Curriculum Vitae

Name:George R. S. Weir
Address:Department of Computer & Information Sciences, University of Strathclyde, Richmond Street, Glasgow G1 1XH, UK
Email:george.weir[at sign]cis.strath.ac.uk
Homepage:http://www.cis.strath.ac.uk/people/biography/gw/
 
Present position:Lecturer
Academic qualifications:MA with Honours (Mental Philosophy), University of Glasgow;
PhD (Philosophy), University of Edinburgh;
PG Diploma in Business Information Technology Systems, University of Strathclyde.
Summary:             Published extensively in the areas of HCI, Security, e-learning, readability and corpus linguistics (authoring or co-authoring more than 20 publications since 2007); developed several software tools for use in readability, textual analysis and language learning; collaborated with researchers in the UK, Europe and in Japan where named as an associate on two grants awarded by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.

In 2005, awarded a Sir Winston Churchill Trust Travel Fellowship - spent 6 weeks establishing research links with linguists, computer scientists and educators in Japan;

Established the International Conference on ICT in the Analysis, Teaching and Learning of Languages (ICTATLL), which he has chaired annually since that date.

Memberships:        Pan-Pacific Association of Applied Linguistics; the BCS Forensics and Cybercrime Specialist Group; the Association of Computing Machinery; the British Computer Society; the Higher Education Academy; IEEE; IEEE Professional Communications Society; IEEE Committee on Systems, Man and Cybernetics; Fellow of the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust; Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
Research awards:       Comparing the effectiveness of on-line teaching, British Council (Portugal), 2004;
A Methodology for Hybrid Teaching Materials, University of Strathclyde, R&D Fund, 2003;
A Comparison of Teaching Programming, British Council (Portugal), 2003;
Adding utility to community Web sites, University of Strathclyde and University of Glasgow, Synergy Fund, 2003;
Scottish Teachers On-line Resource Modules (STORM), Scottish Executive Education Department, 2001-02;
Robust Human Machine Interaction (RoHMI), CEC Human Capital and Mobility, 1994-95;
Second Language Support, British Council (Greece), 1994.
In 2010, he was awarded funding by the Institute for Advanced Studies to support a programme of events on Cybercrime.
Teaching and Supervision:    Taught a variety of courses at undergraduate and postgraduate levels, including: Human-Computer Interaction, Computer programming, Multimedia, Computer Security, Enterprise Networking, Digital Information Fundamentals, and Web Applications Engineering.

Supervised research in areas that include E-learning, Human-Computer Interaction, Complex Dynamic Systems, Computer Security, Digital Forensics and Textual Analysis.

Commercial experience:      Founding director of two Internet-related companies; developed and delivered training materials on Internet technologies and Security for a variety of commercial clients; provides consultancy services on aspects of digital forensics.
Recent publications:  
  1. M. Morran and G. R. S. Weir. ‘An Approach to Textual Steganography. In ICGS3 2010 (Communications in Computer and Information Science 92). Edited by S. Tenreiro de Magalhaes, H. Jahankhani, and A. G. Hessami. Berlin Heidelberg. Springer-Verlag. 2010. pp. 48–54.
  2. G. R. S. Weir and M. Livitsanou. ‘Playing textual analysis as music.’ Proceedings of ICTATLL 2010, Kyoto, Japan. ICTATLL. September 2010.
  3. G. R. S. Weir and T. Ozasa. ‘Learning from analysis of Japanese EFL texts’ Educational Perspectives, Honolulu, Hawai'i. 2010.
  4. I. Moir and G. R. S. Weir. ‘Contact centres and identity theft’. Int. Jnl. of Electronic Security and Digital Forensics. 2 (1). 2009. pp. 92-100.
  5. G. R. S. Weir. ‘Corpus Profiling with the Posit Tools.’ Proceedings of the 5th Corpus Linguistics Conference (CL2009). University of Liverpool. July 2009.
  6. M. O’Brien and G. R. S. Weir. ‘Understanding digital certificates’. Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Cybercrime Forensics Education and Training. Canterbury, UK. September 2008.
  7. S. Burns and G. R. S. Weir. ‘Varieties of smartcard fraud.’ Int. Jnl. of Electronic Security and Digital Forensics. 1 (4). 2008. pp. 374-386.
  8. G. R. S. Weir and N. K. Anagnostou. ‘Collocation frequency as a readability factor’, Proceedings of the 13th Conference of Pan-Pacific Association of Applied Linguistics. Pan-Pacific Association of Applied Linguistics. August 2008.
For a comprehensive list of publications, see my publications page.   A PDF version of my CV is available here.

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