Research Interests

Any system related aspect of parallel and distributed systems, including:

• Fog and Edge computing
• Cloud computing

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Current Research Opportunities

• Adaptive Runtime Reconfiguration of Edge Applications
• Distributed Intelligence in Edge Computing
• Fog/Edge Computing
• Fog/Edge Computing

Public outreach & key achievements

• Video on Fog/Edge computing research: https://youtu.be/GIEWxNNhYPw
• Press report on Edge computing research in the Belfast Telegraph, Yahoo Finance, Mail Online, AOL, Irish Examiner and over an additional 140 outlets
• Chinese press report on Edge computing research in the ​Tencent, Sohu, ifeng, Sina, China Daily, DailyEconomic and over an additional 52 outlets

Research students

Name: Ms Nan Wang
PhD title: Resource Management for Edge Computing Systems
Years of Study: 2016 - 2019
Country: China

Name: Ms Ayesha Majeed
PhD title: Context-Aware Offloading and Placement Strategies in Fog Computing
Years of Study: 2019 - 2022
Country: Pakistan

Name: Mr Fayez Alotaibi
PhD title: Edge Resource Federation in Fog Computing
Years of Study: 2019 - 2022
Country: Saudi Arabia

Alumni: Where are they now

PhD title: Optimising the Usage of Cloud Resources for Executing Bag-of-Tasks Applications
Years of Study: 2013 - 2017
Country: Vietnam
Current position: Amazon

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