Colin Perkins is a Professor in the
School of Computing
Science at the University of Glasgow.
His research relates to the development of Internet technologies and
standards, with a focus on the design of transport protocols for real-time
and interactive multimedia, on measuring and understanding the behaviour
of the Internet, and on improving the way Internet protocols are designed,
implemented, specified, and standardised.
He chaired the Internet Research Task Force
(IRTF) and served as an ex-officio member of the
Internet Architecture Board from 2019-2025, developing connections between
the networking research community and the Internet standards development and
governance communities.
He is also a long-time participant in the
Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), where he develops technical
standards that describe the operation of the Internet, and where he played a
key role in designing globally deployed multimedia transport and signalling
protocol standards that underpin modern Internet video platforms.
He is a former co-chair of the IETF's
Real-time Media Congestion
Avoidance Techniques,
Audio/Video Transport,
and
Multiparty Multimedia
Session Control working groups, and serves on the
Transport Area Review
Team.
Prior to joining the University of Glasgow, he 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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