WP 4 lead. Experts in science gateway development.
The University of Westminster was established in 1838 as the UK’s first polytechnic institution, with the aim to educate the working people of London. Today the University continues to build on this reputation, helping students from a variety of backgrounds to realise their full potential. The University has over 19,000 students from almost 170 different nationalities and collaborates with almost 200 different partners from business and industry. The University of Westminster will be represented in the project by the Research Centre for Parallel Computing (CPC). The CPC is a Research Centre at the School of Computer Science and Engineering with research focus on parallel and distributed computing. The CPC has participated in and led several large European projects in this area during the past ten years with focus on scalable cloud computing solutions, application level cloud orchestration and its utilisation by research, business and industry. A major research output of the Centre is the MiCADO application-level orchestrator for the cloud to edge computing continuum.
Prof. Tamas Kiss is a Professor in Distributed Computing, and Director of CPC. He holds a PhD in Distributed Computing. His research interests include distributed and parallel computing, cloud, cluster and grid computing. He has been involved in several FP7/H2020/Horizon Europe research projects as Project Coordinator or Work Package Leader. He has been acting as Project Coordinator of the FP7 CloudSME Project developing a cloud-based simulation platform for manufacturing and engineering SMEs, and the COLA – Cloud Orchestration at the Level Application project that developed the MiCADO automated deployment and autoscaling framework. Recently he coordinated the H2020 ASCLEPIOS – Advanced Secure Cloud Encrypted Platform for Internationally Orchestrated Solutions in Healthcare project. He co-authored one book and more than 150 scientific papers in journals, conference proceedings and as book chapters. He also serves as Editor in Chief of the Journal of Grid Computing, published by Springer Nature.
Dr. Gabriele Pierantoni is a Senior Lecturer in Distributed Computing and Deputy Director of CPC. He holds a PhD in Distributed Computing. His research interests include distributed and parallel computing, cloud, cluster and grid computing. He has been involved in several FP6-FP7 research projects, currently he is participating in two H2020 projects, CloudiFacturing – Cloudification of Production Engineering for Predictive Digital Manufacturing, and ASCLEPIOS – Advanced Secure Cloud Encrypted Platform for Internationally Orchestrated Solutions in Healthcare. He co-authored two books and more than 20 scientific papers in journals, conference proceedings and as book chapters.
Prof. Gabor Terstyanszky is a Professor in Distributed Computing. His research interests include distributed and parallel computing focusing on cloud computing and workflows. He supervised several European projects: COPERNICUS, COST as local coordinator and had a leading role in the FP7 EDGeS, DEGISCO, EDGI, SHIWA and SCI- BUS projects. He was the Principal Investigator of the ER-flow project. He published more than 130 scientific papers at conferences and in journals.