Dr I.J. Taylor

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Computer Science & Informatics,
Cardiff University,
Queen's Buildings,
5 The Parade, Roath,
Cardiff CF24 3AA, UK

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Phone: +44 (0) 29 20870109
Fax: +44 (0) 29 20874598

Extension Number: 70109
Room Number: WX/3.06

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Research Interests

Ian Taylor has a degree in Computing Science and a Ph.D. researching and implementing artificial-neural-network types for the determination of musical pitch. After his Ph.D, he joined the gravitational-wave group at Cardiff to investigate simulating neural networks using parallel software implementations. Ian also supported initial C++ implementation of the Triana workflow system and later redesigned and rewrote it in Java. During this time, Ian also designed, procured and engineered the initial implementation of the data acquisition system for the GEO 600 gravitational wave detector. Ian has been the co-ordinator of Triana activities at Cardiff, applying distributed techniques and workflow in Grid, SOA and P2P computing. Ian also has a strong research focus on distributed data techniques (EDGeS) and distributed solutions within health informatics (Sintero). In the USA, Ian concurrently works as a software and research consultant through his USA-based company that contracts to the Naval Research Lab in Washington DC.

Ian has written a professional book with Springer, which succeeded to its second edition 2008 (From P2P and Grids to Services on the Web), has been guest editor for the Journal of Grid Computing on workflow and is co-chair for the OGF Workflow Management Research Group (WFM-RG). He was the lead editor (with Ewa Deelman, Dennis Gannon and E Matthew Shields as co-editor) of Workflows for eScience book published by Springer, which gave a state-of-the-art of most major workflow projects in the world. He has published over 60 scientific papers. Ian has vast experienced in both managing a number academic projects (UK and EU) and industrial projects through his US company over the past 10 years. Ian is also is a member of management oversight committee for DPAC project (£10M, STFC) providing data analysis for the ESA GAIA mission to create the most precise 3D one billion star chart of our Galaxy.