MONET Project Staff
 

Project Administration

Iain Russell

Janet Thomas

Project Directors

Prof Chris Price

Prof Mark Lee

Dr Neal Snooke


Project Co-ordination

Iain Russell
Project Co-ordinator

Iain's role encompassed overseeing the budgets and financial reports, compiling, producing and disseminating publications, Newsletters and Network Reports. He and Janet provided a central contact point for the Monet Network and any enquiries from Members or the public.

Iain did his Masters degree at UWA and has a scientific and legal background. His interests include canoeing, Taekwon Do and photography.

Janet Thomas
Project Administrator

Email: jnt@aber.ac.uk Telephone Number: +44 (0) 1970 628521

Janet's role covers all aspects of office management. She also provides secretarial support for the Project, maintaining and updating the Members Database, the MONET Webpage and the MONET Information Resources, as well as assisting Iain and the Directors with Project objectives and organising travel for any Members and Co-ordinating Node staff.

Janet's interests include international cuisine, walking, singing and handicrafts.

Project Directors

Prof Chris Price
Network Director

Email: cjp@aber.ac.uk Telephone Number: +44 (0) 1970 622428

Deputy Director of the Centre for Intelligent Systems within the Department of Computer Science UWA and presently shares MONET responsibilities with Mark Lee and Neal Snooke as a Deputy Director. His main research interests lie in the application of model-based reasoning and case-based reasoning to engineering problems. He teaches courses in Artificial Intelligence and in Human Computer Interface Design. Before returning to pursue research in Aberystwyth, Dr Price spent nine years working in the software industry in the UK and Italy. An important part of his time in the software industry was spent constructing software tools for building expert systems. He also worked on many expert systems applications, and still provides consultancy to several major companies,
such as EDS-Scicon, ICL and British Steel.

Prof Mark Lee
Network Director

Email: mhl@aber.ac.uk Telephone Number: +44 (0) 1970 622420

Professor Lee is currently Professor of Intelligent Systems in the Department of Computer Science, at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. He is also Director of the Centre for Intelligent Systems and a Director of the European Network: MONET.

Professor Lee is a diirector of the Centre for Intelligent Systems within the Department of Computer Science UWA, Head of Research and a director of MONET. He has spent sabbaticals at the University of Massachusetts, USA and the University of Auckland, New Zealand. He is a European and Chartered Engineer and a Fellow of the IEE. Prof. Lee is also a member of many editorial and advisory boards and has published many technical papers and several books on robotics.

Dr Neal Snooke
Network Director

Email: nns@aber.ac.uk Telephone Number: +44 (0) 1970 621782

Neal Snooke received an Honours degree in Microelectronics and Computing in 1990 and a PhD in Wavelet based image compression in 1994, both from The University of Wales, Aberystwyth. While working as a research associate in the model based systems group he was involved in the development of the AutoSteve automotive electrical FMEA tool in addition to acting as research director of a successful spin-off company. He is currently a Lecturer at the Department of Computer Science at Aberystwyth University specializing in network technologies and telemetics. His research interests include model based and qualitative reasoning with application to automated design analysis tools for electrical, electronic, network-based, and embedded systems.

 

 

 


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