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BioAaron Quigley - BA(mod), MA, PhD FBCS CITP
Short
Bio 2009
Dr. Aaron Quigley is moving in December 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. He is currently an academic staff member of the School of Computer Science & Informatics in the Complex and Adaptive Systems Laboratory, University
College Dublin, Ireland. He is a Co-Principal Investigator for the SFI Strategic Research Cluster Clique on Graph and Network Analysis, an IBM
CAS Visiting Scientist, UCD director of ODCSSS, coordinator for the
EU FP7 support action CAPSIL, a
researcher in Lero the
Irish Software Engineering Research Centre and a collaborator in CLARITY the Centre for Sensor Web Technologies. In addition he is the UCD PI for Dviz, a collaborative digital technology research project between Twelve Horses, IADT and UCD which is funded by the NDRC.
Dr. Quigley's 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. He is the upcoming workshops co-chair for Pervasive 2010 in Helsinki Finland, the conference co-chair for I-HCI 2009 the third conference of the Irish HCI Community, the tutorials co-chair for the IEEE Tabletop and Interactive Surfaces 2009 and serves on the program committees of several leading
international conferences. Recently he was the editor of a special issue on interaction with coupled and public displays in the Springer Journal of Personal and Ubiquitous Computing and was program co-chair for the 4th International Symposium on
Location- and Context-Awareness (LoCA 2009) in Tokyo Japan in May 2009.
Dr. Quigley has
published 100 internationally peer-reviewed publications including edited
volumes, journal papers, book chapters, conference and workshop papers and holds 3 patents.
His current
team consists of 10 including; 7 postgraduate students and 3
postdocs . He has graduated 2 PhDs, 1 MSc, 6 Minor MSc students and over 16 honours students. His current research projects are funded by the SFI, NDRC, IRCSET, IBM, Microsoft and the EU (FP7). While some of his students will join him in the HITLab his overall team is growing smaller in anticipation of his move to Australia at the end of this year.
Dr. Quigley a Chartered Fellow of the British Computer Society (BCS), a senior member of the IEEE, a member of the ACM and recipient of National Institute of Engineers Australia award for excellence in engineering education.
Long Bio
Dr. Aaron Quigley is moving in December 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. He is currently an
academic staff member of the School of Computer Science & Informatics in the Complex and Adaptive Systems Laboratory, University
College Dublin, Ireland. He has published 100 internationally peer-reviewed publications including edited volumes, journal papers, book chapters, conference and workshop papers . His current team consists of 10 including; 7 postgraduate students (Neil Cowzer, Michael Farrugia, Travis Green, Thomas Holland, Umer Rashid, Ross Shannon and Brendan Sheehan) and 3 postdocs. He has graduated 2 PhDs, 1 MSc, 6 Minor MSc students and over 16 honours/final year project students. His current research projects are funded by the SFI, NDRC, IRCSET, IBM, Microsoft and the EU under the FP7 program.
Aaron is a Co-Principal Investigator for the SFI Strategic Research Cluster Clique on Graph and Network Analysis. He is the co-ordinator for CAPSIL an EU FP7 funded Support Action that aims to realise an "International Support of a Common Awareness and Knowledge Platform for Studying and Enabling Independent Living". He is the UCD director for ODCSSS an SFI funded UREKA site. He is a researcher in Lero the Irish Software Engineering Research Centre an SFI funded CSET and is collaborator on CLARITY the Centre for Sensor Web Technologies an SFI funded CSET. Aaron is one of the inventors of the SenseTile platform which is now being realised as a research infrastructure funded by the Science Foundation Ireland via the UCD CASL SenseTile grant. Locally, his a member of UCD's research IT steering committee.
Aaron maintains strong links with local and international industry partners. He is a visiting scientist with the IBM Dublin Centre for Advanced Studies (CAS), has successfully completed the NOVA UCD campus company development program and holds 3 patents. He is UCD PI for the Dviz project which is a collaborative digital technology research project (start-up) between Twelve Horses, IADT and UCD and is funded by the NDRC.
Aaron has examined Masters and PhD theses for Australian National University, Australia (rank 16), University of Sydney, Australia (rank 37), The University of New South Wales (rank 45), Trinity College Dublin Ireland (rank 49), University College Dublin Ireland (108), Lancaster University UK (rank 170) THES World University Rankings 2008. He has also have been involved in the review of international funded research grants for the EPSRC UK (€1,300,000), NSERC Canada (€450,000) and as an engineering grant panelist for the Foundation for Science and the Technology Portugal (€2,500,000).
Some of his past responsibilities in UCD have included, being course director for the higher
diploma in Computer Science UCD (2007-2009), member of the EMPS Graduate Taught
Programmes Board (2007 - 2009) and principal
investigator for the technology platform strand of the TRIL Centre (2007 - 2009). The TRIL Centre
(Technology Research for Independent Living) is an Intel/IDA funded project. During his tenure as PI he grew the technology platform team by
50%, released the BioMOBIUS research platform to the research community
(Apr 2008), relocated the TTP team to the research environment of the
Complex and Adaptive Systems Laboratory UCD, proposed, planned and
delivered 3 international workshops at Intel research Amberglen,
Portland, EMBS Conference, Vancouver, Canada and the University College
Dublin in conjunction with the EMEA research conference, directed the
team in the development and deployment of technology into homes to
support trials by the three clinical strands and submitted journal and
conference papers and published various workshop papers.
Aaron has previously worked as a senior research fellow in the University of Sydney Australia (02-05), a visiting scientist with Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs (MERL) in Cambridge Massachusetts USA (01-02), an associate lecturer in the University of Newcastle Australia (98-01) and an ALT in Saga Ken Japan (95-97). Aaron received his PhD from the University of Newcastle, Australia in 2002 and a first class honours degree in Computer Science from Trinity College Dublin, Ireland in 1995. He has developed a broad range of experience with academic activities, inter-disciplinary and industrial research over the past 13 years in positions in industry and academia. His doctoral work was nominated for best thesis award in Australia as was his first graduate student's thesis.
During his time as a Senior Research Fellow in the University of Sydney he led Project Nightingale, the first collaborative CRC-NICTA project in Australia. Project Nightingale focussed on how elders share memories and the project produced a number of demonstrators including Memento, SharePic and the Ubicomp Scrapbook along with a number of leading conference and journal publications incorporating user studies with elders.
Aaron's 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. He has have held positions on over 50 conference and workshop international program committees. In addition, he has had leading roles in the organisation of more than ten international conferences and workshops. Recent examples include as, Workshop Co-Chair, Pervasive 2010 - The Eighth International Conference on Pervasive Computing, Helsinki Finland May 2010, Tutorials Co-Chair, Tabletop 2009 - IEEE Tabletop and Interactive Surfaces 2009, Banff Canada Nov 2009, Conference Co-Chair, I-HCI 2009 the third conference of the Irish HCI Community, Program Co-Chair, Pervasive Advertising Workshop @ Pervasive 2009, Nara Japan May 2009, Program Committee Member, Pervasive 2009 - The Seventh International Conference on Pervasive Computing, Nara Japan May 2009 and Program Chair, 4th International Symposium on Location and Context Awareness LoCA 2009, Tokyo Japan May 2009.
Aaron has taught a wide range of undergraduate and postgraduate courses. He is on the Editorial Board for the JPCC - International Journal of Pervasive Computing and Communications, he sits on the steering committee for Pervasive Computing, he is a core member of the ARC Research Network in Enterprise Information Infrastructure in Australia and is an associate member of the ARC/NHMRC Research Network in Ageing Well.
Dr. Quigley a Chartered Fellow of the British Computer Society (BCS),
a senior member of the IEEE, a member of the ACM and recipient of
National Institute of Engineers Australia award for excellence in
engineering education.
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