Congratulations to Adam Barker who has been awarded a prestigious Visiting Researcher position at Google through the Google Visiting Faculty Program.

“The Google Visiting Faculty program aims to identify and support world-class, full-time faculty pursuing research in areas of mutual interest. Each year, through the Google Visiting Faculty Program, over 25 academics visit Google from universities all over the world. They work closely with our research and engineering teams, and have the opportunity to explore projects at industrial scale, work with state-of-the-art technology, and experience Google culture up close.”

Adam will be leaving for Google’s global headquarters in Mountain View and will be working with Dr John Wilkes and Dr Walfredo Cirne on Service Level Objectives (SLOs), with the aim of contributing towards Google’s internal cluster management systems.

Commenting on Adam’s award Professor Ian Sommerville said “Adam has done a great job in building links with industry and in linking his research to practical research challenges in cloud computing. His research work with Google will deepen his understanding of the problems of scale, reveal new research challenges and will inspire his teaching.”

On a related note, Adam currently has two open positions for a Research Assistant and a PhD scholarship (including International fees) in Data Science. Please get in touch directly with Adam if you are interested.