Supervision

If you're funded and looking for a supervisor for your PhD, MSc or undergraduate topic I am happy to discuss your ideas. Please drop me a line. Themes that I find particularly interesting include:

The Web, the Semantic Web, and more generally Semantic Computing: using the technologies that are evolving through semantic web technologies research to change the way we structure and scale computer systems and data.
Distributed Systems and post-mortem analysis of faults & failures. Distributed architectures and approaches (*aaS Cloud, REST, Web Services, Tuple Spaces).
Internet systems architectures: including infrastructure & data design — especially how each affects the other, and how both affect scalability.
Programming: ECMAScript (JavaScript), Rust, Go, PHP, Python. Object-Oriented, Functional, Object-Functional.
Useful, accessible, and usable systems, with particular interest in achieving these through open standards.
Interoperability, Open Standards & the trade off between commercially driven and evolved standards vs. optimal mathematical/scientific/engineering solutions.

Supervision History

Projects I have supervised…

Postgraduate

2018-2024, PhD, An Exploration of the Perceived Subjective Weighting of Naturally Occurring Visual Artefacts in Video
2018-2019, MSc, Designing Better Systems: A DevSecOps Pilot Study
2019, PhD, An application of object-functional programming to defence modelling, G. D. Toomey
2017, PhD, E-Service adoption in unstable societies, A. Alsaeed (co-supervised with C. Adams)
2015, PhD, Digital public service integration in refugee camp: camp to city — just-in-time bureaucracy, M. Al-Husban (co-supervised with C. Adams)
2010-2016, PhD, Semantic Web Examiner of Emergent Phenomena
2010-2011, MSc, A Study of User Trust
2010-2011, MSc, Critical Thinking Tool
2009-2010, MSc, Google Wave — For Learning
2009-2010, MSc, Design and development of a Portal

Undergraduate

2019-2020

Maintenance issue tracking system
A bill-splitting application built using Open Banking APIs

2018-2019

Using COTS products to monitor traffic patterns
Creating effectiveness within project teams
Helping students to use active voice in academic writing
Webpage annotation extension
Interactive Web-Based Tourist Planner

2017-2018

School Feedback App Front-End Application Concept
Application, Data & Transaction Security
On using NFC Tags for Student ID
Educational Web Platform (Mathematics Focus)
Student Housing Management System
Making the road safer for cyclists
High speed Deep Learning training on the web using Web Assembly and WebGL 2.0

2016-2017

Optimising load balancing with web technologies
Web-based charting application

2015-2016

A web application to improve tracking and reporting of software development issues
Cyclist Tracking using Google Glass

2013-2014

Collaborative drawing platform
Cloud-based Interactive Board to Store Information
Student Attendance and Performance Analytics
Multi-API note taking app
Alt-Metrics and the semantic web
Crowd Sourced Cycle Based Geo-Data Creation
Crowd-sourced wiki-like semantic data hive

2012–2013

Information Management System for Educational Institutes
Sonify — enabling visually impaired users to interact with data
Distributing data processing to the browser
COTS Bicycle Data-Logging
An online social collaborative idea-generation tool

2011–2012

Citizen Led Surveillance
Crowd Sourced Real-time Public Transport Information
Mobile London — a mobile website for planning journeys in London
Twitter Sentiment Engine for Online Reputation Management
Evergreen City Project — a construction company website

2010–2011

Building Web-based GIS Systems using HTML5
Before & After: A Modern Web Application and RESTful API
JavaScript Game Development with Usability Testing via Social Networking Sites
Electricity Measuring and Management Software

2009–2010

Real-Time Gesture Recognition: A Human Computer Interaction Solution
Search Engine Optimisation
A Multimedia Solution to Distance and E-Learning
Interactive Campus Map
Semantic ePortfolio Development
On-line book store
Accessing Multiple Repositories within an XSL Transformation Cloud Service
Automated (Computer-Based) Examinations System
Mobile Phone Fitness Application