- Prof. Jonathan Pitts‘ spin-out company, Actual Experience, has won a prestigious industry award for innovation. They have also just completed a £4 million financing round with one of Europe’s largest investment managers. The full story can be found here (December).
- Dr. Stefan Poslad has been quoted in the Independent, discussing the future impact of the Internet of Things (December).
- Paper “Multiplex Page Rank” by Dr. Raul Mondragon has been published in PlosOne. This is one of the most highly cited journals in information sciences, with an impact factor of 3.7 (November).
- Dr. John Schormans has been awarded a Queen Mary Innovation grant to study emerging Internet of Things (IoT) traffic patterns (November).
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Mr. Iftekharul Mobin has successfully defended his PhD thesis, “Energy Efficient Packet Size Optimization for Wireless Ad Hoc Networks” (November).
- Prof. Steve Uhlig and Dr. Felix Cuadrado have received a grant from Cisco Systems to work on the project “Software-Defined Networking for Orchestration of Cloud Applications” (November).
- Sabri E Zaman has received the best presentation award at the IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP’13) PhD Forum. This is one of the premier conferences for networks research with typical acceptance rates below 20% (October).
- Dr. Stefan Poslad is the guest editor on a Special Issue on Adaptive Security for the Internet of Things (October).
- Dr. Gareth Tyson has been appointed publicity chair for the INFOCOM CrossCloud Workshop on cloud interoperability. INFOCOM is the IEEE’s premier conference on networked communications (October).
- The Networks group will be hosting the 6th International Workshop on Traffic Monitoring and Analysis (TMA’14), co-chaired by Prof. Steve Uhlig (October).
- Queen Mary has seen a large jump in the QS World University Rankings this year, from 147th to 115th globally. This now places us as one of the Top 50 European universities (September).
- Dr. Stefan Poslad has been awarded a Queen Mary Innovation grant with UK industrial partner Mudlark, to customise and evaluate a new transport mode profiling mobile app (September).
- Ms. Kejiong Li has successfully defended her PhD thesis “Indoor and Outdoor Location Estimation in Large Areas Using Received Signal Strength” (August).
- Dr. Hamed Haddadi has been elected to the ACM SIGCOMM Executive Committee as the Information Services Director (August).
- Dr. Eliane Bodanese, in collaboration with the University of Cambridge, has been successful in winning one of the two EPSRC’s IT as a Utility research grants for her project proposal “Using Wireless Networks to Support First Responders and Resilience in Upland Areas”. As part of this, she will be developing new technologies to better assist civilians who are lost or injured without traditional cellular communications. Work on the project will be starting this month (August).
- The ACM SIGCOMM eBook “Recent Advances in Networking” has been released, edited by Dr. Hamed Haddadi, with one chapter written by Prof. Steve Uhlig entitled “Collaboration Opportunities for Content Delivery and Network Infrastructures” (August).
- Dr. Maged Elkashlan has been appointed the lead editor on the Special Issue “Green Media: The Future of Wireless Multimedia Networks” of the IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine (August).
- Paper “Pushing ISP-CDN Collaboration to the Limit” by Prof. Steve Uhlig has been published in ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review. Acceptance rates for CCR are typically under 15% (August).
- Paper “Demystifying Porn 2.0: A look into a Major Adult Video Streaming Website” by Dr. Gareth Tyson and Prof. Steve Uhlig has been accepted in the ACM SIGCOMM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC’13). This is the premier conference for Internet measurement research. This year’s acceptance rate was 22% (July).
- Dr. Stefan Poslad is co-chairing the UBICOMP International Workshop on Adaptive Security & Privacy management for the Internet of Things (ASPI’13). UBICOMP, held in Zurich this year, is the leading conference for worldwide research in Pervasive and Ubiquitous computing (July).
- Paper “Optimal Cache Allocation for Content-Centric Networking” by Dr. Gareth Tyson and Prof. Steve Uhlig has been accepted in the IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP’13). This is one of the premier conferences for networks research. This year’s acceptance rate was 18% (July).
- Dr. Gareth Tyson won this year’s Brendan Murphy Memorial Young Researcher Prize for his presentation at MSN’13 at Cosener’s House (July).
- Paper “Cognitive MIMO Relaying in Nakagami-m Fading” by Dr. Maged Elkashlan has received the best paper award at the IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC) (June).
- Mr. Bob Chew has successfully defended his PhD thesis “Modelling Message-Oriented-Middleware Brokers using Autoregressive Models for Bottleneck Prediction”. Bob has recently gained a position with KPMG in London, based upon his PhD experience (June).
- Mr. Fei Peng has successfully defended his PhD thesis “Integration of TV White Space and Femtocell Networks” (June).
- Dr. Maged Elkashlan is organising the GLOBECOM Workshop on Trusted Communications with Physical Layer Security (TCPLS’13). GLOBECOM is one of the two flagship conferences of the IEEE Communications Society (June).
- Mr. Ammar Lilamwala has successfully defended his PhD thesis ” Quantifying the cost benefit of configuring active queue management based quality of service policies on router interfaces” (May).
- Ms. Ling Xu has successfully defended her PhD thesis “Planning Simulation Run Length in Packet Queues in Communications Networks” (May).
- Dr. Maged Elkashlan has been appointed editor on a number of prestigious journals, including IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, IEEE Communications Letters and IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology.
- Dr. Siamak Tavakoli, who worked as a fixed-term Post-Doctoral Research Associate on the EU FP7 TRIDEC Project, has left to become a Lead Firmware Engineer at the Microsoft Computational Science Lab, Cambridge. There, he works on the development and testing of autonomous flying vehicles.
- The EU FP7 TRIDEC Project, where Dr. Stefan Poslad leads the core system architecture work, has been honoured with the IRM Global Risk Award 2013 in the category ‘Managing Risks across Boundaries’. The Institute of Risk Management (IRM) is the world’s leading enterprise-wide risk education institute. As a non-for-profit organization, IRM believes in the importance of risk management and that investment in education and continual professional development leads to more effective risk management. The award winners were revealed at the prestigious Grand Connaught Rooms in London on February 28, 2013, with around 350 leading international risk professionals attending. The TRIDEC Project was able to prevail against the Intel Corporation, SAP AG, Nest Investment Holdings, and Parsons Brinkerhoff that were also nominated in this category.
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