2016 Curriculum Vitae Stefan
Poslad (Short)
(Dr.) Stefan
Poslad (PhD) is currently a Senior lecturer (roughly equivalent to US-style
Associate Professor) in the School of
Electronic Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) at Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) and a
member of the Networks
Research Lab/Group and the Centre for Intelligent Sensing (CIS). I have a PhD in medical
informatics from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK (1986); M.Sc.
Medical Physics (1982) and a B.Sc. Physics from University of Southampton
(1981). I am a member of the IEEE. Previously, I was a lecturer at QMUL (2000-2012); a Nortel
Networks funded Research Fellow, Imperial College (1997-2000); a Senior
Lecturer/lecturer, Dept. Computing, University of Westminster (1991-1997); a
Marquette Electronics funded Research Fellow, Royal Post Graduate Medical
School, University of London ( 1988-1991) and a research fellow at University of Muenster,
Germany (1987).
My primary research focus is Ubiquitous Computing
or Pervasive
Computing (related terms also include Internet of Things,
Ambient Intelligence, smart-devices
including mobile devices and smart-environments).
This describes how current technology models based upon distributed computing,
human computer interaction, artificial intelligence, context-awareness
(including personalised multimedia content, location and mobility awareness)
and autonomous systems can be applied to, and can evolve to, promote a future
vision of computing where computing is more strongly aware of physical world
and human use contexts. The secondary research focus is on Smarter
and richer interaction between services, devices and people (including Web services,
Semantic Web and MultiAgent System interaction);
on the management of distributed systems (including, scalability, security,
safety or resilience, trust and privacy issues).
I have been a Principal Investigator (PI) on 15 EU and UK
EPSRC collaborative industry projects since 2000, covering context awareness,
intelligent systems, trust, mobile services, environment informatics and
personalisation. This has brought over 1.5 Million pounds of research funding
to QMUL on projects worth over 16.5 million pounds. . I was technical coordinator of the
EU Project (CRUMPET) that developed a micro agent platform version of FIPA-OS
and produced two new FIPA agent standards. I was PI on the EU FP5 Project AgentCities.RTD that was short-listed for the prestigious
EU Descartes prize in 2004. I was PI and WP leader and chief architect for the
EDEN-IW environment information system and project.
I have 30 journal publications (25 in computer science, 4 in medical physics and 1 in physics), 9 Springer Verlag articles, plus over 60 refereed conference papers (including 3 keynote ones). I have given invited talks at Microsoft, IBM, France Telecom and the University of Cambridge. I have written, as sole author, a major cross-disciplinary book in the field of ubiquitous computing in 2009. It has so far been adopted as a course text by over 70 universities worldwide across 6 continents and has been cited over 435 times as a research article.
Best Paper Awards:
Research Project Awards
2013 TRIDEC FP7 IP Project on communication and decision
support during environment crises was the winner of IRM’s Global Risk Award
2013 for the category Managing risk across boundaries,
I was the PI, and core Architecture WP leader.
2012 SUNSET FP7 STREP Project on Social network based
incentivised smart mobility, was the top ranked project in the call. I was of
the core writers for the whole proposal and I am the requirements and scenarios
WP leader. This was invited (only project from the DG ICT for Transport to
participate) to the EU parliament 2012 exhibition called "Made in Europe –
ICT building blocks tackling societal challenges" (email
gouvras@ec.europa.eu).
2004, EU FP5 Project AgentCities.RTD
that was short-listed for the prestigious EU Descartes prize, where I was the
PI.
Other awards
2013-14 Joint Program with BUPT university prize Excellent Project Supervisor Award
Editorial Boards:
• 2014-present:
Sensors is the top journal on sensors in computer science with an IF= 2.5
• 2013-present
International Journal of Pervasive Computing and Communications
• 2013-present
International Journal for Advancements in AI
Visiting Professor:
• 2013-to
date IETLab, Beijing University of Post Telecoms
(BUPT), Beijing, China
• 2014-2017 Wuxi Taihu University, Wuxi, China
IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems (2016); Percom (1 of the 2 top conferences in pervasive Computing) Doctoral Track (2016); MoMM, Int. Conf. on Advances in Mobile Computing and Multimedia (2015); International Conference on Connected Vehicles & Expo (2015, 2013); Mobility Conference (2015); Neurocomputing J (2014); International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence (2014); International Journal of Pervasive Computing and Communication (2014); ACM ToIT, Transactions on Internet Technology (2014); MDPI Sensors (multiple times 2014 to-date); Engineering Applications in Artificial Intelligence (2014); ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems (2013); ECIS, European Conference on Information Systems (2013)
16 Ph.D. Examined:
Imperial College (April 2002, December 2002); Royal Holloway (2003);
University Automata Barcelona (2002), University of Helsinki (2002), University
College Dublin (2003, 2010), Oxford Brookes (2004), University of Westminster
(2004), UCL (2006), Queen Mary (2010); Royal Holloway (2011), Birkbeck (2011), Cardiff (2012), La Trobe University,
Australia (2013), King’s College London (2015).
2016-2019: External examiner for the MSc BIS, Business and
Information Systems, a joint project with the School of Management at Royal
Holloway (contact yura@cs.rhul.ac.uk).
Judging panel for the finalists of the International Talent
Technology Entrepreneurship Challenge (iTEC 2014)
organised by the China-Britain Science and Culture Association (CBSCA), see
http://www.cbbc.org/whatson/events/award-presentation-closing-ceremony-2014-internati/.
Recent Conferences / Workshops organised
·
2016: 12th International Conference on
Intelligent Environments, IE'16, Program Chair.
·
2016: Editor and organiser for Informatics
Journal Special issue on Ubiquitous Computing
·
2013: International Workshop on Adaptive
Security & Privacy management for the Internet of Things (ASPI) at the ACM
International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp), Organiser Program Chair.
Before 2012, I organised 6 others.
I was Project co-ordinator / QMUL Principal Investigator
(PI) for EU FP5 project: CRUMPET (Creation of User-friendly Mobile services PErsonalised for Tourism
I was the PI and work-package leader on the following 6 projects: EU FP7 project: SUNSET 2012: WP1 (Requirements and Scenarios); EU FP7 project: TRIDEC: WP3 (System Architecture); EU FP7 project: My eDirector 2012: WP5 (Personalisation); EU FP5 project. EDEN-IW: WP1 (architecture); EU FP5 Project CRUMPET: WP1 (management); EPSRC Industrial Case Studentship, Context-aware Worker, with BT, EPC137831.
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