Director of Systems Infrastructure Research, Huawei Edinburgh
Professor, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh
I am the Director of the Systems Infrastructure Research (SIR) Lab at the Huawei Edinburgh Research Centre, leading a team that connects advanced systems research with real-world production engineering. I also hold an Honorary Professorship at the School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh. Previously I was a Full Professor of Computer Science at the School of Computer Science, University of St Andrews. I have spent large portions of my career in industry and have worked as a Research Scientist at Google on two separate occasions where I contributed to Borg and Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
Previously I held a Royal Society Industry Fellowship and was a Visiting Scholar at the University of California, Berkeley. My industry experience spans research and development roles at Google, Hewlett Packard, Cloudsoft, and BAE Systems. Prior to my faculty appointment, I worked as a Research Fellow at the University of Oxford, the University of Melbourne, and the University of Edinburgh. I hold a PhD in Informatics from the University of Edinburgh, where my research focused on Web service choreography.
To support my research I am an Investigator (both PI and Co-I) on grants worth over £3.5 Million from a diverse range of funding sources, including the EPSRC, European Research Council (ERC), Royal Society, Google, Royal Society of Edinburgh, Impact Acceleration Account (IAA), SICSA, Amazon and Microsoft. I am an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Services Computing (TSC) and Cluster Computing. I am an alumnus of the Scottish Crucible, a research leadership programme. I serve as a regular Independent Expert and project evaluator on big data for the European Commission. Please see my LinkedIn profile for further details.