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 AddressesWe are no longer displaying full email addresses in order to reduce the amount of unsolicited email we receive. Unless stated otherwise to contact someone please add @comp.lancs.ac.uk to the end of the email id specified below.
- Gordon Blair
- Distributed systems architecture, next generation middleware, reflection, self-healing, applications of advanced middleware in mobile and ubiquitous computing
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Phone: +44 (0)1524 594337
Email: nigel
Website: http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/computing/users/nigel/welcome.html - Alan Dix
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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.
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Phone: +44 (0)1524 510329
Email: ce - Joe Finney
- Mobile systems, ubiquitous computing, embedded systems and novel mobile applications.
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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.
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Phone: +44 (0)1524 510326
Email: adrian
Website: http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/~adrian - Roger Garside
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Phone: +44 (0)1524 510310
Email: rgg
Website: http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/computing/staff/rgg.html - Hans-Werner Gellersen
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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.
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Phone: +44 (0)1524 510331
Email: dh
Website: http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/computing/staff/dh.html - Gerd Kortuem
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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
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Phone: +44 (0)1524 510308
Email: gerald - John Leach
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Phone: +44 (0)1524 593813
Email: leach - Simon Lock
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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.
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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
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Phone: +44 (0)1524 510309
Email: jam
Website: http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/computing/users/jam/jamweb.html - Chris Paice
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Phone: +44 (0)1524 510330
Email: acs
Website: http://www.landmarc.net/

