Julie McCann

Julie McCann CEng FBCS
Born	Julie Ann McCann
Alma mater	Ulster University (BSc, PhD)
Awards	Suffrage Science award (2018) Turing Talk (2022)
Scientific career
Fields	Sensor networks Internet of things Wireless communications Cyber-physical systems Smart dust [1]
Institutions	City, University of London Imperial College London
Thesis	A Fine Grained Database System Performance Model  (1992)
Website	www.imperial.ac.uk/people/j.mccann

Julie Ann McCann is a Northern Irish computer scientist who is a professor at Imperial College London. She is the leader of the Adaptive Emergent Systems Engineering. ^[1] She is a Fellow of the British Computer Society and was awarded the Suffrage Science award in 2018.

Early life and education

As a teenager, McCann became interested in electronic music, ^[2] particularly listening to Kraftwerk and Karlheinz Stockhausen. She lived close to the Armagh Planetarium in Armagh. ^[2] She joined Ulster University for her academic studies, working toward a bachelor's and doctorate in computer science. ^{[2] [3]} She completed her doctorate in 1992. ^{[4] [5]}

Research and career

McCann develops spatial computing and wireless communications, which combine information from their environments with their digital components. Her group investigate convergence and anarchical spatial computing systems. To better understand this, she uses established understanding from systems beyond computing infrastructure (e.g. economics, biology, physics). She combines decentralised algorithms and protocols using low-powered sensing devices. These devices are very small and communicate with one another via radio signals. ^{[2] [6]}

McCann joined Imperial College London in 2002 from City, University of London. She works on Adaptive Emergent Systems Engineering. ^[7] Her interests lie in harnessing the various interactions between the cyber and physical to improve performance, resilience and to make secure. She oversees the Alan Turing Institute Resilient and Robust Infrastructure challenge. ^[7]

McCann leads the National Research Foundation Singapore Eco Cities initiative. McCann also serves as deputy director of the PETRAS National Centre of Excellence. ^[8]

Awards and honours

• 2018 Suffrage Science award ^[9]
• 2022 Turing Talk ^[10]

Selected publications

Her publications ^{[11] [1]} include:

• Huebscher, Markus C.; McCann, Julie A. (13 August 2008). "A survey of autonomic computing—degrees, models, and applications". ACM Computing Surveys. 40 (3): 7:1–7:28. doi:10.1145/1380584.1380585. hdl: 10044/1/5738 . ISSN   0360-0300. S2CID   8914588.
• Sheng, Zhengguo; Yang, Shusen; Yu, Yifan; Vasilakos, Athanasios V.; Mccann, Julie A.; Leung, Kin K. (2013). "A survey on the IETF protocol suite for the internet of things: standards, challenges, and opportunities". IEEE Wireless Communications. 20 (6): 91–98. doi:10.1109/MWC.2013.6704479. ISSN   1558-0687. S2CID   11017278.
• Cai, Yunlong; Qin, Zhijin; Cui, Fangyu; Li, Geoffrey Ye; McCann, Julie A. (2018). "Modulation and Multiple Access for 5G Networks". IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials. 20 (1): 629–646. arXiv: 1702.07673 . doi: 10.1109/COMST.2017.2766698 . ISSN   1553-877X. S2CID   3548474.

References

1. Julie McCann publications indexed by Google Scholar
2. "Prof Julie McCann | Faculty of Engineering | Imperial College London". Imperial College London. Retrieved 19 May 2022.
3. "What are smart cities and how will they work? | BCS". bcs.org. Retrieved 19 May 2022.
4. Julie McCann at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
5. Patel, Nandish V. (1 January 2003). Adaptive Evolutionary Information Systems. Idea Group Inc (IGI). ISBN   978-1-59140-034-9.
6. Andrei, Oana. "The S4 Programme Grant". University of Glasgow. Retrieved 19 May 2022.
7. "Julie McCann". turing.ac.uk. Alan Turing Institute . Retrieved 19 May 2022.
8. "Petras – – Prof. Julie McCann". petras-iot.org. Retrieved 19 May 2022.
9. "Petras – – Professor Julie McCann receives Suffrage Science Award" . Retrieved 19 May 2022.
10. "Professor Julie McCann to give Turing Talk 2022 | BCS". bcs.org. Retrieved 19 May 2022.
11. Julie McCann at DBLP Bibliography Server