Introduction

Aaron is currently an academic staff member of the School of Computer Science & Informatics in the Complex and Adaptive Systems Laboratory, University College Dublin, Ireland but in December of 2009 he is moving to become the inaugural director of the Human Interface Technology Laboratory Australia (HIT Lab AU) and an Associate Professor in the School of Computing and Information Systems in the University of Tasmania. His research interests include pervasive computing, software engineering, information visualisation, human computer interaction, graph drawing, location and context awareness, peer-to-peer computing, surface interaction and network analysis. His current team consists of 10 including; 7 postgraduate students and 3 postdocs. You can read more about him on his bio page and some comments in the media here.

Current Active Research Initiatives

• Research Group Leader (10 team members) - Pervasive Computing, Autonomic Computing, Social Network Analysis and Visualisation, Digital-Physical Computing, Human Computer Interaction, Tabletop Interaction, Information Visualisation and Algorithm Design [ Ph.D blog items ] [ Postdoc blog items ]
  
• Co-Principal Investigator for Clique an SFI Strategic Research Cluster [ Blog items ]
  
• UCD Principal Investigator for DVIZ an NDRC funded translational research project [ Blog items ]
  
• Principal Investigator and Coordinator for CAPSIL an EU FP7 coordinated action [ Blog items ]
  
• UREKA Site Applicant and UCD Director for ODCSSS an SFI UREKA grant [ Blog items ]
• Academic Investigator in Lero the Irish Software Engineering Research Centre an SFI CSET grant [ Blog items ]
  
• Collaborator in CLARITY the Centre for Sensor Web Technologies Bringing Information to Life  an SFI CSET grant [ Blog items ]
  
• Visiting scientist with IBM Dublin in the Centre for Advanced Studies
• Other Ongoing activities

Research Interests

• Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing
  
• Location and Context Awareness
• Information Visualisation
  
• Social and Biological Network Visualisation
  
• Coupled Interface Systems
  
• Human Computer Interaction (HCI/CHI).
  

Some Upcoming Research Events

• Workshop Co-Chair: Pervasive 2010 - 8th International Conference on Pervasive Computing, Helsinki Finland May 2010
• Conference Co-Chair: I-HCI 2009 - 3rd conference of the Irish HCI Community

Recent Research Events of interest

• Program Co-Chair: Pervasive Advertising Workshop @ Pervasive 2009, Nara Japan May 2009
• Program Committee Member: Pervasive 2009 - 7th International Conference on Pervasive Computing, Nara Japan May 2009
• Program Chair: LoCA 2009 - 4th International Symposium on Location and Context Awareness, Tokyo Japan May 2009 [ News item ]
  
• Program Committee Member: PerCom 2009 - 7th IEEE Int'l Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications, Mar 2009 Dallas
• Program Committee UbiComp 2008, Tenth International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing, Seoul Korea
  
• Program Co-Chair PPD'08, Workshop on designing multi-touch interaction techniques for coupled public and private displays, Naples Italy
  
• Late Breaking Results Co-Chair, Program Committee Pervasive 2008, Sixth International Conference on Pervasive Computing, Sydney Australia

Personal Interests

• Organiser for TEDxDublin hosted by the Science Gallery Dublin Ireland on June 12th 2009
  
• Reading (Current read: Ruinair (fluffy), Recently: Outliers, by Malcolm Gladwell and The Road by Cormac McCarthy)
  
• Volunteering and Cinema
  
• Travel (Upcoming Russia, Turkey, USA...)
  

Address
Dr. Aaron Quigley
Systems Research Group
Complex & Adaptive Systems Laboratory
University College Dublin
Belfield Office Park, Dublin 4, Ireland

current work email: a[insert last name]@ucd.ie
phone:     +353 1 716 5357 (with voice mail)   

For more details see his bio, current work or UCD research management system page.