Alasdair Allan

Alasdair Allan

Senior Research Fellow at University of Exeter

Exeter, United Kingdom

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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

  • Senior Research Fellow

    University of Exeter

    (Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)

    February 2007Present (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 2005Present (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

  • Keele University

    PhD , Astrophysics , 19951999

  • University of St. Andrews

    MSci , Astronomy , 19911995


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