UCL’s Adastral Park
Postgraduate Campus
Ingemar J. Cox
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Background
General objective
Management & Governance
Present staffing and headcount
Future growth objectives
Business model, present & projected
income streams
Background
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Established by BT and UCL in 2001
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Funding of £3M
First Director John O’Reilley
Background
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John Midwinter Director 2002-2003
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business plan
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Secured additional funding
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Creates a self-sustaining postgraduate teaching
and research campus
£2M from East of England Development Agency
(EEDA)
Background
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Ingemar Cox
Hired Nov. 2002
- Director Nov. 2003-present
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General objective
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General objective
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To establish a postgraduate research and
teaching facility at Adastral Park
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Initial focus is in computer science and electronic
engineering
General Objectives
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Acknowledged world leader in research
relevant to the Information and
Communications industry
Reinforce the academic research strengths
of East Anglia
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strengthening the eastern end of the
Ipswich/Cambridge corridor
Established M.Sc. teaching programmes
Self-supporting after start-up phase
General Objectives
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Close collaboration with UCL’s main campus
Close industrial collaboration
Catalyst for industry-industry collaboration by
providing a neutral participatory environment
for research
Management & Governance
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Management & Governance
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Director
Technical Advisory Board
Management Committee
Advisory Board
Provost
Malcolm Grant
Sir Derek Roberts (Chair)
Terry Doyle (Philips)
Philip Hargrave (Nortel)
Derek McCauley (Intel)
Richard Nichol (BT)
Martin Sadler (HP)
Daphne Silvester (EEDA)
Steve Wright (BT)
Ingemar Cox
Dave Delpy
Anthony Finkelstein
Hugh Griffiths
Yvo Desmedt
Fred Stentiford
Vice-Provost
Dave Delpy
Director
Ingemar Cox
Head of CS
Anthony Finkelstein
Manager
Brian Riley
Systems
Systems
Administrator
Admin
Neil
Marjoram
Neil
Marjoram
Secretary
Assistant
S. Bloomfield
R. Hutchinson
Management Committee
Ingemar Cox
Brian Riley
Dave Delpy
Anthony Finkelstein
Hugh Griffiths
Peter Kirstein
Neil Marjoram
Yvo Desmedt
Chris Pitt
Alwyn Seeds
Fred Stentiford
Head of EE
Hugh Griffiths
3 Professors & 8 Lecturers/Sr. Lecturers
I.J.Cox
Y. Desmedt
F. Stentiford
A.Lomuscio
S. Zhou
11 Res. Assistants + 33 Ph.D. Students
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Staffing and growth
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Present staffing
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Director
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Ingemar J. Cox
Professors
Ingemar Cox
- Yvo Desmedt
- Fred Stentiford
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Senior Lecturer
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Lecturer
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Alessio Lomuscio
Shi Zhou
Present staffing
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Manager
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Business Development Manager
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Neil Marjoram
Assistant system administrator
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Suzanne Bloomfield
System administrator
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Simon Maddison
Secretary
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Brian Riley
Richard Hutchinson
Present staffing
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Research Fellows
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Interns
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3
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Ph.D. students
13 Ph.D. students
- 10 Eng.D. students
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Present staffing
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Visitors
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Visiting Professor
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Visiting Research Assistant
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(Charles University, Czech Republic) -1 year
Universite Catholique de Louvain, Belgium - 6 mo.
Visiting Student
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David Nacache, Gemplus
Chevening Scholarship - 9 months
Interns - University of Rostock, Germany – 6 mo.
Future growth objectives
HEAD COUNT
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
Academic
(Chairs & Research Fellows)
1
2
5
8
11
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Academic Related
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1
1
1
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1
Technical
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0
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2
2
2
2
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Clerical
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1
1
1
1
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1
Research Staff FTE’s
1
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6
11
14
15
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15
Total Staff FTE’s
2
5
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18
26
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30
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Student FT – PGR fte’s
8
12
15
14
21
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33
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Total Head count (excl
MSc/modular)
10
17
25
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47
57
63
63
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Current recruitment status
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Seeking to fill 3 positions at Sr.
Lecturer/Lecturer level
Advertised in international journals
IEEE Spectrum
- Communications of the ACM
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109 applicants
10 shortlisted
Interviews expected mid March 2005
Business model
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Business model
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Higher Education Funding Council England
HEFCE
Teaching income
Research contract and grant income
Research themes
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Research themes
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Information security
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Information discovery
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Multi-agents, web auctions, relevance feedback
Information modeling
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Content-based image retrieval, text retrieval
Information interaction
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Cryptography, watermarking, steganography,
steganalysis
Internet topology, autonomous database
construction
Research themes
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Establishment of a Centre for Information
Security Studies (CISS)
Motivation
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Information security is a critical problem in the future
development of information and communications
technology
 Will remain so for the foreseeable future
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Government
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Business
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E.g. Secure financial processing, e-commerce
Citizens
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E.g. NHS information initiative, Home Office ID card
E.g. Identity theft, privacy, trust
Motivation
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Scope is very broad, including:
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Biometric Identification
Smart Cards
Cryptography
Digital Rights Management
Network Protocols
Data Forensics
Usability & practicability
All need to be effectively integrated
Proposal
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Create an industry-university research
consortium
Funded by industry and other institutions
Research steered by academic/industrial
peer-review funding panels
Currently in discussion with BT
Postgraduate education
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Postgraduate education
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M.Sc. in Information Security
Beginning Sept. 2005
- http://infosec.adastral.ucl.ac.uk
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