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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 (WSN), Middleware, Embedded Systems, Distributed Systems and Peer-to-Peer (P2P) systems.

 

Current Jobs:

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

Free Associate with Katholieke Universitiet of Leuven, Belgium.

 

Previous Jobs:

Visiting Researcher with the Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil.

Senior Research Associate on the STADiUM project at K.U. Leuven.

Senior Research Associate on the FREE project at Lancaster University.

Co-investigator of the Isis Project at Lancaster University.

Director and co-founder of Isis Forensics, a security consultancy firm.

Visiting Scholar at the University of California at Berkeley.

Research Associate on the North West Grid project at Lancaster University.

 

TEACHING

 

Primary Lecturer: I teach the Algorithmic Efficiency course (fall semester), Advanced Wed Technologies course (spring semester) and the Final Year Project module (both semesters) at XJTLU.

 

 

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

 

 

EDUCATION

 

2009 – 2012 Certificate in Professional Studies (CPS), Liverpool University.

 

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

 

2001 – 2002 MSc in Distributed Interactive Systems, Lancaster University.

 

1998 – 2001 BSc in Computer Science, Lancaster University.

 

PUBLICATIONS, GRANTS AND AWARDS

 

Over 65 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. Co-investigator of a $10,000 grant from the XJTLU Research Development Fund to support the application of formal methods to WSN application development. Recipient of a $5,000 grant from the Suzhou government to support the IEEE NESEA 2010 conference. Recipient of a $3,000 educational grant from Amazon.com. Co-investigator of an $8,000 grant from the Ministry of Science and Tecnologia, Brazil to support visiting research at Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil. Recipient of various FST research and travel grants totaling over $3,000 along with a $2,000 ERDF grant for Isis Forensics.

 

My work earned the best paper award at both ICIW’07 and AHM’06. I chaired the NESEA’10 conference and the MidSens’10, Midsens’09, Midsens’08 and EnSys’07 workshops. I also serve 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 several countries, including guest lectures and invited speeches.

 

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