Professor Paddy Nixon (Vice-Chancellor)
| Paddy Nixon | |
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| 5th Vice-Chancellor and President of Ulster University | |
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Assumed office 1 July 2015 |
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| Preceded by | Professor Sir Richard Barnett |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Liverpool, England |
| Nationality | British |
| Children | 5 |
| Residence | Coleraine |
| Alma mater |
University of Liverpool University of Sheffield |
| Profession |
Academic Distributed Computing Researcher |
Paddy Nixon is Vice-Chancellor and President of Ulster University and a computer scientist. He took office on 1 July 2015, moving from University of Tasmania where he was Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research).
Nixon is originally from Liverpool in the United Kingdom. He attended St. Anselm's College, obtained a B.Sc (Hons) in Computer Science from University of Liverpool and a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from University of Sheffield. He is married to Vanessa and has 5 children.
He has held academic positions at Trinity College Dublin, University of Strathclyde, and University College Dublin. While at Trinity College he was Warden of Trinity Hall, Dublin.
Nixon’s research specialism is large-scale distributed systems with a particular focus on software infrastructure including pervasive systems, sensor systems, middleware, web services, trust and privacy, and mobile systems. Nixon has published over 220 publications and he has edited 9 books.
Nixon was Science Foundation Ireland Research Professor in Distributed Systems at University College Dublin (2005-2010). He has extensive industry and commercial experience, collaborating with global high tech firms such as Microsoft, Oracle, IBM and Intel. He was an IBM faculty fellow at the IBM Dublin Institute for Advanced Study and from 2007–2010 he was Academic Director of Intel’s Independent Living and Digital Health. He was also instrumental in the establishment UCD’s Complex and Adaptive Systems Laboratory (CASL) focusing on the inter-disciplinary research at the intersection of mathematics, computation and scientific discovery.
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