Director, eResearch
Professor Richard O. Sinnott
Professor Richard O. Sinnott was appointed as the Director, eResearch for the University of Melbourne in July 2010. Professor Sinnott works in the Research portfolio and also hold an adjunct appointment in the Department of Computing and Information Systems, Faculty of Engineering.
Prior to coming to Melbourne, Richard was the Technical Director of the UK National e-Science Centre; Director of e-Science at the University of Glasgow and Deputy Director (Technical) for the Bioinformatics Research Centre also at the University of Glasgow. In these roles Richard was responsible for organising and administrating UK-wide and local Glasgow University activities associated with e-Science and eResearch more generally. He has been integrally involved in the development and successful delivery of a broad portfolio of e-Research projects and associated research-oriented e-Infrastructures. These have covered (amongst other things), the post-genomic clinical sciences from genetic causes of hypertension to clinical platforms for study of rare diseases; the social sciences and supporting public health research platforms; the arts and humanities and development of tailored platforms for language and literature researchers, through to development of research infrastructures for next-generation nanoCMOS electronics systems.
Prior to going to Glasgow, Richard ran his own consultancy company in the real-time telecommunications domain based in Berlin, Germany, building on the work he undertook whilst he was employed as a senior research scientist at GMD Fokus in Berlin. He holds a PhD from the University of Stirling, Scotland where his research was based on the architectural design of open distributed processing systems (he edited numerous international standards in this area); an MSc in Software Engineering from Stirling, and a BSc Hons in Theoretical Physics from the University of East Anglia in Norwich.
Richard has published extensively across a range of computing science research areas: from theoretical computing science; real-time systems; distributed systems; with more recent focus being based around provisioning of platforms for research scientists with specific focus on those domains requiring finer-grained security.
He is married with three children and is an avid sports person (both watching and playing).
Recent Publications
A list can be found at the University of Melbourne repository by searching for 'Sinnott'.
Christopher Bayliss, Richard O. Sinnott, Wei Jie, Junaid Arshad, 'The Design, Development and Application of a Proxy Credential Auditing Infrastructure for Collaborative Research', Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, 1, Volume 78, E-Technologies: Transformation in a Connected World, Part 6, MCETECH, 2011, 211-226.
Richard O. Sinnott, Anthony J. Stell, Towards a Virtual Research Environment for International Adrenal Cancer Research, International Conference on Computational Science, ICCS 2011.
J. Watt, R.O. Sinnott, G. Inman, D.W. Chadwick, Federated Authentication and Authorisation in the Social Science Domain, Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security, Vienna, Austria. August 2011.
J. Watt, R.O. Sinnott, Supporting Federated Multi-Authority Security Models, Proceedings of the 11th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing, Newport Beach, CA, USA. May 2011.
M.S. Sarwar, R.O. Sinnott, T. Doherty, J. Watt, Towards a Virtual Research Environment for Language and Literature Researchers, submitted to Journal of Future Generation Computer Systems, Elsevier, March 2011.
J. Wei, J. Arshad, R.O. Sinnott, A Review of Grid Authentication and Authorization Technologies and Support for Federated Access Control, Journal ACM Computing Surveys, Volume 43 Issue 2, January 2011. DOI 10.1145/1883612.1883619
A.J. Stell, R.O. Sinnott, R. Donald, I. Chambers, G. Citerio, P. Enblad, B. Gregson, T. Howells, K. Kiening, P. Nilsson, A. Ragauskas, J. Sahuquillo and I. Piper, A Distributed Clinical Data Platform for Physiological Studies in the Brain Trauma Domain, 2010 IEEE Sixth International Conference on e-Science, Brisbane, Australia, December 2010, ISBN 978-0-7695-4290-4, pp 65-72.
M.S. Sarwar, R.O. Sinnott, Towards a Virtual Research Environment for Language and Literature Researchers, 2010 IEEE Sixth International Conference on e-Science, Brisbane, Australia, December 2010, ISBN 978-0-7695-4290-4, pp 33-40.
R. Donald, T. Howells, I. Piper, I. Chambers, G. Citerio, P. Enblad, B. Gregson, K. Kiening, J. Mattern, P. Nilsson, A. Ragauskas, J. Sahuquillo, R.O. Sinnott, A. Stell, Early Warning of EUSIG Defined Hypotensive Events Using a Bayesian Artificial Neural Network, 14th International Conference on Intercranial Pressure and Brain Monitoring, Tubingen, Germany, September 2010.
R. Donald, T. Howells, I. Piper, I. Chambers, G. Citerio, P. Enblad, B. Gregson, K. Kiening, J. Mattern, P. Nilsson, A. Ragauskas, J. Sahuquillo, R.O. Sinnott, A. Stell, Trigger characteristics of EUSIG defined hypotensive events, 14th International Conference on Intracranial Pressure and Brain Monitoring, Tubingen, Germany, 12-16 September 2010.
R.O. Sinnott, S. Hussain, Security-oriented Workflows for the Social Sciences, 4th International Conference on Network and System Security, Melbourne, Australia, 1-3 September 2010.
J.A. Walker, R.O. Sinnott, J.A. Hilder, G. Stewart and A.M. Tyrrell, Optimizing electronic standard cell libraries for variability tolerance through the nano-CMOS grid, Journal of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, 28 August 2010, (DOI:10.1098/rsta.2010.0150).
M. Birkin, R. Allan, S. Bechhofer, I. Buchan, J. Finch, C. Goble, A. Hudson-Smith, P. Lambert, R. Procter, D. de Roure, R.O. Sinnott, Elements of a Computational Infrastructure for Social Simulation, Journal of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, 28 August 2010, (DOI:10.1098/rsta.2010.0150).
S. McCafferty, T. Doherty, R.O. Sinnott, J. Watt, e-Infrastructures supporting Research into Depression, Self-Harm and Suicide, Journal of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, 28 August 2010, (DOI:10.1098/rsta.2010.0150).
R. Donald, T. Howells, I. Piper, I. Chambers, G. Citerio, P. Enblad, B. Gregson, K. Kiening, J. Mattern, P. Nilsson, A. Ragauskas, J. Sahuquillo, R.O. Sinnott, A. Stell, Trigger Characteristics of EUSIG Defined Hypotensive Events, Acta Neurochirurgica, 2010.
I. 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 and Future Directions, Acta Neurochirurgica: Volume 152, Issue 11 (2010), page 1859, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00701-010-0719-1.
R.O. Sinnott, A. Stell, J. Jiang, J.P. Watt, Development and Support of Platforms for Research into Rare Diseases, CCGrid HealthGrid workshop, Melbourne, Australia, May 2010.
A.J. Stell, R.O. Sinnott, J. Jiang. Enabling Secure, Distributed Collaborations for Adrenal Tumor Research, HealthGrid conference, Paris, France, June 2010.
Sinnott, R.O. et al. (2010) E-infrastructure support for nanoCMOS device and circuit simulations. In: Hamza, M.H. (ed.) Proceedings of the Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing and Networks, Innsbruck, Austria, 16-18th February 2010. ACTA Press, Anaheim, USA. ISBN 9780889868342 Item not available online.
Davenhall, C. et al. (2009) Data management of nanometre scale CMOS device simulations. In: 5th International Digital Curation Conference, 2-4 Dec 2009, London, UK.
Muhammad, J and Sinnott, R.O. (2009) Policy-driven patch management for distributed environments. In: Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Network and System Security, Gold Coast, Australia, 19-21 October 2009. IEEE Computer Society, Los Alamitos, USA, pp. 158-163. ISBN 9781424450879
Sinnott, R.O. et al. (2009) Multi-level simulations to support nanoCMOS electronics research. In: 2009 ASME Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference DETC2009, August 30-September 2, 2009, San Diego, California, USA. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, New York, USA. ISBN 9780791838563 Item not available online.
Stell, A.J. et al. (2009) Federating distributed clinical data for the prediction of adverse hypotensive events. Royal Society of London Philosophical Transactions A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 367 (1898). pp. 2679-2690. ISSN 1364-503X Item availablity restricted.
Reid, D. et al. (2009) Enabling cutting-edge semiconductor simulation through grid technology. Royal Society of London Philosophical Transactions A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 367 (1897). pp. 2573-2584. ISSN 1364-503X Item availablity restricted.
Sinnott, R.O., Doherty, T., Gray, N. and Lusted, J. (2009) Semantic security: specification and enforcement of semantic policies for security-driven collaborations. Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, 147 . pp. 201-211. ISSN 0926-9630
Tan, K.L.L. et al. (2009) Enabling quantitative data analysis through e-infrastructures. Social Science Computer Review . ISSN 0894-4393 (In Press) Item availablity restricted.
Jiang, J., Sinnott, R.O., Stell, A., Watt, J. and Ahmed, F. (2009) Towards a virtual research environment for paediatric endocrinology across Europe. In: Cappello, F. and Wang, C.L. and Buyya, R. (eds.) 9th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid CCGrid 2009, Shanghai, China, May 18-21, 2009. IEEE Computer Society, Los Alamitos, USA, pp. 496-501. ISBN 9781424439355
Piper, I. et al. (2009) The brain monitoring with information technology (BrainIT) collaborative network: EC feasibility study results. Acta Neurochirurgica, 102 . pp. 217-221. ISSN 0065-1419
Sinnott, R.O. (2009) Grid security. In: Wang, L. and Jie, W. and Chen, J. (eds.) Grid Computing: Infrastructure, Service, and Applications. CRC Press, Boca Raton, USA, pp. 307-334. ISBN 9781420067668 Item not available online.
Sinnott, R.O., Ajayi, O. and Stell, A.J. (2009) Data privacy by design: digital infrastructures for clinical collaborations. In: Majkic, Z. and Banerjee, R. and Zegzhda, D.P. and Wang, G. (eds.) Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Security and Privacy (ISP-09) Orlando, Florida, USA, July 13-16, 2009. International Society for Research in Science and Technology , Worthington, OH, USA. ISBN 9781606510124
Sinnott, R.O., Doherty, T., Jiang, J., McCafferty, S., Stell, A. and Watt, J. (2009) Security-oriented portals for the life sciences. In: First International Workshop on Portals for Life Sciences, 14-15 Sept 2009, Edinburgh, UK. Item not available online.
Sinnott, R.O. and Piper, I. (2009) E-infrastructures fostering multi-centre collaborative research into the intensive care management of patients with brain injury. In: Cannataro, M. (ed.) Handbook of Research on Computational Grid Technologies for Life Sciences, Biomedicine and Healthcare. IGI Global, Hershey, PA, pp. 494-512. ISBN 9781605663746
Stell, A.J., Sinnott, R.O., Ajayi, O. and Jipu, J. (2009) Designing privacy for scalable electronic healthcare linkage. In: International Conference on Computational Science and Engineering. CSE '09. Vancouver, Canada; 29-31 Aug. 2009. IEEE Computer Society, Los Alamitos, USA, pp. 330-336. ISBN 9781424453344
Stell, A.J., Sinnott, R.O. and Jiang, J. (2009) A clinical grid infrastructure supporting adverse hypotensive event prediction. In: Cappello, F. and Wang, C.L. and Buyya, R. (eds.) 9th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid CCGrid 2009, Shanghai, China, May 18-21, 2009. IEEE Computer Society, Los Alamitos, USA, pp. 508-513. ISBN 9781424439355
Watt, J.P., Sinnott, R.O., Jiang, J., Doherty, T., Higgins, C. and Koutroumpas, M. (2009) Tool support for security-oriented virtual research collaborations. In: Liao, X. (ed.) ISPA 2009 : 2009 IEEE International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing with Applications: Proceedings, 9-12 August 2009, Chengdu, Sichuan, China. IEEE Computer Society, Los Alamitos, USA, pp. 419-424. ISBN 9780769537474
Bayliss, C., Breslin, C., Clark, R., Johnson, B., Mackay, S. and Sinnott, R.O. (2008) The drug discovery portal: secure matchmaking and collaboration for biologists and chemists. In: UK e-Science All Hands Meeting, 8-11 Sept 2008, Edinburgh, UK. Item not available online.
Sinnott, R.O. et al. (2008) Scalable, security-oriented solutions for nanoCMOS electronics. In: UK e-Science All Hands Meeting , 8-11 Sept 2008, Edinburgh, UK.
Sinnott, R.O. et al. (2008) Supporting security-oriented, inter-disciplinary research: crossing the social, clinical and geospatial domains. In: UK e-Science All Hands Meeting, 8-11 Sept 2008, Edinburgh, UK.