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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  • SICSA Director of Knowledge Exchange

 

Fellowships and Awards

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

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

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...

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 5–12-year old children was investigate...

Sagittal joint kinematics, moments, and powers are predominantly characterized by speed of progression, not age, in normal children.

Journal Article
Stansfield, B., Hillman, S., Hazlewood, M., Lawson, A., Mann, A. M., Loudon, I. R. & Robb, J. E. (2001)
Sagittal joint kinematics, moments, and powers are predominantly characterized by speed of progression, not age, in normal children. Journal of Pediatric Orthopaedics. 21, 403-411. ISSN 0271-6798
Twenty-six healthy 7-year-old children were enrolled in a 5-year longitudinal study to examine the importance of age and speed in the characterization of sagittal joint angles...

Digital Exclusion Cyber Security - Improving The Online Safety Of Digitally Excluded Users

Report
Koikkalainen, H., Lapok, P., Johnston, L., & Lawson, A. (2022)
Digital Exclusion Cyber Security - Improving The Online Safety Of Digitally Excluded Users. University of St Andrews/ Scottish Government Cyber Resilliance Unit
This exploratory study was designed to explore cyber security issues experienced by vulnerable adults who do not regularly have direct access to digital devices and the intern...

Investigation and modelling of emissions at signalised and roundabout junctions.

Presentation / Conference
Saleh, W. & Lawson, A. (2012, January)
Investigation and modelling of emissions at signalised and roundabout junctions. Paper presented at The Tenth International Conference of World Association for Sustainable Development (WASD), Abu Dhabi

SPoC: Protecting Patient Privacy for e-Health Services in the Cloud

Conference Proceeding
Fan, L., Buchanan, W. J., Lo, O., Thuemmler, C., Lawson, A., Uthmani, O., …Khedim, A. S. (2011)
SPoC: Protecting Patient Privacy for e-Health Services in the Cloud. In eTELEMED 2012, 99-104. ISBN 978-1-61208-179-3
The use of digital technologies in providing health care services is in general subsumed under the term e-Health. The Data Capture and Auto Identification Reference (DACAR) pr...

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