I am a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor in U.S.A. and most other countries' terminology) in the School of Computer Science of the University of Manchester, where I teach and lead a Research Laboratory with research interests in the wide area of High-Performance, Parallel and Distributed Computing.

I have carried out research, focusing primarily on issues related to parallelism and resource sharing, on a wide variety of topics (e.g., parallelizing compilers, performance modeling and prediction, multithreading, workload and task scheduling, distributed query processing, grid information systems, service level agreements, adaptive and autonomic computing) and with a large number of collaborators (see the full list of publications from the top left). Currently, I am particularly interested in problems related to adaptive and autonomic computing, SLA-based and cloud computing, and scheduling for such environments.

In the by now distant past, I was a member of the dHPF Compiler Group in the Department of Computer Science, Rice University, where I was involved with the DARPA-funded project POEMS. I was also a Visiting Assistant Professor with the Department of Computer Science, University of Cyprus, whereas I have also had a brief spell of experience with the software industry, looong time ago: COBOL, Pascal and the like :-)

Up to 18 PhD studentships for home (=UK or EU) students are available from the School
Email me if you are interested to do a PhD under my supervision!
(Click here or here for indicative PhD projects I suggested, but I am happy to discuss more ideas in the general area of High-Performance, Parallel, Distributed or Grid computing)