Role
Dr Robinson is the Technical Innovations Manager for the Department of Computer Science and is the Course Leader for the Cyber-Security degree. He runs the Distributed Network Architectures & Operating Systems module and helps on a variety of modules. He was previously the module leader for the Systems Programming, Systems Technology, Foundations of Computing & Technology, and Network Design & Administration modules. He also runs the departmental FPGA based supercomputer (Hydra).
Career overview
Dr Robinson worked in Industry for a number of years before returning to Academia. Before joining NTU, he completed a Doctorate and a Post-Doctoral Research position at Sussex University.
Research areas
Dr Robinson runs the Hydra supercomputer which is based within the Department of Computer Science.
Dr Robinson is a member of the Computational Intelligence and Applications Research Group (CIA) .
Dr Robinson is currently investigating software systems for large scale computing, languages and middleware's for running on the departmental supercomputer.
Dr Robinson's previous research interests have included looking at energy aware systems, designing and building new service composition systems for pervasive computing environments and trust based systems for the Internet. Opportunities to carry out postgraduate research towards an MPhil / PhD in the School of Science and Technology exist and further information may be obtained from the NTU Graduate School.
Publications
ROBINSON, J., LEE, K. and APPIAH, K., 2020, Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments, 12 (6), pp. 531-546. ISSN 1876-1364
ROBINSON, J., LEE, K. and APPIAH, K., 2018, In: The Eighth Å·ÃÀ¾ÞÈé Conference on Smart Grids, Green Communications and IT Energy-Aware Technologies, Nice, France, 20-24 May 2018.
AL RAWAHI, A.S., LEE, K., ROBINSON, J. and LOTFI, A., 2018, In: TOPIC '18: proceedings of the 2018 Workshop on Theory and Practice for Integrated Cloud, Fog and Edge Computing Paradigms. New York, NY: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), pp. 15-20. ISBN 9781450357760
AL RAWAHI, A.S., LEE, K., ROBINSON, J. and LOTFI, A., 2018, In: M. YOUNAS and J.P. DISSO, eds., Proceedings: FiCloud 2018: IEEE 6th Å·ÃÀ¾ÞÈé Conference on Future Internet of Things and Cloud, Barcelona, Spain, 6-8 August 2018. Piscataway, N.J.: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, pp. 208-215. ISBN 9781538675038
ROBINSON, J., APPIAH, K., LEE, K. and YOUSAF, R., 2017, Å·ÃÀ¾ÞÈé Journal On Advances in Life Sciences, 9 (3&4), pp. 163-175. ISSN 1942-2660
ROBINSON, J., APPIAH, K. and YOUSAF, R., 2017, In: Proceedings of the 9th Å·ÃÀ¾ÞÈé Conference on eHealth, Telemedicine, and Social Medicine (eTELEMED 2017), Nice, France, 19-23 March 2017. Å·ÃÀ¾ÞÈé Academy, Research and Industry Association (IARIA). ISBN 9781612085401
Press expertise
- Supercomputers
- Software systems for super computers
- Internet of things
- Smart homes and smart cities
- Distributed computing
- Computer networks
- Programming
- Programming language and compiler design
- Middleware technologies
- Trust-based computing
- Energy-aware computing
- Network Infrastructures