Welcome to my website. I am a Senior Lecturer in the School of Computer Science at the University of St Andrews in Scotland. Please browse the links to find out more about me and what I do, or take a look at my papers. Or here are some ways to contact me.

Note: I am on sabbatical until September 2017 and checking e-mail less frequently than usual. Our University’s Office365 e-mail server seems to be unable to send autoreplies in any kind of sensible manner, so I apologise for not setting up an autoresponder. For admissions queries, try admissions-cs@st-andrews.ac.uk, or for CRAWDAD, crawdad@crawdad.org. I am not teaching this year so any teaching queries should go to the relevant module coordinator.

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Frequently asked questions

• How can I get hold of your papers?
  I keep most of them here. Contact me if you are looking for anything in particular.
• Why are you ignoring my e-mails?
  They have probably been chewed up by our Exchange server. Try sending from a different address, or try contacting me by a different method. If you have sent me a 10MB Word file written in Greek or Sanskrit (I am not joking), then I have ignored you on purpose. Jan 2013: due to travel and illness I have given up and declared e-mail bankruptcy. I have deleted everything in my INBOX as there was no way I would be able to catch up. So if you have sent me anything important recently, please resend.
• Will you give me <sensitive datum x> from the experimental data described in your paper?
  No. If it’s not on CRAWDAD, then we aren’t allowed to release it.
• Can I have a blurb about you for a seminar/grant/GeoCities site about computer scientists whose names start with ‘T’?
  Here’s a bio and a CV.
• Will you give me a reference?
  Perhaps, but only if you follow these instructions.
• I am an undergraduate student who wants to do a summer internship with you. Will you fund me?
  No. I occasionally offer funded summer internships but they will be advertised. I ignore unsolicited requests as I receive far too many.
• I want to study Computer Science at St Andrews. Can you give me a place?
  We don’t give out places by e-mail; you have to apply through UCAS. But I am glad that you are considering coming here - please look at our Admissions web pages to find out more about applications and how to visit us.
• I would like to do a PhD with you. Can you give me a place?
  Thank you for your interest. Please read this and then get in touch.
• I would like to do a postdoc with you. Can you give me a position?
  If I do have any positions available, they will be advertised on the University’s vacancies web pages so please check there.
• Can you fix my computer?
  Trust me, you don’t want me anywhere near your computer. My special powers mean that I can break it without even touching it.

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News, notices and so forth

• We are running a summer school on reproducibility and methodology in CS research…

• Our special issue of the International Journal of Human-Computer Studies on Privacy Methodologies in HCI is out!

• Congratulations to my student Iain for having one of the hottest papers in the Computer Communications journa…
• I spent yesterday at the Open Data Institute in London at a very interesting workshop about “Human-Data Interaction”…
• We have just started a new SICSA Cybersecurity group for those interested in (cyber)security/privacy/trust/etc…; sign up to the mailing list to keep informed.

• I am always looking for good PhD students – see my research page for more. Funding is sometimes available, but this will typically be advertised through the School. Note that I do not have funding for overseas undergraduate internships – the numerous requests that I receive for these are ignored.
• I am our School’s Undergraduate Admissions Officer. If you are thinking about studying Computer Science at St Andrews, please look at the relevant School web pages and consider visiting us.
• We hold regular SCONE (SCOttish Networking Event) meetings for anyone who is interested in networking and systems. Our next meeting is here in St Andrews on 26 April. Sign up to the mailing list to find out more.

• I am currently involved with the following events. Please consider submitting something or attending if you can.
  • Editorial board member for Networking and Communications, ACM Books
  • Programme Committee, AAAI-18, New Orleans, LA, USA
  • Programme Committee, CHANTS 2017, Snowbird, UT, USA
  • Programme Committee, Reproducibility’17, Los Angeles, CA, USA