Advisors: Ian Foster, Kyle Chard
I recently finished my PhD from the University of Canterbury in computer science while working at the University of Auckland; LivePublication: A Framework for Enabling Rich and Evolving Publication Containers with Maturing EScience Technologies.
I hail from down under, down under (New Zealand) and have brought my wife (and cat) along with me to Chicago. Im a fan of HPC, and like to build and tinker with computers. Looking forward to the summer…
My research interests congregate around science automation. How can automation techniques improve the velocity and quality of science processes? There are lots of interesting facets to this topic depending on which sub-process interests you. My dissertation focused on the communication of results, and creating infrastructure that automated the publication (and narrative reconfiguration of) published research.
Currently I am interested in expanding the scope of this to include more of the research lifecycle. Can we create useful systems that automate the design of methods in response to a hypothesis? Given that design, can we interface that workflow with real infrastructure that can execute those methods (and not necessarily constrained to the digital, i.e. robotics).
