Alistair Lawson
Alistair Lawson

Alistair Lawson

Associate Professor

 0131 455 2730

  A.Lawson@napier.ac.uk

  

Biography

I am a member of the Research Centre for Algorithms, Visualisation and Evolving Systems, member of the CyberAcademy, and co-leader of the Data Science Special Interest Group within the School of Computing at 麻豆社区.聽 I supervise Honours, MSc, Internship, and PhD students, and am line manager for a number of Research Staff.聽 My teaching is in the Software Engineering Subject Group at the School of Computing at Edinburgh Napier University, and I link my modules closely to my research and knowledge exchange experience in order to give students learning experiences and skills that are highly sought after by employers. I am Programme Leader for MSc data Sciences, and I am also School Academic Lead for Quality.

My Research and Knowledge Exchange interests are wide and include successful projects in the areas of software engineering, applications development, healthcare, speech and language, scalable systems, cloud computing, industry 4.0, information sharing, simulation, e-security, e-commerce, and e-learning.

Previous collaborative research grants include the application of computer security within e-Health around the trust and governance of enhanced information sharing, such as around care of the elderly using Trusted Cloud-based services [EPSRC: TS/I002561/1], and around an enhanced Cloud-based e-Health system [EPSRC: TS/H001883/1]. Other work includes research into Privacy, Trust, and Online Reputation.

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  • SICSA Director of Knowledge Exchange

 

Fellowships and Awards

  • Scottish Knowledge Exchange Awards - finalist (eFrail)
  • Scottish Digital Technology Award Finalist (Cloud4Health)
  • Guardian Toolkit project through to the final round of the Convergence Challenge
  • Cloud4Health wins 2nd prize for Best IT Project at Digital Innovation Awards
  • Mat Miehling wins best final year PhD presention at Faculity Conference
  • Institution of Engineering and Technology: Innovation Award Finalist
  • British Computing 麻豆社区: Technology Excellence Award Finalist
  • National Award winning Knowledge Transfer Project Finalist
  • Alistair Lawson of IIDI and Fast-Answers.com are shortlisted for Interface Excellence Award

 

Media Activity

  • IIDI collaboration leads to innovation in the delivery of popular Gaelic language teaching resources

 

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G脿idhlig 2 IPA: developing Gaelic text-to-phoneme (TTP) software.

Presentation / Conference
Lawson, A., Corti, R., Cruickshank, P., & Bauer, M. (2010, August)
G脿idhlig 2 IPA: developing Gaelic text-to-phoneme (TTP) software. Paper presented at Rannsachadh na G脿idhlig 2010, University of Aberdeen

Interagency data exchange protocols as computational data protection law

Presentation / Conference Contribution
Buchanan, W. J., Fan, L., Lawson, A., Schafer, B., Scott, R., Thuemmler, C., & Uthmani, O. (2010, December)
Interagency data exchange protocols as computational data protection law. Presented at JURIX 2010
The paper describes a collaborative project between computer scientist, police officers, medical professionals and social workers to develop a communication infrastructure tha...

Novel information sharing syntax for data sharing between police and community partners, using role-based security.

Presentation / Conference Contribution
Uthmani, O., Buchanan, W. J., Lawson, A., Thuemmler, C., Fan, L., Scott, R., Lavery, A., & Mooney, C. (2010, July)
Novel information sharing syntax for data sharing between police and community partners, using role-based security. Presented at 9th European Conference on Information Warfare and Security, University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki, Greece
The exchange of information between the police and community partners forms a central aspect of effective community service provision. In the context of policing, a robust and...

Radio frequency identification (RFID) in pervasive healthcare

Journal Article
Fekri, A. H., Thuemmler, C., Buchanan, W., Fekri, H., & Lawson, A. (2009)
Radio frequency identification (RFID) in pervasive healthcare. International Journal of Healthcare Technology and Management, 10(1/2), 119. doi:10.1504/ijhtm.2009.023731
Active and passive RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) technology are available and licensed for the use in hospitals, and can be used to establish highly reliable pervasive...

Automatic sleep stage decision support: the use of fuzzy sets based on amplitude statistics of electrophysiological signals.

Presentation / Conference
Gerst, A., Lawson, A., MacCallum, M., & Dickhaus, H. (2005, January)
Automatic sleep stage decision support: the use of fuzzy sets based on amplitude statistics of electrophysiological signals. Paper presented at Signal Processing Applications in Clinical Neurophysiology, British Institute of Radiology, London, UK

Requirements for getting a robot to grow-up

Conference Proceeding
Ross, P., Hart, E., Lawson, A., Webb, A., Prem, E., Poelz, P., & Morgavi, G. (2003)
Requirements for getting a robot to grow-up. In W. Banzhaf, T. Christaller, P. Dittrich, J. T. Kim, & J. Ziegler (Eds.), Advances in Artificial Life 7th European Conference, ECAL 2003, Dortmund, Germany, September 14-17, 2003. Proceedings. , (847-856). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-39432-7_91
Much of current robot research is about learning tasks in which the task to be achieved is pre-specified, a suitable technology for the task is chosen and the learning process...

A role for immunology in 'next generation' robots.

Conference Proceeding
Hart, E., Ross, P., Webb, A., & Lawson, A. (2003)
A role for immunology in 'next generation' robots. In J. Timmis, P. Bentley, & E. Hart (Eds.), Artificial Immune Systems. ICARIS 2003, 46-56. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-45192-1_5
Much of current robot research is about learning tasks in which the task to be achieved is pre-specified, a suitable technology for the task is chosen and the learning process...

Controlling a simulated Khepera with an XCS classifier system with memory.

Conference Proceeding
Webb, A., Hart, E., Ross, P. & Lawson, A. (2003)
Controlling a simulated Khepera with an XCS classifier system with memory. ISBN 9783540200574
Autonomous agents commonly suffer from perceptual aliasing in which differing situations are perceived as identical by the robots sensors, yet require different courses of act...

Requirements for getting a robot to grow up.

Conference Proceeding
Ross, P., Hart, E., Lawson, A., Webb, A., Prem, E., Poelz, P. & Morgavi, G. (2003)
Requirements for getting a robot to grow up. ISBN 9783540200574

Normalisation of gait data in children.

Journal Article
Stansfield, B., Hillman, S., Hazlewood, M., Lawson, A., Mann, A. M., Loudon, I. R. & Robb, J. E. (2003)
Normalisation of gait data in children. Gait and Posture. 17, 81-87. doi:10.1016/S0966-6362(02)00062-0. ISSN 0966-6362
The comparative effect of semi-dimensional (SD) and non-dimensional (ND) normalisation on the results of a longitudinal study of gait in 5鈥12-year old children was investigate...

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