Professor Richard Sinnott
At the time of his involvement in SHIP, Professor Richard O. Sinnott was the Technical Director of the National e-Science Centre at the University of Glasgow. He was also deputy director of the Bioinformatics Research Centre at Glasgow, and Technical Manager of the National Centre for e-Social Science based in Manchester. He holds a PhD from the University of Stirling where his research was based on the architectural design of open distributed processing systems; an MSc in Software Engineering from the University of Stirling, and a BSc in Theoretical Physics from the University of East Anglia in Norwich. Professor Sinnott's current research is focused around Grid computing and it's application to solve e-Research problems across a variety of research areas with specific focus on security. He has over 120 peer reviewed publications.
Richard is now e-Research Director at the University of Melbourne.
Publications
Recent book and journal publications
- S.F. Ahmed, M. Rodie, J. Jiang, R.O. Sinnott, The European DSD Registry - A Virtual Research Environment, to appear in International Journal on Sexual Development, Special issue on Disorders of Sex Development, "New concepts for human disorders of sex development", July 30, 2010.
- M. Birkin, R. Allan, S. Beckhofer, I. Buchan, J. Finch, C. Goble, A. Hudson-Smith, P. Lambert, R. Procter, D. de Roure, R.O. Sinnott, The Elements of a Computational Infrastructure for Social Simulation, to appear in Journal of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, July 2010.
- S. McCafferty, T. Doherty, R.O. Sinnott, J. Watt, Supporting Research into Depression, Self-Harm and Suicide across Scotland, to appear in Journal of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, July 2010.
- R.O. Sinnott, A. Stell, Ian Piper, R. Donald, Developing and Supporting e-Infrastructures for Prediction of Adverse Hypotensive Events in the Brain Trauma Domain, book chapter submitted to Smart Healthcare Applications and Services: Developments and Practices, to be published by IGI Press, July 2010.
- J. Wei, J. Arshad, R.O. Sinnott, A Review of Grid Authentication and Authorization Technologies and Support for Federated Access Control, to appear in ACM Computing Surveys, January 2010.
- A.J. Stell, R.O. Sinnott, J. Jiang, R. Donald, I. Chambers, G. Citerio, P. Enblad, B. Gregson, T. Howells, K. Kiening, P. Nilsson, A. Ragauskas, J. Sahuquillo, I. Piper, Federating Distributed Clinical Data for the Prediction of Adverse Hypotensive Events Journal of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, July 2009, 367:2679-2690.
- D. Reid, R.O. Sinnott, C. Millar, G. Roy, S. Roy, Gordon Stewart, Graeme Stewart, A. Asenov, Enabling Cutting-edge Semiconductor Simulation through Grid Technology, Journal of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, July 2009, 367:2573-2584.
- P. Enblad, I. Piper, R.O. Sinnott, Information Processing, Data Acquisition and Storage, Computers, Engineering and the future (Section VII), Monitoring in Neurocritical Care, eds. Le Roux, Levine, Kofke, 2009.
- Piper, I. Chambers, G. Citerio, P. Enblad, B. Gregson, T. Howells, K. Kiening, J. Mattern, P. Nilsson, A. Ragauskas, J. Sahuquillo, R. Donald, R.O. Sinnott, A. Stell, The Brain Monitoring with Information Technology (BrainIT) collaborative network: EC Feasibility Study Results, Acta Neurochirurgica, (2009) 102 . pp. 217-221.
- L Tan, P. Lambert, K. J. Turner, J. Blum, A. Bowes, D. Bell, V. Gayle, S. B. Jones, M. Maxwell, R.O. Sinnott, G. Warner, Enabling Quantitative Data Analysis through e-Infrastructures, Social Science Computer Review, January 2009.
Funded Reports
- R.O. Sinnott, P. Lord, A. MacDonald, Large-scale data sharing in the life sciences: Data standards, incentives, barriers and funding models (The "Joint Data Standards Study"), prepared for The Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council, The Department of Trade and Industry, The Joint Information Systems Committee for Support for Research, The Medical Research Council, The Natural Environment Research Council and The Wellcome Trust.
- R.O. Sinnott, Grid Security: Middleware, Practices and Outlook, prepared for The Joint Information Systems Committee for Support for Research, November 2005.
- R.O. Sinnott, P. Lord, A. MacDonald, e-Science Digital Repositories: A Framework and Roadmap for European e-Science Data, prepared for European Union as part of the FW7 e-Science Digital Repositories (eSciDR) project.
- R.O. Sinnott, Possibilities and Implications of Grid-enabling Social Science and Humanities Data Collections in the Context of the Council of European Social Science Data Archives (CESSDA), prepared for the UK Data Archives, May 2009 as part of the CESSDA Preparatory Phase Project (CESSDA PPP).
- R.O. Sinnott, Choices, Resources and Sustainability Issues Relating to a Future Council of European Social Science Data Archives (CESSDA) e-Infrastructure, prepared for the UK Data Archives, May 2009 as part of the CESSDA Preparatory Phase Project (CESSDA PPP).
- R.O. Sinnott, Report on the Establishment of Grid-enabled Virtual Safe Settings, prepared for the University of Manchester as part of the e-Infrastructure Project (e-IP).