I'm a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in the School of Computing Science at the University of Glasgow and the current chair of the Internet Research Task Force.
My research interests are on network transport protocols, with a particular focus on transport protocols for real-time and interactive multimedia, and on network protocol design, implementation, and specification. My current research is into post-Sockets APIs and transport services, the implications of QUIC on real-time applications and network operations, and improving the way we specify network protocol standards.
I'm a long-time participant in the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). I co-chair the RTP Media Congestion Avoidance Techniques working group, and was previously co-chair of the Audio/Video Transport and Multiparty Multimedia Session Control working groups. I played a key role in helping to develop globally deployed standard multimedia transport and signalling protocols such as RTP, SDP, and the WebRTC media transport layer.
I received my BEng in Electronic Engineering in 1992, and my DPhil in 1996, both from the Department of Electronics at the University of York. I'm a fellow of the Higher Education Academy, a senior member of the IEEE, and a member of the ACM and IET.
- 24 August 2020 photos Photos: Anniesland
- 9 August 2020 research Research service: TPC member for IAB COVID-19 Network Impacts Workshop 2020
- 7 August 2020 research Edge Computation and the Future of Transport - RA and PhD student positions available
- 4 August 2020 research Parsing Protocol Standards to Parse Standard Protocols
- 3 August 2020 standards IRTF activities co-located with IETF 108
- 30 July 2020 standards Presentation at IETF 108: Multiplexing Updates for QUIC
- 30 July 2020 publications New publication: Parsing Protocol Standards to Parse Standard Protocols
- 29 July 2020 standards Presentation at IETF 108: IRTF Plenary Report
- 28 July 2020 standards Presentation at IETF 108: IRTF Open Meeting Agenda
- 27 July 2020 standards Submitted internet-draft: draft-ietf-taps-interface-09
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