Dr. Periorellis Panos B.Sc(hons) M.Sc, Ph.D.

 

 

Dept of Computing Science, Newcastle University, Devonshire Building, Claremont Rd.

Tyne & Wear, England, NE1 3RU, Telephone: (+44) 0191 246-4918; (+44) 07739551165

E-mail: panayiotis.periorellis@ncl.ac.uk, http://www.periorellis.com

 

 

 

 

  

              Date of Birth : 13 Feb. 1974

Dual Nationality : British -Greek

Marital Status : Single

 

 


RESEARCH INTERESTS

 

Distributed Computing, GRID Applications, P2P, Middleware, Security, Software Engineering, System Architectures, Requirements Engineering

 

 


SUMMARY

 

Over 10 years of practical experience in distributed computing with more than 40 scientific publications in computing related research. I recently led the security part of a project on virtual organisations, which is being turned into a commercial venture to support the chemical development industry. I have also received external funding (130.000 pounds sterling) in the form of case studentship to support Ph.D. students within the department. I regularly organise workshops in distributed computing related subjects with particular emphasis in dependability and security. I have written scientific reports on current state of the art with regards to certain technologies for several funding bodies within the E.U. such as the EPSRC and the IST.

 


WORK EXPERIENCE

 

Mar/2003-present                 Senior Research Associate on at the dept. of Computer Science, Newcastle University

Responsibilities:                   I am pursuing my research interests in the areas of distributed and parallel computing as well as security and dependability. I experiment and evaluate the potential of new technologies to solve practical industrial problems. At the same time I manage research staff, and supervise M.Sc. and Ph.D. students. I am also responsible for pursuing funding opportunities for the E-Science centre. I recently built a consortium of industrial partners and academics to pursue EPSRC funding to the purpose of extending our work on security for GRID applications. I have also very recently acquired a number of Ph.D. CASE studentships from various industrial bodies.  I work hands on with new technologies in order to understand them and at the same time assess their potential to provide practical solutions to real world problems.

 

Jun/2000-Mar/03                  Research Associate on DSoS (Dependable Systems of Systems) at the dept. of Software Reliability, Newcastle Univ. European IST Project 

                                                (Newcastle Univ., Vienna Univ., LAAS, INRIA, ULM Univ)

Responsibilities:                   Research into systems integration of largely autonomous systems. I investigated possible transactional models, fault tolerance and organisational failures due

                                                to technical problems. As part of the post I built a large distributed Travel Agent system using Java RMI and other supporting technologies such as JSP,

                                                XML, HTML in order to expose a web front end. The aim of the case study was to experiment with various transactional models for the Web. I was involved in

                                                all stages of the life cycle. The overall time scale was just over 2 years and it helped me understand and view Web applications from other perspectives                             

                                                namely dependability and security. The work has been published and I have been invited to give talks on structuring Web applications in

                                                 major computing conferences worldwide.

May/1998-Jun/2000             Software Engineer on Verity European IST project (5 partners from EU Universities) at  Sunderland University

Responsibilities:                  I carried out research in the area of natural language processing, pioneered and implemented a number of linguistic tools based on C. The tools were part of a major

                                               system designed by a European Consortium of 5 partners. The aim of the system was to revolutionise the way library systems respond to user queries by understanding

                                               queries expressed in natural language as well as in several (E.U.) languages. I developed all the linguistic components in C as well as the Web

                                               front end using ASP and several databases namely dictionaries and thesauri.

 

 


 

EDUCATION & QUALIFICATIONS

 

Oct/1996 - June/2000           Centre for Software Reliability (CSR) at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne.

                                                Ph.D Computing Science

Thesis Title “Modelling Enterprise Information Systems” supervised by Prof. John Dobson                             

The Ph.D. was funded with a departmental EPSRC scholarship

 


TECHNICAL SKILLS

·       Modelling Methods

Strong analytical skills after years of experience with large E.U. and ERSRC projects. I have worked and applied research solutions in a variety of domains

·       Strong Programming Skills

I have developed software tools, Internet and Windows Applications in various languages and under different architectures. Languages that I regularly use are Java and java related technologies.

·       Software Architectures

I am experienced with Globus, OGSA and OMII, architectures. In addition I work regularly with Web Service Technologies, Java RMI, Enterprise Java Beans and CORBA. I have developed software components for all these architectures.

 

COMMUNICATION SKILLS

·       Ability to express myself clearly, concisely and unambiguously

Experienced in writing technical reports, dissertations, conference papers and technical documentation. I am currently responsible for writing a number of formal documents (deliverables) for reporting the project’s progress

·       Ability to speak, listen, question and negotiate

I have delivered over 40 talks in conferences and workshops

·       Organisational Skills

I have on several occasions prepared workshops. I recently prepared the very successful security workshop at the AHM2005 conference.

 

MANAGEMENT SKILLS

·       Managing Stuff

I am responsible for managing several research associates within the department.

·       Teamwork

I have years of experience working in groups composed of people from different disciplines.

 



 

CONFERENCE AND JOURNAL REVIEW COMMITEES

 

All Hands Meeting 2005 and 2006 (AHM06),  Program Committee and Primary Reviewer for Security, P2P and architecture related papers

Middle Eastern Simulation Conference (MESM2006)  Program Committee

Grid computing, high-performance and Distributed Applications (GADA'06). Program Committee Member

Security and Privacy in Mobile Health Care (PMHCS2006), Program Committee Member

International Conference on Peer-to-Peer Computing (P2P04,05,06) Review Committee

Global Grid Forum, Regular Contributor

IEE Software Engineering Journal, Reviewer

Computer Journal, Reviewer

Software Experience and Practice, Reviewer

International Journal of Web Services, Reviewer

 

 


PUBLICATIONS

 

Please refer to separate sheet for a complete list of publications

 



 

REFEREES

 

Prof. Paul Watson                                Prof.  Alexander Romanovsky

Director E-Science Centre,                 CSR, School of Computing

School of Computing                          Science, Newcastle Univ.

Science, Newcastle University          Newcastle NE1 3RU

Newcastle NE1 3RU                             0191 222 8135

0191 246 4926                                      Alexander.Romanovsky@newcastle.ac.uk

paul.watson@ncl.ac.uk