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Dr Nik Bessis

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Dr Nik Bessis, Principal Lecturer

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FBCS, MIEEE, FHEA

UPDATE (1st December 2010):

Nik is now working full-time as a Professor of Computer Science at the School of Computing and Maths, University of Derby. Professor Bessis is also the Head of Distributed and Intelligent Systems research group. Nik also works part-time at the University of Bedfordshire; he is mainly involved in projects (like MSV) and curriculum development.

Nik joined the Department as a Lecturer in 2001 and was rapidly promoted to Senior Lecturer. In September 2004 he took on the role of Postgraduate Course Manager. In 2009, he promoted to a Principal Lecturer (US Associate Professor) through the University Promotion Round and took on the role of University Extended Degrees (Return to Learning) Course Manager. Nik coordinated the MSc project and co-chaired the Department’s curriculum development. Nik is IEEE member and Fellow of HEA and BCS.

In his spare time, Nik enjoys walking, watching movies and F1 races and meeting people from all around the world.

Other References

http://www.derby.ac.uk/staff-search/professor-nik-bessis

Qualifications

  • PhD -De Montfort University, Leicester, UK
  • MA - De Montfort University, Leicester, UK
  • BA - T.E.I. of Athens, Greece

Teaching Expertise

  • Course Leader: University Extended Degrees (ExtD)
  • Course Leader: Courses/Programme Manager (MSc)
  • Course Leader: Information Systems (BSc)
  • Unit Leader: Emerging Technologies (MSc)
  • Unit Leader: Project Coordinator (MSc)
  • Unit Leader: Online Database Applications (MSc)
  • Unit Leader: Grid Services and Distributed Net (MSc)
  • Unit Leader: Data Modeling and Management Pr (MSc)
  •  Unit Leader: Adv IT Strategies and Paradigms (BSc)
  •  Unit Leader: Decision Support Systems and DM (BSc)
  •  Unit Leader: Syst. Dev. And Modern Databases (BSc)

Publications

  • Founding Editor-in-Chief International Journal of Distributed Systems and Technologies (IJDST, 2010 -)
  • Founding Conference Chair on Collaborative Technologies (IADIS-CT, 2010 -) General Conference Chair on Emerging Intelligent Data and Web Technologies (EIDWT, 2010 -) Conference/Workshops/Track Organiser and/or Chair in several events, i.e. AINA, CloudCom, INCoS, 3PGCIC, CISIS, IMIS, PARELEC, etc (2009 - )
  •  Book Co-Editor with Dr Fatos Xhafa: Next Generation Data Technologies for Collective Computational IntelligenceBook Co-Editor with Dr Eleana Asimakopoulou: Advanced ICTs for Disaster Management and Threat DetectionBook Editor: Grid Technology for Maximizing Collaborative Decision Management and Support
  • Towards an Integrated Vision across Inter-Cooperative Grid Virtual Organizations, Future Generation Information Technology, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer, ISBN: 3-642-10508-4, p.p.: 120-128 (Best paper award, 3.5% acceptance rate from over 1050 submissions).
  • Using Metadata Snapshots for Extending Resource Discovery Functionality of Ant Agents in Inter-cooperative Grid Communities, INTERNET-2009 (sponsored by IEEE), The first International Conference on Evolving Internet, ISBN: 978-0-7695-3748-1 p.p.: 89-94, (Best paper award).
  • Incomplete list of publications DBLP GoogleScholar

Research Interests and Projects

  • Crowds, Clouds, Inter-Clouds, Internet of Things Data Grids, Data Push, Online Data Architectures
  • Data Modeling, Analysis and Visualisation
  •  Disaster Management and Threat Detection
  •  Distributed Systems & Next Generation Technologies
  •  Dynamic Web and Web Systems Development User Requirements and Needs Analysis
  •  MSV: Co-I (Sep 2009 – Dec 2012); Strep, EU
  •  RiT: PI (Jul 2008 – Dec 2009); CETL
  •  EMERGE: WP Leader (Jan 2007 – Mar 2009); JISC
  •  ACHIEVER: PI (Apr 2007 - Dec 2008); MDDA
  •  UBERN: PI (Nov 2006 - Jun 2007), CETL
  •  EERN: WP Leader (Jan 2005 - Oct 2006); JISC
  •  Commercial KEEP's Supervisor for BlackBox Analytics Commercial KEEP’s Supervisor for EuropSupervision

Expertise

Nik has also a track record in UG/PG course and PhD external examination and UG/PG course validation such as in University of Wales (NEWI), University of Staffordshire, University of Northampton, University of Derby, University of Central Lancashire and University of Greenwich. Nik was also a Research Informed Teaching (RiT) and Senior Teaching Fellow (2008-2009, 2006) and led the RiT initiative in the Department in 2009. During his MSc course management period, Nik has led the periodic reviews and validations of 14 MSc courses. Nik also led the MSc documentation for the QAA visit in 2004 and was a University panel member panel for the QAA visit in 2009.

Nik’s research interest is the analysis, research, and delivery of user-led developments with regard to trust, data integration, annotation, and data push methods and resource discovery services in distributed environments such as grids and clouds. Nik has published over 100 works and won 2 best paper awards.

Recent invited keynotes and talks include: 

  • Second International Conference NexTech-2010
  •  Third International Conference ICADIWT-2010
  •  Fourth International Conference CISIS-2010
  •  University of Seville, University of Coventry
  •  University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland

Contact Details

T: +44 (0)1582 743476


E:  nik.bessis@beds.ac.uk

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