Senior Research Fellow at University of Exeter
Exeter, United Kingdom
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- Senior Research Fellow at University of Exeter
- Owner at Babilim Light Industries
- Education
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- Keele University
- University of St. Andrews
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Alasdair Allan’s Summary
Experienced researcher, programmer and project architect. At the forefront of applying intelligent agent architectures and techniques to astrophysics research for telescope control and scheduling, and for data mining in the emerging virtual observatory. Currently leading the work at Exeter into building a peer-to-peer distributed network of telescopes which, acting autonomously, can reactively schedule observations of time-critical transient events in real-time.
Alasdair Allan’s Experience
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Senior Research Fellow
University of Exeter
(Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)
February 2007 — Present (2 years 6 months)
• Architecture, implementation and deployment of new web services in Perl
• Leading a team building a web service based telescope network
• Day-to-day operational support for the telescope network software
• Building software for embedded and mobile devices such as the iPhone
• Research into agent architectures for distributed sensor networks
• Building software and hardware for a test-bed distributed sensor network
• Tutor for the level 2 course “Scientific Programming in C” -
Owner
Babilim Light Industries
(Computer Software industry)
January 2005 — Present (4 years 7 months)
• Running a small Perl, Web 2.0 and Open Hardware consulting company
• Building software for embedded and mobile devices such as the iPhone
• Implement and deploy AJAX web applications backed by SQL databases
• Refactoring fragile legacy Perl systems
Alasdair Allan’s Education
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Keele University
PhD , Astrophysics , 1995 — 1999
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University of St. Andrews
MSci , Astronomy , 1991 — 1995
