Simon Dob­son is Pro­fessor of Com­puter Sci­ence in the School of Com­puter Sci­ence at the Uni­ver­sity of St Andrews. His research interests centre around the design, ana­lysis and con­struc­tion of highly adapt­ive, highly sen­sor­ised com­put­ing sys­tems. He is a recog­nised expert in the fields of auto­nomic and per­vas­ive com­put­ing, a repu­ta­tion sup­por­ted by over 100 inter­na­tion­ally peer-reviewed pub­lic­a­tions and a lead­er­ship role in research grants worth over EUR30M. He has served, amongst other activ­it­ies, as pro­gramme and gen­eral chair for the IEEE Inter­na­tional Con­fer­ence on Auto­nomic Com­put­ing; as an invited editor for Com­puter Net­works; on the edit­or­ial board of the Journal of Net­work and Sys­tems Man­age­ment; and on the pro­gramme com­mit­tees of a wide range of inter­na­tional work­shops and con­fer­ences. He was a dir­ector and vice-president of the European Research Con­sor­tium for Inform­at­ics and Math­em­at­ics from 2006 — 2009, and has served on a num­ber of national and EU com­mit­tees and stra­tegic ini­ti­at­ives. He was also the founder and CEO of a research-led start-up com­pany. He holds a BSc and DPhil in com­puter sci­ence, is a Chartered Fel­low of the Brit­ish Com­puter Soci­ety, a Chartered Engin­eer and Senior Mem­ber of the IEEE and ACM.

(See also my 2-page and com­plete CVs.)