Education
| 2008 - Present | Ph.D. in Computer Science | University of Nottingham |
| 2005 - 2008 | BSc in Computer Science | University of Leicester |
| 2001 - 2003 | BTEC National Diploma | Leicester College |
Employment
| 2008 - Present |
University of Nottingham |
PhD Researcher and Demonstrator |
| Whilst I have been at Nottingham I have helped with the marking of exam scripts, assisted students during laboratory help sessions and given a tutorial lecture. Further detail regarding my time spent at Nottingham are given under the heading Research Experiance. |
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| 2005 - Present |
Self employed |
Freelance Web Developer |
| Over recent years I have developed websites for small businesses, as well as working as a team member for larger development firms. As a website developer I have worked with a number of different languages, such as, PHP, Pearl, Java, Javascript, Python, XHTML, CSS, XML and SQL. |
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| 2003 - 2005 |
Michael Grundy Jewellers |
Apprentice |
Research Interests
My research interests include delay tolerant, self-organising, distributed and mobile systems, social network analysis and network theory.
Computing Skills
I am familiar with a variety of programming and scripting languages, in particular C++, C#, Python, Java, R, and also the document markup language LaTeX. I am comfortable with a range of operating systems, including: Microsoft Windows, Apple Mac OS X and Linux (Ubuntu and Debian).
Research Experiance
Ph.D. Computer Science
| 2008 - Present | University of Nottingham |
| Funding: | EPSRC |
| Supervisor: | Dr. Milena Radenkovic |
Research Synopsis
During my time at Nottingham I have been concerned with the challenging area of Delay Tolerant Networking, specifically focusing on Routing and Congestion Control in sparse and heterogeneous mobile networks with no existing infrastructure.
Additional Achievements
During the course of my Ph.D. I have attended a number of training courses including Planning Research Projects, Statistical Analysis and Data Sampling, Statistical Analysis Using R, Introduction to Teaching, Marking and Assessing and Demonstrating in Computer Science Practicals.
Since completing my teacher training I have marked exam papers, demonstrated in labs and given a tutorial lecture. In addition to this I have been a paid supervisor of a Masters student, overseen by my supervisor. The Masters student's dissertation focused on self organised security in mobile ad hoc networks, culminating in an award for best Masters project. I enjoy working with the students and continue to find the experience extremely rewarding.
I have published work at a number of premium conferences and presented my work both at conferences and university group seminars, which has helped me to develop the ability to communicate in a clear manner.
BSc Computer Science
| 2005 - 2008 | University of Leicester |
| Tutor: | Professor Reiko Heckel |
| Supervisor: | Professor Thomas Erlebach |
Dissertation Synopsis
My BSc Dissertation was a continuation of the Nuffield Foundation funded research work I undertook during the summer of 2007. I developed an algorithm to solve the wireless ad-hoc network routing backbone problem. This centred around the observation that by weighting edges in the network graph as a sum of the cost of the nodes which the edges connected, you could compute a good minimum cost coverage set approximation by means of a distributed minimum spanning tree algorithm. My implementation utilised threaded programming techniques, illustrated the solution as a graph in a GUI and produced a trace file for statistical analysis.
Taught Modules
Functional Programming, Logic Programming, Object Orientated Programming, Software Engineering, Internet Programming, Theory of Computation, Discrete Mathematics, System Modelling and Design, Compression Methods, Multimedia, Cryptograph and System Security.
Computer Science Research Internship
| Summer 2007 | University of Leicester |
| Funding: | Nuffield Science Bursary |
| Supervisor: | Professor Thomas Erlebach |
Project Synopsis
During the 2 month bursary experience I investigated algorithms for routing backbone construction in wireless ad-hoc networks. After familiarising myself with the relevant literature I implemented two variants of the Wang-Wang-Li (WWL) algorithm and a centralised global greedy approach. I also implemented a graphical user interface for visualising the networks and the computed routing structures.
Publications
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Milena Radenkovic and Andrew Grundy, Framework for Utility Driven Congestion Control in Delay Tolerant Opportunistic Networks, in: The 7th International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC 2011), Istanbul.
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Milena Radenkovic and Andrew Grundy, Congestion Aware Forwarding in Delay Tolerant and Social Opportunistic Networks, in: The Eighth International Conference on Wireless On-Demand Network Systems and Services (WONS 2011), Bardonecchia, Italy, Pages 60-67, 26th January 2011.
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Andrew Grundy and Milena Radenkovic, Promoting Congestion Control in Opportunistic Networks, in: IEEE 6th International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications (WiMob 2010), Niagara Falls, Canada, 11th October 2010.
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Milena Radenkovic and Andrew Grundy, MobiCom 2010 Poster: Congestion Aware Data Dissemination in Social Opportunistic Networks, in: SIGMOBILE Mobile Computing and Communications Review (MC2R) Volume 14, Number 3, Pages 31-33, July 2010.
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Andrew Grundy and Milena Radenkovic, Decongesting Opportunistic Social-based Forwarding, in: Seventh Annual Conference on Wireless On demand Network Systems and Services (WONS 2010), Kranjska Gora, Slovenia, Pages 82-85, 3rd February 2010.
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Andrew Grundy and Milena Radenkovic, Routing in Wireless Networks of Varying Connectivity, in: International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Communications (ICWMC 2009), Cannes, France, Pages 18-23, 24th August 2009.
Interests
I enjoy keeping fit by running, swimming and road cycling, I am a keen motorcyclist and enjoy the arts, especially music, film and photography.
