External Advisory Board
CTVR's research agenda is shaped by the research strand leaders in consultation with their industrial partners and by an external advisory board.
Dr Chris Horn
We are delighted to announce the appointment of Dr Chris Horn as Chairman of both the External Advisory Board and the Strategic Board. One of Ireland's most successful entrepreneurs, Dr. Chris Horn advises corporations and governments, contributing regularly to high-level discussions about management, technology, and the global economy.
He has advised the Irish Government on a range of issues and has served in the following capacities: Chairman of an advisory group on Ireland's future human capital needs; Advisor on national broadband network infrastructure for major cities; Director of Science Foundation Ireland, advising on national science funding policy.
He worked for the European Commission in Brussels on a 10- year program to improve Europe's high-tech industry, later serving as one of the program's leading researchers while an academic member of staff at the University of Dublin.
In 1991 he co-founded IONA Technologies, one of Ireland's leading companies, and in 1997 took the company public in what was then the fourth-largest IPO in Nasdaq history. He retired as CEO of IONA in June 2000, but returned to fill the position from 2003 until spring 2005.
Andrew recently joined Dartmouth College as an Associate Professor in Computer Science and is a member of the Center for Mobile Computing (CMC) and the Institute for Security Technology Studies (ISTS). Prior to joining Dartmouth Andrew was an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering at Columbia University (1996-2005) and a member of the COMET Group. His current research interests include the development of resilient sensor networks, intrusion detection systems for WiFi networks, and open spectrum wireless networks.
Andrew received his PhD in Computer Science (1996) from Lancaster University, England, and the NSF Career Award (1999) for his research in programmable wireless networking. Prior to joining academia he spent 10 years working in industry both in Europe and the USA in product research and development of computer networks and wireless packet networks. Recently, Andrew spent a sabbatical year (2003-2004) at the Computer Lab, Cambridge University, as an EPSRC Visiting Fellow.
Norman M. Sadeh is an Associate Professor (with tenure) in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). He is director of CMU´s e-Supply Chain Management Laboratory, director of its Mobile Commerce Laboratory, and co-Director of the School´s PhD Program in Computation, Organizations and Society.
Dr. Sadeh has been on the faculty at CMU since 1991. He built his initial reputation in the area of planning, scheduling and constraint satisfaction, developing techniques and tools that have been used by a number of companies and government organizations. He is also well-known for his seminal research in supply chain management and mixed initiative workflow management, which has influenced technical and commercial developments at several large companies. Over the past five years, Norman has conducted pioneering research in pervasive computing and semantic web technologies for privacy and context awareness and is currently extending these techniques to inter-enterprise collaboration scenarios.
In the late nineties, Norman worked as program manager with the European Commission´s ESPRIT research program, prior to serving for two years as Chief Scientist of its US$650M (EURO 550M) initiative in "New Methods of Work and eCommerce" within the Information Society Technologies (IST) program. Norman has written over 120 publications and is on the editorial board of several international journals. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science at CMU, a MS degree in computer science from the University of Southern California and a BS/MS degree in electrical engineering and applied physics from the Free University of Brussels (Belgium).
Wilson Sibbett received the B.Sc. degree in physics from Queen´s University, Belfast, Ireland, in 1970, and the Ph.D. degree from Imperial College in 1973.
He conducted research and teaching activities as a Staff Member of the Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College, and in 1985, he transferred to the University of St Andrews to take up the post of Professor of Natural Philosophy. At present he is the Director of Research in the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of St Andrews and the Co-Technical Director of the Photonics Innovation Centre at St Andrews. Since January 2002 Professor Sibbett has held responsibility as the Chief Scientific Advisor to the Scottish Executive. Wilson is currently co-author on over 300 papers.
Brian Caulfield joined Trinity Venture Capital in June 2002. Brian is a Computer Engineer graduate from Trinity College Dublin. In 1992 Brian co-founded Exceptis Technologies where he was CEO and CTO. Exceptis developed dispute management software for the electronic⁄card payments sector that was sold to blue-chip banking customers in Europe, the United States and Asia. Exceptis was sold to Trintech Group (NASDAQ: TTPA) in November 2000. Brian has co-founded two other venture capital backed software start-ups, Similarity Systems and Prediction Dynamics. Brian represents Trinity on the Boards of AePONA and SteelTrace.
Patrick O'Connor received his engineering training at the UK Royal Air Force Technical College. He served in the RAF, including tours on aircraft maintenance and in the Reliability and Maintainability office of the Ministry of Defence (Air). Later he worked as Reliability Manager for British Aerospace Dynamics and for British Rail Research. Since 1995 he has worked as an independent consultant on engineering management, reliability, quality and safety. He is the author of "Practical Reliability Engineering", published by John Wiley (4th. edition 2002), “Test Engineering” (John Wiley 2001) and "The Practice of Engineering Management", (John Wiley 1994) (updated and re-published as “The New Management of Engineering” in 2005). He is also the author of the chapter on reliability and quality engineering in the Academic Press Encyclopaedia of Physical Science and Technology, and until 1999 was the UK editor of the Wiley journal "Quality and Reliability Engineering International". He has written many papers and articles on quality and reliability engineering and management, and he lectures at universities and at other venues on these subjects.
In 1984 he received the Allen Chop Award, presented by the American Society for Quality, for his contributions to reliability science and technology.
Jorge is Scientific Officer in the area of Mobile and Personal Communications at the European Commission, DG XIII, now DG Information Society, a position he has held since September 1996. He is involved in Third Generation and Broadband Wireless systems, Spectrum and Regulatory issues, Reconfigurable Radio, WLANs, ad hoc networks, sensor networks, PANs, UWB, Terrestrial Positioning Technologies and Location-based Mobile Value Added Services, Wireless IP, and Fourth Generation systems. He received the SDR Forum 2003 Industry Achievement Award in recognition of his outstanding contributions, research and development in the field of SDR. He is a member of the Advisory Board of John Wiley's Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Journal, and of the Editorial Board of Kluwer Academic Publishers' Wireless Personal Communications Journal . He has recently taken up the position of Associate Editor for Vehicular Communications for the IEEE VTS News.
