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Julie Ann McCann CEng FBCS is a Northern Irish computer scientist who is a professor at Imperial College London. She is the leader of the Adaptive Emergent Systems Engineering.[1] She is a Fellow of the British Computer Society and was awarded the Suffrage Science award in 2018.

Early life and education

As a teenager, McCann became interested in electronic music,[2] particularly listening to Kraftwerk and Karlheinz Stockhausen. She lived close to the Armagh Planetarium in Armagh.[2] She joined Ulster University for her academic studies, working toward a bachelor's and doctorate in computer science.[2][3] She completed her doctorate in 1992.[4][5]

Research and career

McCann develops spatial computing and wireless communications, which combine information from their environments with their digital components. Her group investigate convergence and anarchical spatial computing systems. To better understand this, she uses established understanding from systems beyond computing infrastructure (e.g. economics, biology, physics). She combines decentralised algorithms and protocols using low-powered sensing devices. These devices are very small and communicate with one another via radio signals.[2][6]

McCann joined Imperial College London in 2002 from City, University of London. She works on Adaptive Emergent Systems Engineering.[7] Her interests lie in harnessing the various interactions between the cyber and physical to improve performance, resilience and to make secure. She oversees the Alan Turing Institute Resilient and Robust Infrastructure challenge.[7]

McCann leads the National Research Foundation Singapore Eco Cities initiative. McCann also serves as deputy director of the PETRAS National Centre of Excellence.[8]

Awards and honours

Selected publications

Her publications[11][1] include:

References

  1. ^ a b c Julie McCann publications indexed by Google Scholar Edit this at Wikidata
  2. ^ a b c d "Prof Julie McCann | Faculty of Engineering | Imperial College London". imperial.ac.uk. Retrieved 2022-05-19.
  3. ^ "What are smart cities and how will they work? | BCS". bcs.org. Retrieved 2022-05-19.
  4. ^ Julie McCann at the Mathematics Genealogy Project Edit this at Wikidata
  5. ^ Patel, Nandish V. (2003-01-01). Adaptive Evolutionary Information Systems. Idea Group Inc (IGI). ISBN 978-1-59140-034-9.
  6. ^ Andrei, Oana. "The S4 Programme Grant". dcs.gla.ac.uk. Retrieved 2022-05-19.
  7. ^ a b "Julie McCann". turing.ac.uk. Alan Turing Institute. Retrieved 2022-05-19.
  8. ^ "Petras - – Prof. Julie McCann". petras-iot.org. Retrieved 2022-05-19.
  9. ^ "Petras - – Professor Julie McCann receives Suffrage Science Award". Retrieved 2022-05-19.
  10. ^ "Professor Julie McCann to give Turing Talk 2022 | BCS". bcs.org. Retrieved 2022-05-19.
  11. ^ Julie McCann at DBLP Bibliography Server Edit this at Wikidata
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