Work Package 1 (L_WP1)Leader
David Parish gained a First Class Honours Degree in Physics with Electronics (1979) and a PhD in Electronic Engineering (1983) from Liverpool University. He was a Scientific Office at the UKAEA Culham Laboratory (1979-80); a Demonstrator at the University of Liverpool (1982-3) and joined Loughborough University as a Lecturer in 1983. He became Professor of Communication Networks in 2002 and Dean of the School of Electronic, Electrical and Systems Engineering in 2012.
David Parish leads the High Speed Networks Group in the School of Electronic, Electrical and Systems Engineering. He conducts research in network measurement and abuse detection and has lead projects which have installed purpose designed measurement and cyber attack detection equipment into three operational networks run by commercial (BT and NTL/VirginMedia) or service organisations (JANET UK). His current research interest include the use of cross layer techniques for internet attack detection and performance monitoring approaches for cloud networks. He has published over 180 research papers and has held over £2.5M of research project funding. He is a member of the EPSRC College of Peers and has recently been a member of the ICT SAT. He is currently Treasurer and Deputy Chair of UKRI IEEE COMSOC Chapter.
Email: d.j.parish@lboro.ac.uk
