Research

I am currently a member of the Algorithmic Human Development group in the Department of Computing at Imperial College London.

I am also interested in the use of technology for economic development in rural areas (especially in the areas of literacy, health care and commerce) in developing countries.

In the past, I worked as a post-doctoral research associate and was part of the Distributed Software Engineering Group in the department. I was initially part of the "Self Management framework for Unmanned Autonomous Vehicles (UAVs)" project. The aim of the project was to develop a distributed policy-based self-management framework for UAVs. My work revolved around techniques for authentication, key management and group management in the presence of communication and link failures in groups of UAVs. This was implemented on the Webots mobile robotics simulator and supported by robot-based demonstrations.

After the previous project was over, I started to work on the Consequence project, a data-centric information protection framework based on data-sharing agreements. The ability of this framework to perform correctly is enhanced by having it run on trusted platforms. I worked on the design and implementation of the framework on Trusted Platforms, more specifically the Trusted Platform Module.

Moving on from Consequence, I worked on the Homework project, which aimed to investigate the creation of entirely new network architectures which take into account both human and technical considerations. By studying the use of computer networks in the home, it is intended to create the next generation of domestic infrastructure that combines empirical understanding of use with a fundamental re-invention of the protocols, models and architectures of the domestic setting.

My PhD dissertation involved developing an architecture and a set of protocols for service and application deployment in ubiquitous environments. The basic tenet of my work is that service discovery is a key enabling technology to support interactions among heterogeneous devices in ubiquitous environments.

You can find more information about my work and my papers in the Publications section.