Dr Andrew Scott G7VAV
MBCS, MIET, Member ACM, Member IEEE
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Senior Lecturer [D35]
Computing Department
InfoLab 21, South Drive
Lancaster University
Lancaster, LA1 4WA
United Kingdom
 
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Andrew Scott is a Senior Lecturer in the Computing Department at Lancaster University, UK. He has been a member of the former Distributed Multimedia Research Group since the late eighties, initially working on process control systems. Andrew then moved onto the development of networked multimedia workstations and devices, at a time when this demanded custom hardware and parallel processing. After working on ATM based systems, he became interested in wireless networks, which indirectly led to the University deploying a regional wireless network; this eventually evolved into Cleo.
Andrew worked on early web based systems developing user tracking and Internet mapping systems, establishing the University web presence along the way.
Following this, he established Lancaster's IPv6 group in early 1997. This work has continued as the Mobile IPv6 Systems Research Laboratory, which has a large-scale industrially funded network testbed at its core.
Other work has included the development of an Active Network router and host architecture (LARA) that was probably unique in being shown to be usable in real networks at typical line speeds. His current interests include network testbeds; network architectures and protocols, particularly those relating to mobile and ad hoc systems; embedded (including mobile) devices and systems. Current projects include the EU ANA project, looking at autonomic networking, and the UK Level-0 network, which is deploying a UK wide network testbed.
He continues to lead the IPv6 group at Lancaster which has recently completed implementations of Mobile-IPv6 for Cisco Systems and Microsoft; the latter has been shipped with Microsoft operating systems and was recognised by Bill Gates with the first Microsoft Windows Embedded Academic Excellence Award.
    Bill Gates presents award
Bill Gates presents award
Andrew was a winner of the Lancaster University Prize for Commercialisation in 2003 and was nominated for the University teaching prize in 2006.
   
He has participated in a number of European collaborative projects and run several EPSRC projects. He has been a project evaluator for both the EU IST programme and the UK EPSRC, and has served on the technical programme committees for a number of international conferences and workshops. Andrew is a member of the BCS, IET (IEE), ACM and IEEE, and has served on a number of IET committees.
   
Andrew is also a member of the IEEE Computer and Communications Societies, and has been a Microsoft MVP.
Applications: If you are interested in doing research at Lancaster you should apply by following the departmental application procedure.
For taught courses at both undergraduate and postgraduate level see the ‘Studying at Lancaster’ pages.
© 2006 - 2008 Andrew Scott