Ronald H PERROTT

Present position : Professor of Software Engineering Address : School of Computer Science Queen's University Belfast Belfast BT7 1NN Contact : Telephone: 44 + (0)2890 975463 Facsimile: 44 + (0)2890 683890 EMail: r.perrott@qub.ac.uk

Professional Membership : 
      Fellow of the 
            Association for Computing Machinery 
            British Computer Society. 
            Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce. 
            US IEEE Computer Society
      Member of the
            IFIP Working Group  10.3 Concurrent Systems. 


Previous positions : 
      University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA 
      NASA Ames Research Center, California, USA 
      CERN, Geneva, Switzerland 
      Institute for Informatics, ETH Zurich 
      Dept. d'Informatique, EPFL, Lausanne

Research interests : 
      Grid Computing and eScience 
      Software Engineering 
      Design and implementation of parallel programming languages 
      High Performance Computing support tools 
      Design, construction and analysis of algorithms 

Selected publications :
      Parallel Programming 
      Published by Addison-Wesley, 1987
      Software for Parallel Computers 
      Published by Chapman and Hall, 1991 
      An automatic data distribution generator for distributed memory machines
      (with P Crooks)  
      Concurrency - Practice and Experience, Vol. 10, 1996, pp 1-23
      Parallel Languages
      in Handbook of Parallel and Distributed Computing
      Edited by A Y Zomaya.  Published by McGraw Hill 1997, pp 844-865
      Language Constructs for Data Partitioning and Distribution
      (with P. Crooks)
      Scientific Programming, Vol. 4, 1995, pp 59 – 85
      A new computing paradigm
       Engineers Journal, Vol. 56, No. 10, December 2002, pp 18-22.
      Problems with data parallelism
       (with C Phillips)
      Parallel Processing letters, Vol. 11, No. 1, 2001, pp 77-94.
      Infrastructure, requirements and applications for e-Science
      Proceedings IEEE 14 th Symposium on Computer Architecture and High
           Performance Computing, Vitoria, Brazil, 28 - 30 October 2002, 
      Editors A Ferreira, C Amorim, N Costa, pp 1- 10, 2002.
      Quasiparallel programming 
      (with W H Kaubisch and C A R Hoare) 
      Software - Practice and Experience, 6, 1976, 341-356
      A language for array and vector processors 
      ACM TOPLAS, 1, 1979, 177-196
      The programming language Actus 
      (with D Crookes and P M Milligan) 
      Software - Practice and Experience, 13, 1983, 305-322
      A compiler for an array and vector processing language 
      (with D Crookes, P Milligan and M Purdy) 
      IEEE Trans. on Software Engineering, 11, 1985,471-478
      An improved parallel thinning algorithm 
      (with C Holt, A Stewart, M Clint) 
      CACM, 30, 1987, 156-160
      A supercomputer development system 
      (with A Aliabadi) 
      Software - Practice and Experience, 17, 1987, 663-683
      An experiment in concurrent software evaluation 
      (with A. Ramasubbu) 
      Concurrency - Practice and Experience, 4, 1992, 533-555
      Automatic data distribution 
      (with P. Crooks) 
      in High Performance Computing and Networking, 1994, 463-468
      Edited by W. Gentzsch and U. Harms, LNCS 797. Published by Springer-Verlag
      Supercomputer languages 
      (with A Aliabadi) 
      ACM Computing Surveys, 18, 1986, 5-22
      Parallel language developments in European overview 
      Concurrency - Practice and Experience, 4, 1992, 589-617.


Academic Activities :
    Director, Belfast Regional e-Science Centre
    Member, e-Science Steering Committee
    Member, e-Science Technical Advisory Group
    Chairman, Inter Research Council High Performance Computing Strategy Committee
    Chairman, UK US N+N Workshop on Grid Computing
    Chairman, e-Science All Hands Meeting Programme Committee
    Member, e-Science Review Panel, Pilot Projects
    Joint Organiser, UK China N+N Workshop Bioinformatics and the Grid
    Member, OST Informatics Committee, Grid Computing
    Chairman, Technology Watch Panel in High End Computing, 1997->
    Member, UK Research Councils Delegation to Japan, 1997
    Leader, UK High End Computing Delegations to US, 1998 and 2000
    EPSRC College of Computing, 1995->
    Member, Research Councils, High Performance Computing Strategy Committee 1997-
    Member, UK Government Information Technology Advisory Board
     Member, UK Computing Research Committee, 2000->
    Member, Computer Science Research Assessment Panel 
    Assessor, Higher Education Funding Council Teaching Quality Assessment Exercise
    Executive Committee, Conference of Professors of Computer Science
    Founder Member, Euro-Par Steering Committee, 1994-95
    Chairman, Euro-Par Steering Committee, 1995-2000
    Honorary Member, Euro-Par Steering Committee, 2000->
    Editor-in-Chief, Scientific Programming. Published by IOS, Amsterdam
    Editorial Board
        International Journal of High Speed Computing. Published by World Scientific.
        Concurrency – Practice and Experience. Published by John Wiley
        Computer Journal. British Computer Society
    Member, EU Information Society Technology Monitoring Panel
    Rapporteur, EU FP5 Integrated Portfolio Analysis Panel
    Rapporteur, European Union, Grid Computing
    Member, European eGrid Committee 
    Member European Commission Supercomputer Initiative Working Group
    Industrial Working Group of the EC : Parallel Architectures. 
    Referee Esprit Basic Research Action Programme. 
    Technical Evaluator, Esprit and FP4,5 Projects
    Director, Kainos Software Limited
    Director, Northern Ireland Institute of Software Engineering
    Director, Software Industry Federation
    British Computer Society IT Professional of the Year (NI), 1993.