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PERSONAL DETAILS

 

Full Name: Dr. Daniel Roy Hughes    DoB: 12/03/1980     Nationality: British

 

Address: 7 Red Cat Lane, Crank, St. Helens, Merseyside, UK. WA11 8RU

 

RESEARCH / EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

 

Research Interests: Wireless Sensor Networks, Middleware, Distributed Systems and Peer-to-Peer and Embedded Systems.

 

Current Jobs:

Lecturer and Faculty Member of Xi’an Jiatong-Liverpool Unversity, Suzhou, China [Primary Position].

Visiting researcher with Katholieke Universitiet of Leuven, Belgium.

Visiting researcher with the Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil.

 

Previous Jobs:

Senior Research Associate on the STADiUM project, senior research associate on the FREE (Flood risk from Extreme Events) project, Co-investigator of the Isis Project (protecting children online), Director and co-founder of Isis Forensics - a security consultancy firm, Visiting Scholar at U.C. Berkeley, Research Associate on the North West Grid project at Lancaster University and Undergraduate Tutor at Lancaster University.

 

TEACHING

 

Primary Lecturer: I teach XJTLUs Algorithmic Efficiency course (fall semester) and Advanced Wed Technologies course (spring semester).

 

Guest Lecturer: I have given guest lectures at Lancaster and Mannheim University as well as governmental institutions such as the USGS water science centre.

 

Dissertation Project Supervision: I have suggested and co-supervised undergraduate and postgraduate projects in the fields of environmental informatics and distributed systems as well as supervising a postgraduate management intern in my capacity as director of Isis Forensics.

 

 

EDUCATION

 

2009 – 2011 Certificate in Professional Studies (CPS), Liverpool University.

 

2002 – 2007 PhD Adaptive Peer to Peer Systems, Lancaster University.

 

2001 – 2002 MSc Distributed Interactive Systems, Lancaster University.

 

1998 – 2001 BSc Computer Science, Lancaster University.

 

PUBLICATIONS, GRANTS AND AWARDS

 

Over 50 papers in internationally-recognized books, journals, conferences and workshops. My full publication list can be found on my RESEARCH PAGE.

 

Co-author and co-investigator of the £500,000 EPSRC-funded Isis project proposal. Recipient of a £2,000 educational grant from Amazon.com, co-author and co-investigator of a £5,000 grant from the Ministry of Science and Tecnologia, Brazil to support visiting research at Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil. Secured various FST research and travel grants totaling over £2,000 along with a £1,400 ERDF grant for Isis Forensics.

 

My work earned the best paper award at both ICIW’07 and AHM’06. I also chaired the Midsens’09, Midsens’08, MIDSENS’09 and EnSys’07 workshops. I also served on the advisory committee for ADAPTIVE’09 and on the program committee of several international conferences and journals. I am also an editorial board member for the International Journal of Computer and Electrical Engineering (IJCEE).

 

SKILLS / EXPERIENCE

 

I am an experienced programmer, familiar with a number of languages.

 

Project Management: Driving research strategy, managing junior researchers, interns and students, maintaining relations with partner institutions, planning purchasing decisions etc.

 

Business: Founder and director of a security consultancy firm. Experience of bringing new products to market.

 

Presentation: I have extensive experience presenting to a range of academic, business, industrial and governmental audiences in more than 10 different countries, including guest lectures and invited speeches.

 

 

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