Prof. Liam Murphy

I am a Full Professor in the School of Computer Science at University College Dublin, Ireland. I got my Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences from the University of California, Berkeley in 1992. A few more details are in my brief bio and I have a LinkedIn profile.

You can email me at liam DOT murphy AT ucd DOT ie

You can find some information here on my Teaching, Editorial Boards & Programme Committees, Research, and External Examining.

Teaching:

·        COMP20080: Computer Science for Engineers II (online access through CS Moodle only)

·        Foundations of Computing (COMP30010) (online access through CS Moodle only)

·        ASE: Performance of Distributed Systems (COMP40550) (online access through CS Moodle only)

·        COMP40010: Performance of Computer Systems (online access through CS Moodle only)

Editorial Boards & Programme Committees:

§  I am an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting, which is one of the most cited journals in Telecommunications and features peer-reviewed papers on areas ranging from satellite and Internet broadcasting to traditional RF topics.

§  I am an Associate Editor for the IET Electronics Letters, which is a peer-reviewed rapid-communication journal, which publishes short original research papers every two weeks on the latest developments in all electronic and electrical engineering related fields.

§  I was an Associate Technical Editor for IEEE Communications Magazine 2008-2012, which is one of the most cited journals in Telecommunications and Electrical/Electronic Engineering and provides peer-reviewed information on all aspects of communications.

§  I was an Editor for the IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials 2006-2012, an online journal published by the IEEE Communications Society for tutorials and surveys covering all aspects of the communications field.

§  I was the Co-Editor (with Dr. Nicola Cranley) of a book, Wireless Multimedia: Quality of Service and Solutions, published by Idea Group Inc. in July 2008.

 

Current/recent International Conference responsibilities include:

·              Member of the Technical Programme Committee for IEEE Globecom, the Global Communications Conference.

·              Member of the Technical Programme Committee for IEEE ICC, the International Conference on Communications.

·              Member of the Technical Programme Committee for the IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC).

·              Member of the Technical Programme Committee for the ACM International Conference on Multimedia.

Research:

I help to run the Performance Engineering Laboratory (PEL) research group.

·        To date, I have supervised/co-supervised 24 Ph.D. and 8 Research Masters students to graduation.

I was a director of crovan, a UCD/DCU campus company.

For many years I was an IBM Center for Advanced Studies (Dublin) Faculty Fellow.

A list of my research publications and profiles is here.

External Examining of Research Postgraduate students:

§   Ph.D., September 2022, School of Computing, Technological University Dublin

§   Ph.D., January 2019, School of Computing, Technological University Dublin

§   Ph.D., May 2017, Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, Trinity College Dublin

§   Ph.D., June 2014, School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, Queen Mary University of London

§   Ph.D., March 2014, Department of Information and Communication Technologies, Technical University of Cartagena, Spain

§   Ph.D., September 2012, Department of Electronic Engineering, Cork Institute of Technology, Ireland

§   Ph.D., March 2010, School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, Queen Mary University of London

§   Ph.D., July 2008, Laboratoire de Reseaux et Systemes Multimedia, Universite d'Evry Val-d'Essonne, France

§   Ph.D., June 2007, Centre For Quantifiable Quality of Service in Communication Systems, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim

§  Ph.D., May 2006, School of Information Systems, Computing and Mathematics, Brunel University, U.K.

§   Ph.D., November 2005, School of Electrical & Electronic Engineering, Queens University Belfast.

 

§  M.Phil., January 2011, School of Electronic and Communications Engineering, Dublin Institute of Technology (Kevin St.), Ireland.

§  M.Eng., November 2007, Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering, University of Limerick, Ireland.

§  M.Phil., October 2005, School of Electronic and Communications Engineering, Dublin Institute of Technology (Kevin St.), Ireland.

§  M.Eng., September 2005, Centre for Adaptive Wireless Systems, Cork Institute of Technology, Ireland.

 

External Examining of Taught Postgraduate/Undergraduate Programmes:

§        School of Computing and Intelligent Systems, University of Ulster, Magee, Northern Ireland (2007-2011): PgDip/MSc: Computing & Intelligent Systems; Computing & Creative Technologies; Financial Services

§        DCU Oscail (2010-2014): M.Sc. in Internet Systems; BSc in IT (Communications Technology strand)