Profiles and success stories

Maomao completed his PhD in 2007 and currently has an industrial career developing IT systems with the well known investment bank Goldman Sachs. His PhD thesis was in Ubiquitous Computing and is concerned with adaptive privacy management in mobile systems (sharing of one's location with social peers). You can download the thesis. Read more about his time at Lancaster.

Rui studied 'full-time away', sharing his time between Portugal and visiting Lancaster for supervision. He completed his PhD in 2001 and now has a successful academic career: he is now an Assistant Professor at the Information Systems Department of the University of Minho, Portugal. His PhD thesis was in distributed systems support for Dynamic Location-Based Services. You can find out more about Rui's current research and publications. Read more about his time at Lancaster.

Peter spends most of his time in the Computing Department's new Innovative Interactions Lab (IIL). The IIL was designed to mirror a real-world "living space" so that students can build, set up and run experiments in the environment. The lab is equipped with an 8-channel sound system, videoconferencing capability and loads of innovative devices. Peter organises many of the activities in the lab and is currently using it to measure and evaluate multimodal interaction. In his free time, he tinkers with innovative art installations with computing's performance arts group .:ThePooch:.

Dan says that one of the best things about working in mobile wireless networking is that there are still new areas to explore, and because mobile technology moves so fast most work is with cutting edge technology. Development work tends to be very hands-on so it's never dull, and usually involves playing with lots of cool mobile and wireless kits. Dan is currently investigating "Context Aware Support for Cooperative Applications in Ubiquitous Computing Environments" and his project Casco can be seen outside many doors in the Computing Department. His public SMS portals called SPAM were deployed in Carlisle (as part of Equator & Casco).

Neil Loughran started his PhD in October 2001 and his main research areas are software product lines, aspect oriented software development and software evolution. His work has taken him to places as far as the National University of Singapore, where he worked with framing technologies, and conferences and workshops in Europe with his work on asset mining and software evolution. His homepage demonstrates his work, written papers, holiday snaps and his extra curricular musical aspirations ;-)

Kristof began his PhD at Lancaster University in October 2001 after a successful stint at Starlab. His interests in AI, wearable computing and context awareness has led to many successful projects at Lancaster University, including Smart-Its, Pin & Play (pictured on right), the Multi-Sensor Wearable, and most recently CommonSense. His travel notes prove that it's not all work at Lancaster!

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Professor Alan Dix has published numerous works in human-computer interaction (HCI) and computer supported collaborative work (CSCW) journals and is co-author of the seminal Human-Computer Interaction textbook (Prentice Hall). He is the Director of both aQtive limited and vfridge limited and has been the keynote speaker at numerous events and conferences. He is currently investigating "Context Aware Support for Co-operative Applications in Ubiquitous Computing Environments". Read more on his homepage.

Albrecht Schmidt joined Lancaster University (UK) in 2001 and helped to establish the newly founded Ubiquitous Computing Group. In November 2002 he submitted his PhD thesis with the title Ubiquitous Computing - Computing in Context. Albrecht is working in the area of situated interaction and context-awareness. In particular he is interested in the use of sensors to gain context, models and mechanisms to exploit context, and the resulting implications for human computer interaction. He contributed various papers on issues in Ubiquitous Computing and is actively involved in organizing scientific events in the field. Albrecht is program co-chair of Ubicomp 2003. Currently Albrecht is working in the Interdisciplinary Research Collaboration EQUATOR on questions that focus on the integration of physical and digital interaction. He is involved in the project 'Smart-Its' that envisions small-scale smart devices that can be attached to mundane everyday artefacts to augment these with a 'digital self'.

In recognition of our work in requirements engineering, Dr. Pete Sawyer, Dr. Gerald Kotonya were invited as the only European members to write the requirements engineering IEEE SWEBOK section of the (software engineering body of knowledge) document. The SWEBOK project is the most important event in the history of software engineering for 30 years. The SWEBOK project provides a consensually validated characterisation of the bounds of the software engineering discipline and provides a topical access to the Body of Knowledge supporting the discipline. Lancaster University is only one of two European sites involved in this project.

The Lancaster Mobile IPv6 Systems Research Laboratory is a unique, commercially funded facility for research and development of next generation mobile network protocols, services and applications. This enterprise strives to bring University researchers and industry together to collaboratively develop and test future network and service solutions. The main industrial collaborators and funding partners of the new research facility are all well-established leaders in their field of expertise: Cisco (worlds leading network systems vendor), Microsoft (worlds leading software company), and Orange (worlds best known wireless provider). Mobile IPV6