PhDs

A statement about the School of Systems Engineering Post Graduate Training.

Current PhDs

• Rahim Lakhoo [Reading] (full-time, started Oct 2005)
• Kashif Iqbal [DERI, IE] (part-time, started Oct 2005)
• Carl Albing [Cray, USA] (part-time, started Jan 2006)
• Thomas Naughton [ORNL, USA] (part-time, started Jan 2006)
• Xin He [Reading] (full-time, started May 2005)

PhDs - Supervised

• Dr Hong Ong, Java Embedded Micro-kernel (JEM), February 18th 2004
• Dr Garry Smith, GridRM: A Resource Monitoring Framework, November 26th 2004
• Dr Matthew Grove, Tycho: A Resource Discovery Framework and Messaging System for Distributed Applications, November 2nd 2006
• Dr Aamir Shafi, Nested Parallelism for Multi-core Systems Using Java, November 6th 2006
• Dr Richard Boakes, Semantic Web-Based Log Analysis for Distributed Systems and Applications, May 29th 2007

PhDs - External Examiner

• Vincent Reynolds, PiCSE: A Framework for Simulation and Emulation of Pervasive Computing Appications, Computer Science, Trinity College Dublin, 22nd May 2009
• Guillermo Lopez Taboada, The Design of Efficient Java Communications for High Performance, Computer Science, The University of La Coruna, 18th May 2009
• Oluwafemi Ajayi, Dynamic Trust Negotiation for Decentralised e-Health Collaborations, Computer Science, University of Glasgow, 28th April 2009
• Keping Chen, Self-Organised Computing in a Heterogeneous and Dynamic Environment, Computer Science, University of Manchester, 12th November 2008
• Sena Seneviratne, Framework for Load Profile Prediction for Grid Computing, School of Electrical and Information Engineering, University of Sydney, Australia, 24th June 2008
• Nor Asilah Wati Abdul Hamid, Communication Performance Measurement and Analysis of Commodity Clusters, The University of Adelaide, 16th June 2008
• Thomas Sandholm, Stockholm University/Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm University/Royal Institute of Technology, 26th May 2008
• Ayomi Bandara, Semantic Description and Matching of Service for Pervasive Environments, The University of Southampton, 19th May 2008
• Vijay Sahota, Modelling Scalable Grid Information Services with Coloured Petri Nets, Brunel University, 6th, May 2008
• Horacio Gonzalez-Velez, Adaptive Structure Parallelism, Edinburgh University, 9th April 2008
• Shrija Rajbhandari, Provenance Support for Service-based Infrastructure, Caridiff University, 17th December 2007
• Michael Parkin, Lightweight Client Organisation for the Computational Grid, University of Manchester, 12th December 2007
• Wojtek Goscinski, IDEA: an infrastructure for the deployment of e-science applications, Monash University, Australia, 17th April 2007
• Rashid J. Al-Ali, Quality of Service Management in Service-oriented Grids, Cardiff University, October 10th 2005
• Eduardo Carrillo Zambrano Carrillo, A Framework for Ubiquitous and Voice Enabled Web Application Development: A Transport Information Systems Test-Bed, Universitat de Valencia, Valencia, Spain, 6th September 2004
• Nidal Al-Dmour, Using A Peer-toPeer Approach for Resource Discovery and Distributed Computing, Computer Science Division of the School of Informatics, University of Wales, Bangor, March 22nd 2004
• Yan Huang, The Role of Jini in a Service-oriented Architecture for Grid Computing, The University of Cardiff, April 2003
• Simon Huband, Topologies and Traces: Debugging Parallel Programs Using Expected Behaviours, The University of Western Australia, March 2003
• Duncan Grove, Performance Modelling of Message-Passing Parallel Programs, The University of Adelaide, March 2003
• Kamran Kazemi, Improved Support for the Message Passing Model of Parallel Programming on Workstation Clusters, The University of Western Australia, March 2000
• Heath James, Scheduling in Metacomputing Systems, The University of Adelaide, August 1999