Following a number of years within the video games industry, in roles including lead programmer and managing director, increasing research interests led to a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Glasgow University. My research interests concern topics such as high-performance parallel computing systems; compilers for GPGPU and heterogeneous multicore architectures; low-power computing; edge computing; secure programming; and functional programming. While with Codeplay Software of Edinburgh I have had research and managerial responsibility on EU FP7 projects including Peppher, LPGPU and CARP.

My current research investigates the implementation of parallel programming models for GPGPU programming, including Khronos SYCL. I am co-investigator on 3 Innovate UK KTP projects (Lumen Research, Visual Management Systems, and Kibble); and contributor to many open source projects including GCC, LLVM and Boost. I also lead the ongoing development of a highly generic C++20 metaprogramming library (Curtains), as well as of a compile-time implementation of the C++20 standard library (C'est). I am a member of the BSI C++ Panel, and of the Khronos advisory panels for both SYCL and OpenCL.

My current research students include:

• 2018 – Present: Mr Raymond Holder (M.Phil./Ph.D.), Applications of Immersive Technology to Pedagogy for Tertiary Education (Funded by the University of the West of Scotland)

Previous Ph.D. students:

• Completed Aug 2022: Mr Andrew Gozillon (M.Phil./Ph.D.), Metaprogramming for Heterogeneous Parallelism (Funded by the University of the West of Scotland)

A key structural change in modern computing is the move towards highly parallel, low-power, and heterogeneous hardware architectures. My research aims to tackle challenges integrated with such developments, including the need to manage the complexity of software development through novel parallel programming models; the reduction in computing's carbon footprint through the use of related frameworks; the application of functional programming and advanced type checking mechanisms to provide reassurance of software correctness; and the improvement of performance portability in computational science. I am also interested in the long-term improvements to human-computer interaction (HCI) facilitated by the novel integration of eye tracking, along with augmented and virtual reality in ubiquitous computing; and the relevance of such opportunities for future smart cities.

• Software Tools
• Semiconductors
• Gaming and Interactive Graphics

• High Performance Computing
• Functional Programming
• Compiler Technology

• Functional Programming
• Secure Programming in C++ and Mozilla Rust
• Parallel and GPGPU Programming
• Parsing, Translation and Compiler Technology
• Message Passing Interface Programming
• Embedded, Games Console, and Interactive 3D Graphics Development