overlay structures and e-commerce security, peer- to- peer network management, autonomic network systems.
Phone: +44 (0)1524 510385
Email: laurent
Website: http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/computing/staff/laurent.html
John Mariani
Databases (particularly object-oriented) Advanced user interfaces (usually highly graphical) to databases Data visualisation Ethnographically informed system design CSCW
Phone: +44 (0)1524 510309
Email: jam
Website: http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/computing/users/jam/jamweb.html
Chris Paice
Phone: +44 (0)1524 510321
Email: cdp
Nicholas Race
Multimedia caching, multimedia servers and services, content delivery networks, Internet Quality of Service (QoS) and mobile systems.
Phone: +44 (0)1524 510322
Email: race
Website: http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/~race/
Awais Rashid
Aspect-Oriented Software Development, Object Data Management, XML Data Management
Phone: +44 (0)1524 592647
Email: marash
Website: http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/computing/users/marash/
Doug Shepherd
Communications and distributed systems support for multimedia applications.
Phone: +44 (0)1524 593681
Email: d.shepherd - add @lancaster.ac.uk
Website: http://www.lancs.ac.uk/staff/doug/
Pete Sawyer
Software systems engineering, Requirements engineering, Process improvement, Applications of NLP to software systems engineering.
Phone: +44 (0)1524 510320
Email: sawyer
Website: http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/computing/staff/sawyer.html
Andrew Scott
Mobile and ubiquitous computing, video storage, caching and network QoS, active networking.
Phone: +44 (0)1524 510330
Email: acs
Website: http://www.landmarc.net/