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ACSOS 2020
Mon 17 - Fri 21 August 2020
Simon Dobson

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Name:Simon Dobson
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Simon Dobson is Professor of Computer Science and Head of School in the School of Computer Science at the University of St Andrews. He works on complex and sensor systems, especially on sensor analytics and the modelling of epidemic processes over complex networks. His research has generated over 150 internationally peer-reviewed publications, driven by leadership roles in research grants worth over EUR30M – most recently as part of a £5M EPSRC-funded programme grant in the Science of Sensor Systems Software He has served, amongst other activities, on the steering committee of the ACSOS conference; as programme and general chairs for the IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing; as an associate editor of ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems; as a member of UKCRC, the expert committee on UK computing research; as the chair of the BCS Distinguished PhD Dissertations award panel; and on the programme committees of a wide range of leading international conferences and specialised workshops. He was a director and vice-president of the European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics from 2006 – 2009, and has served on a number of national and EU committees and strategic initiatives.

Simon has previously worked at the UK STFC‘s Rutherford Appleton Laboratory; at Trinity College Dublin and UCD Dublin in Ireland; and was also the founder and CEO of Aurium, a research-led Dublin-based start-up company. He holds a BSc from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne and DPhil from the University of York, both in computer science, ia a Chartered Engineer and a Fellow of the British Computer Society and the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

Country:United Kingdom
Affiliation:University of St. Andrews
Personal website: https://simondobson.org
Research interests:complex systems, adaptive systems, sensor networks, data analytics

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