Dr. Theo Lynn,  IC4 Principal Investigator

Senior Lecturer, Business School, DCU

Dr. Theo Lynn is a Senior Lecturer at the Dublin City University, Principal Investigator of the Irish Centre for Cloud Computing and Commerce and Director of MarketingLab, a new applied marketing technologies research and outreach centre. He was director of the Leadership, Innovation and Knowledge Research Centre at DCU from 2009 to 2011 and has been Director of Industry Engagement at DCU Business School since 2010. Dr Lynn holds a PhD, MBS (MIS) and BBLS all from University College Dublin. Dr. Lynn has founded a number of ICT companies incl. Enki Information Systems, Educational Multimedia Group and Atomic Assets, the businesses of which have been acquired by Rochford Brady Group, Intuition and Cambridge University Press respectively. He is currently a Partner in the 30/60 Seed Investment Fund and advises a number of domestic and international companies in digital marketing. Dr. Lynn is an EU Expert Evaluator in ICT and has recently advised the European Parliament STOA Panel on cloud computing and social media. Dr. Lynn has led the completion of over 150 funded research projects since 2007.

Dr. Brian Lee, Principal Investigator

Director of the Software Research Institute, AIT

Dr Brian Lee  is the Director of the Software Research Institute and holds a PhD from Trinity College Dublin the application of programmable networking for  network management. He has over 20 years experience in fixed and mobile network management and has extensive experience of systems and software design and development for large telecommunications products. He has managed numerous internal and external projects including Celtic Plus projects and has been task and WP leader on both EU and Celtic projects. He was previously director of research for LM Ericsson Ireland with responsibility for overseeing all research activities including external collaborations and relationship management. His research interests include programmable networking for network management (especially wrt to SDN) and distributed data analytics for infrastructure management.

Professor John Morrison, Principal Investigator

Director of the Centre for Unified Computing, UCC

Prof. John Morrison is the founder and director of the Centre for Unified Computing. He is a co-founder and co-director of the Boole Centre for Research in Informatics and a co-founder and co-director of Grid-Ireland. He is the UCC PI for the Irish Centre for Cloud Computing and Commerce. Prof. Morrison is a Science Foundation of Ireland Investigator award holder and has published widely in the field of Parallel Distributed and Grid Computing. He has been the guest editor on many journals including the Journal of Super Computing and the Journal of Scientific Computing. He is on the Editorial Board of Multi-Agent and Grid Systems: An International Journal, published by ISO Press, and the International Journal of Computational Intelligence: Theory and Practice (IJCITP). He is a member of the ACM and a senior member of the IEEE. Prof Morrison is a member of the I2Lab Advisory Board in the University of Central Florida.

Dr. Claus Pahl, Principal Investigator

Senior Lecturer, School of Computing, DCU

Claus Pahl a Senior Lecturer at the School of Computing at Dublin City University. He is one of the Principal Investigators in the Irish Centre for Cloud Computing and Commerce (IC4) and the Deputy Director of the CloudCORE Research Centre. His main area of research interest is Cloud and Service Systems Engineering. The central objective is the development and application of software architecture technologies for dependable software and information systems for quality-driven cloud and service architectures in particular. He has published more than 250 papers, has served as an expert reviewer for evaluation panels across 10 countries world-wide and has contributed to the organisation of more than 100 conferences and workshops.

Dr. Philip Healy

Research Fellow, UCC

Philip Healy has over a decade’s experience in parallel and distributed software development, in both academic and industrial settings. His recent academic work includes the research and development of a remote monitoring system for physiological signals acquired in a critical care setting. His recent industry experience includes the design and development of large-scale distributed data processing applications using cutting-edge technologies such as Hadoop and HBase. He is currently a Research Fellow at The Irish Centre for Cloud Computing & Commerce.

Dr. Abir Awad

Post-Doctorate Researcher, AIT

Dr. Abir Awad received her PhD degree in Computer Science from Polytech’ Nantes, University of Nantes (Nantes,France). Her PhD was within the framework of the research project “ACSCOM”, “Apport du Chaos dansla Sécurité des systèmes Communicants Optiqueset Mobiles” supported by the ANRT. She developed her doctoral thesis on Cryptography from September 2006 to November 2009. Later, she joined the Operational Cryptology and Virology Laboratory ((C+V)°), ESIEA and Le Mans University in Laval in 2010 and the computer science lab. (LIFO), University of Orleans in Orleans in 2011 as a lecturer-researcher. In 2012, she worked at the computer science dep., Ryerson University, Toronto Canada. She is currently working as a researcher at the Software Research Institute (SRI), Athlone Institute or Technology (AIT) within the Irish Centre of Cloud Computing and Commerce IC4) ( ).

Dr. Sara Kadry 

Post-Doctorate Researcher, AIT

Dr Sara Kardy works at the Software Research Institute (SRI) at Athlone Institute or Technology (AIT) and as part of the Irish Centre of Cloud Computing and Commerce (IC4). Her research focuses on cloud computing security and trusted computing system. Previously, she was a Research Assistant at University of East Anglia, UK. She also worked as an Assistant Lecturer for 4 years at university of East Anglia, UK and 2 years at the American University in Cairo (AUC). Her Ph.D. research was about formalising security aspects in cloud computing environment. She also completed M.Sc. of Computer Science with excellent from The American University in Cairo (AUC). She also received certificate in Teaching and Research Skills from University of East Anglia, UK. In 2009, she was awarded a certificate from Microsoft in real life competition and in 2011, she received a certificate of cloud computing from Cloud University sponsored by Rackspace Hosting. Her research interests are Cloud Security, Trusted Computing System, Software development and Formal Methods.

Dr. Vincent C. Emeakaroha

Post Doctorate Researcher, UCC

Vincent C. Emeakaroha is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Irish Centre for Cloud Computing with affiliation to University College Cork Ireland. Previously, he was a Research Assistant at the Distributed Systems Group, Information Systems Institute, Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien). He received his bachelor degree in Computer Engineering in 2006 and gained double masters in Software Engineering & Internet Computing in 2008, and in Informatics Management in 2009 all from Vienna University of Technology. In 2012, he received his PhD in Computer Science with excellence. He has worked in different research projects over the years including the Foundations of Self-governing ICT Infrastructures (FoSII) project funded by the Vienna Science and Technology Fund (WWTF) and Holistic Energy Efficient Approach for the Management of Hybrid Clouds (HALEY) funded by the Vienna University of Technology Science Award. He participated in the European Commission’s COST Action on Energy Efficient Large Scale Distributed System. In October 2010, he was a visiting researcher at the Technical University of Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain. His research areas of interest include resource management in large-scale distributed systems, service provisioning management, storage usage optimization, autonomic computing, energy efficiency in Clouds, SLA and QoS management.

Dr. Kaniz Fatema

Post Doctorate Researcher, UCC

Kaniz is working at University College Cork as a post-doctoral researcher and focusing on cloud monitoring techniques, gathering and combining metrics from various layers of cloud and other cloud technology related topics such as locating data in the cloud. Her Ph.D. research was conducted at University of Kent, UK, under EC FP7 project (Trusted Architecture for Securely Shared Services) and focused on designing an authorization system to provide privacy of personal data by having access control policies and conflict resolution policies from multiple authorities dynamically, obtaining access control rules from the legislation (EU Data Protection Directive) to provide automated decision for any request to access a personal data item. She has multidisciplinary research experiences (in Information Security and Privacy, Privacy Law, Cloud computing, Speech Processing, Machine Learning, Digital Signal Processing). She achieved distinction in M.Sc. (Eng) in Data Communications from the University of Sheffield, UK. She completed M.Sc. and B.Sc. (honors) in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh. She worked as a Lecturer at Stamford University Bangladesh for 2 years and as an Assistant Lecturer at the University of Kent, UK for 3.5 years.

Dr. Huanhuan Xiong

Post-Doctorate Researcher, DCUCS

Dr. Huanhuan Xiong is a post-doctoral researcher at the Irish Centre for Cloud Computing & Commerce (IC4). Her current research interests include different aspects of cloud migration (e.g., business processes, business impact analysis, and software design pattern), cloud interoperability and scalability (e.g., architecture, methods and technologies). She holds B.S. in Economics from Wuhan University of Technology (Wuhan, China), and M.S. in Software Engineering and PhD degree in Geographic Information System (GIS) from Wuhan University (Wuhan, China).

Dr. Lisa van der Werff

Post-Doctorate Researcher, DCUBS 

Lisa van der Werff is an organisational psychologist and postdoctoral researcher with the Irish Centre for Cloud Computing and Commerce. Her research interests are in the area of trust decision making, maintenance and repair.  Lisa also has an interest in quantitative research methodologies including structural equation modelling, latent growth modelling, Bayesian analysis and big data analysis. Her research with IC4 focuses on how cloud service providers can communicate trustworthiness to consumers and on trust repair processes following data breach. Lisa holds a PhD and MSc in Work and Organisational Psychology from DCU Business School as well as a BA in Psychology from NUI Maynooth.  Her PhD was completed with support from the Daniel O’Hare Scholarship Fund as part of the National Development Plan. During her PhD, Lisa spent a semester as a visiting scholar in the University of Georgia, USA. Lisa also has over 6 years of industry experience working as a learning and development specialist and human resources professional for KPMG and McCann FitzGerald Solicitors.

Dr. Steven Kilroy

Post-Doctorate Researcher, DCUBS

Steven Kilroy is a postdoctoral researcher with the Irish Centre for Cloud Computing and Commerce. His research interests are in the area of HRM and organisational psychology. Specifically, his research focuses on investigating the impact of HR practices on employee well-being and performance. His research with IC4 focuses on big data analysis and how it can be used to understand human behaviour within organisations. It also focuses on trust and data breaches in the cloud context. Steven holds a PhD and MBS in Human Resource Management from DCU Business School as well as a BA in Human Resource Management from the National College of Ireland. Steven has work experience as a lecturer in research methods and HRM in DCU and Griffith College respectively, a visiting research scholar at HEC Montreal and a research assistant at DCU.

Dr. Lei Xu

Post-Doctorate Researcher, DCUCS

Dr. Lei Xu is a researcher at Dublin City University, Irish Centre for Cloud Computing and Commerce (IC4). Prior to this, he was a post-doctoral research fellow with School of Computing, Dublin City University and the Cloud and Grid Computing Group, Department of Computing Science, Umea University, Sweden. His research interests include: monitoring, billing and pricing; resource allocation and workload balance;policy-based workflow management; service quality prediction and big data analysis. He holds a Ph.D. from Telecommunications Software & Systems Group, Waterford Institute of Technology, Ireland, and a M.Sc. from University of Durham, United Kingdom.

Frank Fowley

Research Assistant, DCUCS

Frank Fowley joined IC4 as a researcher, after completing a Masters in Security and Forensics Computing at DCU. Having previously spent over 20 years in the Telecoms and IT industries, he brings a business-oriented viewpoint to the research activities. His main research focus to date has been on cloud interoperability, specifically related to open cloud brokerage systems. His Masters work is related to security protocols for storage clouds and proof-of-ownership methods.

Graham Hunt

Research Assistant, DCUBS

Graham Hunt is a Researcher working with the Business Research team at IC4. He holds a Masters in Management Strategy from Dublin City University and a Bachelors degree in Quantity Surveying. He is currently holds an Adjunct Lecturers position at National University of Ireland Maynooth teaching business analytics and has also taught cloud strategy at Dublin City University. His recent industry experience includes project management and financial management for the earthquake recover project in Christchurch, New Zealand. Graham has also worked consulting with numerous SMEs and start-ups on developing their business plans and strategic planning. His main research focus to date has been developing a competitive advantage from cloud computing services, SLA management and increasing consumer trust in cloud computing.

Pooyan Jamshidi

Research Assistant, DCUCS

Pooyan Jamshidi is a PhD candidate in the School of Computing, Faculty of Engineering and Computing at Dublin City University (DCU) and a Research Assistant at the Irish Centre for Cloud Computing & Commerce (IC4). He received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in computer science and systems engineering from Amirkabir University of Technology (Tehran Polytechnic), in 2003 and 2006. Pooyan’s general research interests are in the field of software engineering and his focus lies predominantly in the areas of cloud computing, software architecture, model-based self-adaptation and self-adaptive software.

David Kenny

Research Assistant, DCUBS

David Kenny is a Research Assistant at the DCU Business School. David is a business requirements analyst and holds a MSc. in E-Commerce and a BA (Hons) in International Business and Japanese from Dublin City University.

Colette Real

Research Assistant, DCUBS

Colette is currently a research assistant in IC4, looking at the behavioural and psychological aspects of trust in relation to the cloud. Colette holds a BA in Psychology from Dublin Business School and an MSc in Work and Organisational Psychology from DCU.  Colette is also an experienced Change Management Professional with over twenty years experience in the financial services sector.