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 Edinburgh Napier University.  I supervise Honours, MSc, Internship, and PhD students, and am line manager for a number of Research Staff.  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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Advisory panels and expert committees or witness

  • SICSA Director of Knowledge Exchange

 

Fellowships and Awards

  • Scottish Knowledge Exchange Awards - finalist (eFrail)
  • Cloud4Health wins 2nd prize for Best IT Project at Digital Innovation Awards
  • Scottish Digital Technology Award Finalist (Cloud4Health)
  • Guardian Toolkit project through to the final round of the Convergence Challenge
  • British Computing Society: Technology Excellence Award Finalist
  • Mat Miehling wins best final year PhD presention at Faculity Conference
  • Institution of Engineering and Technology: Innovation 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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Who would you trust to identify you in accessing your health record?

Conference Proceeding
Buchanan, W. J., Anderson, C., Smales, A., Varga, J., Burns, N., Uthmani, O., …Lawson, A. (2013)
Who would you trust to identify you in accessing your health record?
Within health and social care there is a strong need to provide access to highly sensitive information, and one which requires high levels of identity assurance. This paper ou...

Modelling of integrated trust, governance and access safi.re: Information Sharing Architecture.

Conference Proceeding
Buchanan, W. J., Uthmani, O., Fan, L., Burns, N., Lo, O., Lawson, A., …Anderson, C. (2013)
Modelling of integrated trust, governance and access safi.re: Information Sharing Architecture. In M. Felici (Ed.), Cyber Security and Privacy, (91-101). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-41205-9_8
We live in a world where trust relationships are becoming ever more important. This paper outlines how an architecture which abstracts these relationships between domains, org...

Information sharing.

Patent
Buchanan, W. J., Fan, L., Uthmani, O. & Lawson, A. (2013)
Information sharing.
http://www.google.com/patents/US20140201804 The present disclosure relates to improved information sharing and in particular to formal representations of information sharing p...

Using ICT to Supporting Course Developers, Tutors, and Students of Scottish Gaelic.

Presentation / Conference
Lawson, A., Mikuta, P., & Cruickshank, P. (2013, September)
Using ICT to Supporting Course Developers, Tutors, and Students of Scottish Gaelic. Poster presented at EUROCALL, University of Évora
This research and development is aimed at learners, tutors and course developers of Scottish Gaelic. The method of teaching Gaelic being used initially with the system is Ùlpa...

Investigations of impacts of junction design on emissions: are our junctions sustainable?

Journal Article
Saleh, W., & Lawson, A. (2013)
Investigations of impacts of junction design on emissions: are our junctions sustainable?. World journal of science, technology and sustainable development, 10(2), 143-151. https://doi.org/10.1108/20425941311323145
Purpose - An investigation of the driving behaviour and impacts on emission at two traffic junctions Design/methodology/approach - A signalised junction and a roundabout in E...

A methodology for improving reliability of traffic modeling.

Presentation / Conference
Saleh, W., & Lawson, A. (2012, December)
A methodology for improving reliability of traffic modeling. Paper presented at the 5th International Symposium on Transport Reliability (INSTR), Hong Kong

An investigation and evaluation of the performance and reliability of traffic modelling.

Presentation / Conference
Saleh, W., Lawson, A., & Burke, M. (2012, December)
An investigation and evaluation of the performance and reliability of traffic modelling. Paper presented at The 5th International Symposium on Transportation Network reliability (INSTR2012), Kowloon, Hong Kong

Evaluation of binary decision diagrams for redundancy, shadowing, generalisation and correlation in an Information sharing model.

Working Paper
Uthmani, O., Buchanan, W. J., Fan, L. & Lawson, A. (2012)
Evaluation of binary decision diagrams for redundancy, shadowing, generalisation and correlation in an Information sharing model
This paper defines a structured methodology which is based on the foundational work of Al-Shaer et al. in [1] and that of Hamed and Al-Shaer in [2]. It defines a methodology f...

A novel Information sharing model using binary decision diagrams for redundancy, shadowing, generalisation and correlation.

Working Paper
Uthmani, O., Buchanan, W. J., Fan, L. & Lawson, A. (2012)
A novel Information sharing model using binary decision diagrams for redundancy, shadowing, generalisation and correlation
This paper outlines a novel information sharing method using Binary Decision Diagrams (BBDs). It is inspired by the work of Al-Shaer and Hamed, who applied BDDs into the model...

Towards simulation of patient data for evaluation of E-health platform and services.

Presentation / Conference
Lo, O., Fan, L., Buchanan, W. J., Thuemmler, C., & Lawson, A. (2012, June)
Towards simulation of patient data for evaluation of E-health platform and services. Paper presented at 13th Annual Post Graduate Symposium on the Convergence of Telecommunications, Networking and Broadcasting, Liverpool
This paper presents the design and implementation of the Patient Simulator, a software application used for the simulation of patient data. The simulator aims to evaluate e- H...

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