Professor Liam Murphy B.E., M.Sc., Ph.D. Liam Murphy received a B.E. in Electrical Engineering from University College Dublin in 1985, & an M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences from the University of California, Berkeley in 1988 and 1992 respectively. He is currently a Full Professor of Computer Science & Informatics at University College Dublin, where he is Director of the Performance Engineering Laboratory. Prof. Murphy has published over 150 refereed journal and conference papers on various topics, including multimedia transmissions, dynamic and adaptive resource allocation algorithms in computer/communication networks, and software development. His current research projects involve computer network convergence and software performance engineering. Prof. Murphy is a Member of the IEEE (Communications, Broadcasting, and Computer societies) and a Fellow of the Irish Computer Society.