CV

Qualifications

Doctorate of Philosophy in Computer Engineering
Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA, USA, May 2009
Dissertation: “Algebraic Codes for Random Linear Network Coding”
Master of Science in Computer Engineering
Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA, USA, December 2005
Thesis: “Cryptosystems Using Error-Correcting Codes Based on the Rank Metric”
Diplôme d’ingénieur
ESIGELEC, Saint-Etienne du Rouvray, France, December 2004
Equivalent to Master of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering

Associate Professor
Department of Computer Science, Durham University
October 2016–Present
Lecturer
School of Engineering and Computing Sciences, Durham University
January 2012–September 2016
Post-doctoral Research Assistant
School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, Queen Mary, University of London
June 2010–December 2011
EPSRC Project title: Information Flows and Information Bottlenecks in Network Coding
Post-doctoral Researcher
CReSTIC Laboratory, Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne
June 2009–May 2010
ANR RISC Project (Intelligent Heterogeneous Networks for Emergency Situations)
Demonstrator
College of Humanities, Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne
February 2010–May 2010
Research Assistant
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Lehigh University
May 2005–May 2009
Teaching Assistant
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Lehigh University
January 2004–May 2005

Royal Society International Exchanges Scheme – Cost Share Programme
Title: “Cellular Automata and Boolean networks”
Dates: February, 2018 to February 27, 2020
LMS Computer Science small grant
Title: “Using Finite Dynamical Systems to study epidemics on coherent networks”
Dates: May 15, 2017 to May 19, 2017
EPSRC First Grant
Title: “Memoryless computation and network coding”
Dates: February 17, 2014 to June 30, 2016
Royal Society International Exchanges Scheme – Cost Share Programme
Title: “Boolean networks, network coding and memoryless computation”
Dates: January 01, 2014 to December 31, 2016
LMS Celebrating New Appointments
Title: “Network coding, partitions, and security”
Meeting date: November 20, 2013

Karl Southern
The Side-Channel Resistance of Error Correcting Codes for Post Quantum Cryptography
PhD in Computer Science, Durham University, 2023
Izzy Friedlander
The MacWilliams Identity for Krawtchouk Association Schemes
PhD in Computer Science, Durham University, 2023

Daniel Thomas
Topics in Graph Theory: Extremal Intersecting Systems, Perfect Graphs, and Bireflexive Graphs
PhD in Computer Science, Durham University, 2020
Mohammed Alatiyyah
Personalization Models for Travel Recommender Systems
Phd in Computer Science, Durham University, 2019
Peter Fenner
Some algorithmic problems in monoids of Boolean matrices
PhD in Mathematics, University of Manchester, 2018
Luca Mariot
Cellular Automata, Boolean Functions and Combinatorial Designs
PhD in Computer Science, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca and Université Nice Sophia Antipolis, 2018
Wuling Liu
On a Generalised Typicality and its Application to Information Theory
PhD in Electronic Engineering, The University of Sheffield, 2017
Jessica Claridge
On network coding
PhD in Mathematics, Royal Holloway, University of London, 2016
Foad Lotfifar
Hypergraph Partitioning in the Cloud
PhD in Computer Science, Durham University, 2016
Anirban Ghatak
Algebraic Techniques for Error Correction in Random Networks
PhD in Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, 2014
Lana Iwaza
Robust joint source-network coding and decoding
PhD in Physics, Université Paris-Sud, 2013
Marcin Krzywkowski
Hat problem on a graph
PhD in Mathematics, University of Exeter, 2012

AUTOMATA 2024
30th International Workshop on Cellular Automata and Discrete Complex Systems
22nd – 24th July 2024
Durham University
BCC 2021
28th British Combinatorial Conference
5th – 9th July 2021
Delivered Online from Durham University

AUTOMATA 2023
29th International Workshop on Cellular Automata and Discrete Complex Systems
Trieste, Italy, August-September 2023
AUTOMATA 2019
25th International Workshop on Cellular Automata and Discrete Complex Systems
Guadalajara, Mexico, June 2019
ACA 2018
Fifth International Workshop on Asynchronous Cellular Automata and Asynchronous Discrete Models
Como, Italy, September 2018
IEACon 2016
2016 IEEE Industrial Electronics and Applications Conference
Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia, November 2016
ACA 2016
Fourth International Workshop on Asynchronous Cellular Automata and Asynchronous Discrete Models
Fes, Morocco, 2016
ICSECS 2015
The 4th International Conference on Software Engineering & Computer Systems
Kuantan, Malaysia, August 2015
ISIEA2014
2014 IEEE Symposium on Industrial Electronics & Applications
Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia, September-October 2014
ISCI 2014
2014 IEEE Symposium on Computers & Informatics
Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia, September 2014
ISCAIE 2014
2014 IEEE Symposium on Computer Applications & Industrial Electronics
Penang, Malaysia, April 2014
CyberC 2012
International Conference on Cyber-enabled distributed computing and knowledge discovery
Sanya, China, October 2012

2008, 2009, 2011-13, 2015, 2017, 2019 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory
2010 IEEE Information Theory Workshop
2011 IEEE International Symposium on Network Coding
2011 International Conference on Cyber-enabled distributed computing and knowledge discovery
2012 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference
2013 International Workshop on Coding and Cryptography
2013 International Workshop on Combinatorial Algorithms
2014 IEEE Symposium on Computer Applications and Industrial Electronics
2015 Annual Conference on Theory and Applications of Models of Computation
2019 International Workshop on Signal Design and its Applications in Communications

Last updated: 25/01/2024