- I'm now a
Professor of Applied Quantitative Analysis in the
Department of Computing at Imperial. My broad area of research
interest is the application of mathematical modelling techniques to
real life systems. Specific areas of interest include, but are not
limited to, modelling and optimisation in parallel queueing systems
(especially split-merge and fork-join systems), modelling of storage
systems, stochastic modelling of sport, stochastic modelling of
healthcare systems, resource allocation and control in cloud-computing
environments, numerical solution of (semi-)Markov models and
specification techniques for SLA specification, compliance prediction
and monitoring.
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As Director of
the Imperial
College Centre for Cryptocurrency Research and Engineering, my
research interests also encompass all aspects of cryptocurrencies,
blockchains, distributed ledgers and smart contracts. I am especially
interested in novel applications of these technologies. I also
undertake expert witness work in the area of cryptocurrency and blockchain.
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Current research grants include UKFIN Network Plus
(£2.5m, EPSRC, Co-Investigator), Post-Quantum Blockchains based
on FALCON++ (£897K, EPSRC, Co-Investigator) and Blockchain Lorawan Optimising Chain-of-Custody (BLOCC) (£198K, Innovate UK, Principal Investigator). Past research grants have
included the Digital Asset Research Lab (£400K, Blockchain (GB)
Ltd, Principal Investigator with Cathy Mulligan), the Outlier Ventures
Blockchain Programme (£500K, Outlier Ventures, Principal
Investigator with Cathy Mulligan), Digital Asset Indices Research
Programme (£600K, CoinShares, Principal Investigator), Gateway for funding and
Impact Validation using Ethereum (GIVE) (£75K, Innovate UK,
Principal Investigator
with Cathy Mulligan), Film Acceleration via Innovative Revenue sharing
(FAIR) (£75K, Innovate UK, Principal Investigator) and Smart
Contract & Productivity Platform for Livestock (BREEDR) (£130K, Innovate UK,
Principal Investigator),
Intelligent
Management of Big Data Storage (£368K, EPSRC
responsive mode, Co-Investigator with P.G. Harrison and G. Casale),
ModaCLOUDS (£482K,
EU FP 7, Co-Investigator with G. Casale and P.G. Harrison),
Development of Novel Computational Strategies to Store and Interpret Next Generation Sequencing Data and Their Application to Multi-Genomic Analyses (£99.9K, BBSRC, Co-Investigator with M. Sternberg, S. Butcher and C. Raczy),
Analysis of Massively Parallel Stochastic Systems (AMPS) (£555K,
EPSRC, Co-Investigator with J.T. Bradley),
Intelligent
Performance Optimisation of Virtualised Data Storage Systems
(iPODS) (£471K, EPSRC, Principal Investigator with
P.G. Harrison), Grid-Enabled Performance Analysis using Stochastic
Logics (GRAIL) (£439K, EPSRC, Principal Investigator with
J.T. Bradley and P.G. Harrison)
and Passage
Times in Large Markov and Semi-Markov
Chains (PASTRAMI) (£262K, EPSRC, Principal Investigator
with P.G. Harrison).
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My
current PhD students include
Christina Karakosta,
Padma Srinivasan,
Cristina Carata,
Madalina Sas,
Edward Pearce-Crump,
Toshiko Matsui,
Dragos Ilie,
Sam Werner,
Katerina Koutsouri,
Lewis Gudgeon,
Yin Yee Kan,
Meshaal Al-Saffar,
Zhipeng Wang,
Xihan Xiong,
Frederic Bonnevay,
and
Sirvan Almasi.
Past PhD
students of mine
include
Alexei Zamyatin,
Dominik Harz,
Shireen Seakhoa-King,
Tommi Pesu,
Silvia Vinyes,
Jack Kelly,
Nicholas
Dingle, Aleksandar
Trifunovic, Susanna
Au-Yeung, Tamas
Suto, Abigail
Lebrecht, Felipe
Franciosi,
Timothy
Leung, Nikolas
Anastasiou, Tzu-Ching
Horng, Edmund
Noon, Iryna
Tsimashenka, Polyvios
Tsirimpas, Marily
Nika, Demetris
Spanias, Wei-Chih Huang and
April Chen.
Current 2nd supervisions include Julianna Bor.
Past 2nd supervisions include Rami Khalil, Leif Lundbaek, Joshua Lind, Douglas de Jager, Richard Hayden, Chris Guenther,
Daniel Wagner, David McBride, Ting Ting Lee, Anton
Stefanek and Tib Chis. Potential PhD students are encouraged to apply.
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