I joined UCC as a full professor of computer science in 1999. I served as Head of School for 3 years from 2019-2021, having previously been Head of Department for 8 years during 2015-2018 and 2000-2004. Prior to moving to Cork in 1999, I was at AT&T Labs in Florham Park (NJ, USA) and at Bell Labs in Murray Hill (NJ, USA). At Cork I currently act as Director of UCC's Center for Future Networks, Systems and Cybersecurity. I am also currently the director of nasc research, a group of over 50 people with funding from a broad range of agencies ane companies. I am a Taighde Eireann (Research Ireland) Principal Investigator and have published over 200 peer-reviewed papers, serving on several ACM/IEEE journal editorial boards. I hold a Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory and am a member of Christ's College. My Ph.D. supervisor was the esteemed Prof. Roger Needham; consequently I can trace my academic (doctoral) heritage back to computing pioneer Prof. Maurice Wilkes and going back further to physics Nobel laureates Ernest Rutherford and JJ Thomson! In 2005 I was elected as a Fellow of the British Computer Society, and in 2023 as a Fellow of the Irish Academy of Engineering. With members of my research group and colleagues I am active in technology transfer activities, mainly through collaboration with Irish companies and licencing of research outputs. I have experience in performing technical due diligence and am available to advise on patent infringement and as an expert witness in the areas of telecoms, mobile and wireless networks, and the Internet of Things (IoT). I have specialist expertise on the topic of adaptive video streaming, including its history and development. I have 9 patents granted. I have been a visiting professor at several institutions, including Oxford, Cambridge, and the University of New South Wales.