Paul Townend

My interests include Data Centres, Cloud and Edge Computing, Decision Support, Energy-efficiency, and Dependability. I'm a member of ADS, CORE, and the WASP Graduate School Management group.

Contact

paul.townend@umu.se

+46 90 786 61 38

Works at

Associate professor at Department of Computing Science

Naturvetarhuset, Umeå universitet, NAT.B2.210 Umeå universitet, 901 87 Umeå

I've been active in Computer Science research since 2000. I've authored over 70 internationally peer-reviewed papers and articles, cited over 1500 times. My research spans a wide range of topics within Distributed Systems - including Data Centres, Cloud and Edge Computing, Decision Support, Energy-efficient Computing, and Dependability.

At Umeå, I'm a member of the Autonomous Distributed Systems research group and CORE. I'm also a member of the Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems and Software Program (WASP) Graduate School Management group.

Internationally, I'm a steering committee member of IEEE ISORC, IEEE JCC, and IEEE BigDataService, and co-founder of Edgetic - a UK spin-out company from the University of Leeds looking at efficiency in the data centre sector.

Research groups

Research leaders

Autonomous Distributed Systems Lab

I teach:

Advanced Distributed Systems (5DV205)
Cloud Computing (5DV192)

I also supervise quite a lot of student projects.