Derek McAuley

Derek McAuley
Institutions	University of Nottingham
Alma mater	University of Cambridge
Thesis	Protocol Design for High Speed Networks (1989)
Doctoral advisor	Ian Leslie
Website www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~drm/

Derek Robert McAuley is a British academic who is Professor of Digital Economy in the School of Computer Science at the University of Nottingham^[1] and Director of Horizon Digital Economy Research,^[2] an interdisciplinary research institute funded through the RCUK Digital Economy programme.^[3] He is Special Advisor to the House of Lords European Union Committee, and works closely with the Digital Catapult as an adviser on their personal data programme.^[4] He is a Fellow of the British Computer Society and member of the UKCRC, a computing research expert panel of the Institution of Engineering and Technology and BCS.^[5]

Academic career

McAuley undertook his PhD. in Computer Science at Cambridge University Computer Laboratory for which his thesis topic was Protocol Design for High Speed Networks. From 1990 to 1995 McAuley was a Lecturer at the Computer Laboratory at the University of Cambridge. In 1995 he became a Professor in Computer Science at the University of Glasgow, a position which he held until 1997. In 2009 he moved to the University of Nottingham as Professor of Digital Economy and Director of the Horizon Digital Economy Research Hub.

Career in industry

McAuley returned to Cambridge in July 1997, as co-founder and Deputy Director of the Cambridge Microsoft Research facility. He then founded Intel Research Cambridge in 2002 and held the position of Director until 2005 before undertaking role as Staff Architect at Intel’s Systems Technology Lab in Oregon. In August 2006, McAuley joined the start-up company XenSource Ltd as a Senior Director prior to its acquisition by Citrix. In 2007 he then moved to Netronome as Chief Technology Officer, a position he held until December 2008.

Research

McAuley’s current research expertise is in ubiquitous computing, computer architecture, networking, distributed systems and operating systems. He is also interested in the interdisciplinary issues of ethics, identity, privacy, information policy, legislation and economics within a digital society. A full list of recent publications is published on the University of Nottingham website.^[6]

References

1. "Derek McAuley - The University of Nottingham". Nottingham.ac.uk. 2013-09-12. Retrieved 2014-01-20.
2. "Operations and Directors of Horizon". Horizon.ac.uk. Retrieved 2014-01-20.
3. "Research Hubs - RCUK". Rcuk.ac.uk. 2012-02-23. Retrieved 2014-01-20.
4. "Connected Digital Economy - Meet the Team". Cde.catapult.org.uk. Retrieved 2014-01-20.
5. "Members of UKCRC - The IET". Ukcrc.org.uk. Retrieved 2014-01-20.
6. "Derek McAuley - The University of Nottingham". Nottingham.ac.uk. 2013-09-12. Retrieved 2014-01-20.