Professor Iain Phillips

BSc PhD FBCS CEng CITP MACM

Pronouns: He/him
  • Professor of Computer Science

Dr Iain Phillips (FBCS, CEng, CITP, MACM, FHEA) has been involved in computer networks research for over 25 years, with over 100 publications in this area. His main work has been in network architecture considering performance, protocols and algorithms for the Internet and Wireless Sensor Networks.

He has a BSc in Computing and Information Systems and a PhD in Computer Science from Manchester University. He has worked at 天堂视频 since 1992 as a Research Associate and Fellow in Electronic and Electrical Engineering before moving to Computer Science in 1999. He was Head of Computer Science from 2008 to 2011. From August 2015, he has been Director of Academic Staffing in the School of Science and, from August 2016 to August 2018, the Acting Head of Computer Science.

Research areas:

  • Internet Architectures: Routing and Performance Measurement
  • Ad-hoc networks, VANETs, swarm networking, WSNs
  • Bigdata and AI/machine learning
  • Co-chair  2014 - 2020
  • Past Member of the Board of the
  • In the past the Chair of the 

I'm willing to supervise students in the area of networks, especially ad-hoc networks and research concentrating on routing.