Biography:
Derek McAuley is Director of the Intel Research lab in Cambridge , and holds an affiliated lecturer position at the University of Cambridge. After a PhD and lectureship at Cambridge he moved to a chair in Department of Computer Science at the University of Glasgow. He returned to Cambridge in July 1997, to help found the Cambridge Microsoft Research facility before starting the new Intel lab in July 2002.
His research interests include networking, distributed systems and operating systems. Current work includes building an optical switch for us in System Area Networks, new OS constructs for heterogeneous multi-core processors and understanding distributed systems behaviour through network measurement and modelling. He is a Fellow of the British Computer Society and on the Executive of the UKCRC, a computing research expert panel of the IEE and BCS.