Professor
Cardiff, Wales, Gb
Ian obtained his degree in Computing Science and a Ph.D. researching and implementing artificial-neural-network types for the determination of musical pitch, at Cardiff University. After his Ph.D, he joined the gravitational-wave group at Cardiff where he designed, procured and engineered the implementation of the data acquisition system for the GEO 600 gravitational wave detector (which is in operation today). He also wrote the Triana workflow system for GEO 600 and managed it thereafter. Ian's research over the last 27 years at Cardiff has covered a broad range of distributed computing areas but he now specializes in Blockchain, machine learning, MANETs, open data access, Cloud computing, Web dashboards/APIs, big data applications, and distributed scientific workflow. Ian has worked with numerous application areas, including audio, astrophysics, engineering, bioinformatics, healthcare, property solutions, various military applications and ASIC chip design. He has managed more than 15 research projects for Cardiff University, published >140 papers , 3 books, acted as guest editor for several special issues in journals, and acts as general chair the WORKS workshop on workflow yearly at supercomputing. . He won the Naval Research Lab (NRL)best research paper (ALAN Berman) prize in 2010, 2011 and 2015, which has been part of a 20-year long collaboration with the Naval Research Lab, working on numerous projects in mobile communications. Ian has an h-index of 43 and has over 9000 citations (google scholar ID JlqiAJkAAAAJ).