Many research groups are focusing on big data software systems related to the challenges of large scale data volumes, data heterogeneity or the velocity/speed of production of data. Whilst all important, a grander challenge facing computing scientists is to tackle inter-disciplinary research communities and their diverse research needs. This talk will describe the many lessons learnt over the last decade building such platforms that have since become transformative. We demonstrate this with examples in the health and urban research domains and discuss plans for the future.
Professor Richard O. Sinnott is the Director of eResearch at the University of Melbourne and Professor of Applied Computing Systems. In these roles he is responsible for all aspects of eResearch (research-oriented IT development) at the University. He has been lead software engineer/architect on an extensive portfolio of national and international projects worth over $400m, with specific focus on those research domains requiring finer-grained access control (security). Prior to coming to Melbourne, Richard was the Technical Director of the UK National e-Science Centre; Director of e-Science at the University of Glasgow; Deputy Director (Technical) for the Bioinformatics Research Centre also at the University of Glasgow, and for a while the Technical Director of the National Centre for e-Social Science. He has a PhD in Computing Science, an MSc in Software Engineering and a BSc in Theoretical Physics (Hons). He has over 350 peer-reviewed publications across a range of computing and application-specific domains. He teaches High Performance Computing and Cloud Computing at the University of Melbourne.
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