Nick Race

Professor of Networked Systems at Lancaster University

Speaker

Nicholas Race is Professor of Networked Systems at Lancaster University and Associate Dean for Research in the Faculty of Science and Technology. Nick is also the Director of the Cyber Security Research Centre (CSRC), an Academic Centre of Excellence in Cyber Security Research (ACE-CSR) recognised by Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) and the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) since 2012. Nick's research focuses on developing future networking services built upon Software Defined Networks (SDN) and Network Functions Virtualisation (NFV) for a range of new networking services, with a particular emphasis on the benefits to security, monitoring and media distribution.

Nick is currently the lead at Lancaster of the EPSRC Prosperity Partnership “Future Personalised Object-Based Media Experiences Delivered at Scale Anywhere” (AI4ME) with the BBC, which is building an intelligent network compute platform enabling the efficient utilisation of network compute and delivery resources at scale.

Previously Nick was the principal investigator of the £5m EPSRC Prosperity Partnership “Next-Generation Converged Digital Infrastructure” (NG-CDI) with BT, developing a future network that is “autonomic”, with the capability to react and reconfigure infrastructure accordingly with minimal human intervention, as well as the lead at Lancaster on the £12m Department for Science, Innovation & Technology (DSIT) project “Towards Ubiquitous 3D Open Resilient Network” (TUDOR), researching and develop technologies that could be used in a more open, flexible, secure and scalable future mobile network beyond 5G and 6G.