Paul Marrow

Current

• Principal Multidisciplinary Researcher at BT
• Honorary Senior Research Fellow, School of Computer Science at University of Birmingham

Past

• Senior Research Scientist, Self-Organising Systems and Multimedia at BT
• Senior Professional, Intelligent Systems Laboratory at BT
• Professional, Future Technologies at BT

• Research Assistant at Cambridge University
• Royal Society/Leverhulme Trust Research Fellow at Leiden University

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Education

• University of York
• University of Oxford

Recommended

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Connections

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

Websites

• My Company

Paul Marrow’s Summary

Experience in mathematical biology, evolutionary biology, evolutionary game theory applied to biology and to business, life history theory, evolutionary computation, nature-inspired computation, multi-agent systems, collaborative research project management at national and European level, recommender systems, healthcare and multimedia applications of ICT, field trials of research in real-life contexts.
Goals: to apply my diverse experience towards delivering results from highly effective project management and collaboration.

Paul Marrow’s Specialties:

search and recommendation, project management, collaborative research organisation and management, nature-inspired computing research, experimental design and analysis of field trials.

Paul Marrow’s Experience

• Principal Multidisciplinary Researcher

  BT

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; BT; Telecommunications industry)

  2008 — Present (1 year)

  Managing team working on enhancing multimedia user experience through recommendation, and researching technologies associated with this, as well as continuing research into the application of self-organising and distributed systems.

• Honorary Senior Research Fellow, School of Computer Science

  University of Birmingham

  (Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)

  January 2008 — Present (1 year 7 months)

  I provide industrial supervision to research projects, collaborate with academic researchers on publications, and provide industrial input to academic-industrial advisory committees.

• Senior Research Scientist, Self-Organising Systems and Multimedia

  BT

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; BT; Telecommunications industry)

  April 2004 — April 2008 (4 years 1 month)

  Carried out applied research in a range of technology areas united by the themes of decentralised, distributed systems, and frequently the need to generate some degree of self-organisation. Application domains varied from healthcare through to multimedia content delivery. Involved collaboration with researchers in other companies and universities in the UK and elsewhere in Europe.

• Senior Professional, Intelligent Systems Laboratory

  BT

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; BT; Information Technology and Services industry)

  1999 — 2004 (5 years)

  Project manager and researcher in nature-inspired computing,in particular coordinating EU Framework 5 project DIET (2000-3) on multi-agent systems. Also developing collaborations with UK universities in evolutionary computation research and other areas of nature-inspired computing.

• Professional, Future Technologies

  BT

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  1997 — 1999 (2 years)

  I brought a biological perspective into ICT research on nature-inspired computing, focusing on evolutionary computation and evolutionary game theory applied to computing and telecommunications problems, before becoming involved in the development of an European collaboration in the area of multi-agent systems.

• Research Assistant

  Cambridge University

  (Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)

  1993 — 1996 (3 years)

  Researcher in world-renowned Large Animal Research Group in Zoology Department at Cambridge University, applying statistical and computational modeling to the analysis of life history evolution in mammal populations.

• Royal Society/Leverhulme Trust Research Fellow

  Leiden University

  (Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)

  1992 — 1993 (1 year)

  Researcher on the dynamics of evolving natural populations at the Institute of Theoretical Biology.

Paul Marrow’s Education

• University of York

  DPhil , Mathematical Biology , 1989 — 1992

  Activities and Societies:

  Doctoral research on the evolution and dynamics of interacting populations. In collaboration with the Department of Probability and Statistics, University of Sheffield.

• University of Oxford

  BA , Natural Sciences: Pure and Applied Biology , 1986 — 1989

  Activities and Societies:

  1st class degree. Ranked 1st in year. College prize for degree.

Additional Information

Paul Marrow’s Websites:

• My Company

Paul Marrow’s Interests:

collaborative research projects, industry-academic liason, project management, nature-inspired computing, self-organising systems, evolutionary ecology, data analysis, hiking, travel

Paul Marrow’s Groups:

Association for Computing Machinery, British Computer Society, British Ecological Society, Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour, EU projects, EPSRC Market-Based Control of Agent Systems project,

•    The Association for Project Management
•    University of York Alumni Association
•    iptv
•    Project Managers Group
•    ACM Members
•    Evolutionary algorithms
•    User Experience
•    BT Network
•    Oxford University Alumni
•    BT Graduate Alumni
•    SASO Conference
•    Association for Trading Agent Research
•    Quant Masters - Quantitative Professionals Worldwide

Paul Marrow’s Honors:

Chartered Information Technology Professional (CITP) 2006
Member of British Computer Society (MBCS) 2004
BT Gordon Radley Technical Premium Award 2001/2, 2002
BT Exact Brightstar and Enterprise Venturing Award for Technology Exploitation 2002
BT award for auction modeling 2000
Royal Society/Leverhulme Trust European research fellowship 1992
St Anne's College: award for First class degree 1989

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