Bill is a Professor at Edinburgh Napier University, and a Fellow of the BCS and the IET. He currently leads the Centre for Distributed Computing, Networks, and Security, and works in the areas of security, next generation user interfaces, Web-based infrastructures, e-Crime, intrusion detection systems, digital forensics, e-Health, mobile computing, agent-based systems, and simulation. Bill has one of the most extensive academic sites in the World, and is involved in many areas of novel research and teaching in computing. He has published over 27 academic books, and over 150 academic publications, along with several awards for excellence in knowledge transfer, and for teaching, such as winning at the I (heart) my Tutor Awards (Student voted), Edinburgh Napier University, 2011, and two recent innovation and enterprise awards for an e-Health Platform with the IET and the BCS.
