Colin Perkins is a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in the
School of Computing Science
at the University of Glasgow and the current
chair of the Internet Research Task Force.
His research interests are on network transport protocols, with a particular
focus on transport protocols for real-time and interactive multimedia for
the Internet, and on improving the way we design, implement, specify, and
standardise network protocols.
He's an active participant in the Internet
Engineering Task Force (IETF), where he helps develop the technical
standards that describe the operation of the Internet, and where he played a
key role in developing globally deployed multimedia transport and signalling
protocol standards that underpin modern video conferencing platforms.
He previously co-chaired the IETF
Real-time Media Congestion Avoidance Techniques,
Audio/Video Transport, and
Multiparty Multimedia Session Control
working groups.
Prior to joining the University of Glasgow, Colin was a Research Assistant
Professor at the University of Southern California from 2000-2003, and
before that a Research Fellow at University College London from 1996-2000.
He received his BEng in Electronic Engineering in 1992, and his PhD in 1996,
both from the Department of Electronics at the
University of York.
He's a fellow of the Higher Education Academy,
a senior member of the IEEE, and a member of
the ACM and IET.
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