I am originally from Dublin, and I did my undergraduate degree at
University College Dublin, graduating
with a joint degree in Computer Science
and Mathematics in
1993. I returned to UCD for the 1994-1995 academic year to do an MSc
by research in Computer Science, supervised by
Allan Ramsay.
After that I spent four years at the University of Warwick doing
research for my PhD. At Warwick I was a member of the
Algorithms and
Computational Complexity Group, working with
Leslie Ann
Goldberg.
Between September 1999 and August 2001 I was a postdoc at the Center
for Basic Research in Computer Science
(BRICS) at the University of
Aarhus in Denmark. Between September 2001 and May 2003 I was a postdoc
with the Algorithms
and Complexity Group of the University of Leeds,
working on randomized algorithms with
Martin Dyer. Since July 2003 I have been a lecturer in
Informatics at Edinburgh.