Research staff in the IDEAS Digital Technologies research theme:

  • Hatem Ahriz

    Hatem Ahriz

    Research interests are in using Artificial Intelligence techniques to solve real-life combinatorial and optimisation problems.  

  • Ian Allison

    Ian Allison

    Head of School of Computing. Expertise focuses on the management and deployment of information systems, drawing together engineering and organisational perspectives.  

  • Ines Arana

    Ines Arana

    Inés is interested in the development and application of Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques to complex problems.  

  • Julian Bass

    Julian Bass

    Research interests are in software development methodologies, hard real-time, fault-tolerant distributed computer-based systems and the use of ICT for educational purposes in non-OECD countries.  

  • Susan Craw

    Susan Craw H&S

    Director of IDEAS Research Institute. Her research interests include case-based reasoning, knowledge discovery, automated knowledge acquisition and refinement, and data/text mining.  

  • Daniel Doolan

    Daniel Doolan

    Main research interest is mobile computing, graphics and multimodal interaction.  

  • Eyad Elyan

    Eyad Elyan

    Dr. Elyan is an active researcher at the Institute for Innovation, Design & Sustainability at Robert Gordon University. His principal research interests are in the areas of 3D object Modelling and Recognition.  

  • Horacio Gonzalez-Velez

    Horacio Gonzalez-Velez

    Research entails the deployment of structured parallelism approaches in heterogeneous computing systems such as clouds, grids, and clusters.  

  • Patrik Holt

    Patrik Holt

    Research Professor in the School of Computing at Robert Gordon University, and Director of the Computational Systems Joint Research Initiative.  

  • Sampath Kannangara

    Sampath Kannangara

    Dr Kannangara is Leader of the Centre for Video Communications. He is a researcher and developer in video coding and communications and has made a significant contribution to the video communications industry through published research and development. His research interests include, low-complexity video coding, perceptually optimised video coding and fully configurable video coding.  

  • David Lonie

    Lonie, Dr David

    Research interests include Computational and Mathematical Financial Modelling, Applications of Information Geometry in Computing, Finance and Physical Sciences, Mathematical General Relativity, and Geometrisation of Dynamical Systems.  

  • Robert Lothian

    Robert Lothian

    Research interest focuses on Textual Case-based Reasoning and related areas.  

  • John McCall

    John McCall

    John is a Principal Member of the IDEAS Research Institute where he is responsible for the Digital Technologies theme.  

  • Laura Muir

    Laura Muir

    Dr Muir is a Senior Lecturer (Knowledge Exchange) in the Department of Information Management. Her research interests include Perceptually Optimised Video Communication Systems, Information Systems Design and Usability and Information Accessibility.  

  • Andrei Petrovski

    Andrei Petrovski

    Andrei's primary research interests lie in the field of Computational Intelligence (CI) - particularly, in the application of CI heuristics.  

  • Dawei Song

    Song, Dawei

    Senior Member of the Institute for Design, Environment and Sustainability.  

  • Nirmalie Wiratunga

    Nirmalie Wiratunga

    Reader in Computing. Her research interests are in knowledge discovery from data and text and Case-based Reasoning (CBR) Systems  

  • Yafan Zhao

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    Research interests in Video CODEC optimisation, Power and coding performance optimisation for video communications, Variable-complexity video coding, Error-resilience video coding.