ICT Forum
2013 Conference

Paul is a faculty member of the Department of Engineering Science and the BP Professor of Information Engineering at the University of Oxford. He is also a Fellow of Keble College. In 2010 he became an EPSRC Leadership Fellow.

He is one of the Information Engineering Academics that reside within the Information Engineering Building.

He researches mobile robot autonomy, navigation, mapping, scene understanding and perception and he leads the Oxford Mobile Robotics Group (MRG)

You can find much more about his research and interests on the Mobile Robotics Group home page. That website also contains publications, information on joining and visiting the group and synopsis of their current research projects.

Sadie Creese is a Professor of Cyber Security in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Oxford. She is the Director of Oxford’s Cyber Security Centre, Director of the Global Centre for Cyber Security Capacity Building at the Oxford Martin School, and a co-Director of the Institute for the Future of Computing at the Oxford Martin School. Her research experience spans time in academia, industry and government. She is engaged in a broad portfolio of cyber security research spanning situational awareness, visual analytics, risk propagation and communication, threat modelling and detection, network defence, dependability and resilience, and formal analysis. She has numerous research collaborations with other disciplines and has been leading inter-disciplinary research projects since 2003. Prior to joining Oxford in October 2011 Creese was Professor and Director of e-Security at the University of Warwick’s International Digital Laboratory. Creese joined Warwick in 2007 from QinetiQ where she most recently served as Director of Strategic Programmes for QinetiQ’s Trusted Information Management Division.

For more details, see http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/people/sadie.creese/

Ronald Haynes has been part of academic ICT in the US and UK, including as University of Bristol's first Webmaster, later Computer Manager for Selwyn College Cambridge, Deputy IT Manager for Cambridge's Cavendish Laboratory, and then  moving to the University of Cambridge Computing Service.  Having helped found Cambridge's College IT Management Group (CITMG), and later helping found and initially chair the Departmental IT Group (DITG), he remains active in supporting both groups' goals of mutual support and shared solutions.  Institutional strategy and collaboration is part of an interest in new technologies for unifying communications, including via web conferencing and related technologies.

James Davis is a senior member of Janet CSIRT. The team is responsible for coordinating the response to security across Janet, the UK's National Research and Education Network. His seven years and over 8,000 incidents at Janet bring depth of experience ranging from comprised servers and malware outbreaks, to denial of service attacks and data exfiltration.

Mihaela Damian provides project management for the CSCS computing department within the School of Clinical Medicine at Cambridge University. With a computer science background and years of hands-on experience in various IT roles including software design, development and end-user support, she entered IT project management eight years ago while working for the Careers Service department. Currently she is responsible for leading principal IT developments at CSCS, promoting and applying project management industry standards across the department and School.

Dan is the Helpdesk Team Leader at the Clinical School Computing Service and has spent the last 18 months assisting with the design and implementation of the Landesk Service Management suite. He has been working in various computer support roles for the last 13 years, including positions at the Cambridgeshire County Council and St John's College, and has a strong process driven and customer focused attitude to IT support.

Penny Schenk is the ICT Officer at the Bodleian Law Library. She grew up in the US and graduated from Williams College in Williamstown Massachusetts in 1987. She has worked in IT support at Brown University and the Rhode Island School of Design, as well as at advertising agencies and an internet startup. She and her partner moved to Oxford in 2002, and have lived on a narrowboat since 2011. She has a long-standing interest in computer graphics and all things internet, and spends too much time on Twitter.