Researcher CV

Eamonn. de Leastar received a BSc (Hons) in Computer Science in 1982, and an MSc in Computer Science in 1994, both from University College Cork. He is a co-founder of the Telecommunications Software Systems Group (TSSG), where he is part of the management team and is responsible for technical direction and strategic innovation. He has recently lead two TSSG research projects: Nomad – a programme to devise, implement and trial smart campus wireless infrastructure and services; LogMon- a project to implement innovative extensions for the Eclipse open source IDE; additionally he has acted as technical advisor to Impruve – a project to realise a new ubiquitous computing infrastructure for communications interaction with people, places and devices.

After graduation in 1982, he taught computer science at Dundalk Institute of Technology, where he was responsible for a range of new curricula within this sector. He then moved into industry, gaining significant experience in senior programmer, analyst, quality assurance and project leadership roles. This included periods at Wordstar International, developing some of the first work processors on the then newly established PC standard and at Contel Business Systems porting the Unix operating system to a new range of hardware. In the early 90s, while compiler group team leader at Glockenspiel Ltd, he oversaw the implementation of the first commercial C++ compilers on a range of platforms.

Since 1992 he has worked at Waterford Institute of Technology as a Lecturer in Computer Science, establishing the TSSG with colleagues in 1997. Prior to the establishment of the group his research interests were dominated by real time process control applications, where he developed and led the implementation of a range of control applications with Honeywell Measurex (calibration and head control systems) and Waterford Crystal (tank furnace monitoring). During this period he completed an MSc by research in process control- developing an innovative approach to controlling PLC devices via C++ application framework technology.

Since the establishment of the TSSG, Mr. de Leastar has been a member of the management team, and led a range of research projects including SUSIE, Bandwdth2000, Converge, MDS, RBS, Nomad, Logmon and Impruve (details on www.tssg.org). He has co-authored these proposals, as well a selection of other successful project proposals, including HEA M-Zones, ensuring that the TSSG is one of the most successful groups within the Irish third level sector. He has acted as technical director of SUSIE and Bandwidth programmes and led the RBS programme.

Research project Participation
as Primary Principal Investigator: €800k

as Investigator in collaboration with TSSG & partners: €5.7million

LIST OF RECENT PUBLICATIONS BY SENIOR RESEARCHER (-S).

• Chedgey, C., De Leastar, E., O'Foghlu, M., 2006, A European Open Source Project Information Server, Proceedings of the Future Research Challenges for Software and Services Workshop, Vienna, April 2006
• Foley C., Downes B., de Leastar E, van der Meer S. “Instant Messaging as a Platform for Realising Ubiquitous Computing Environment”, eChallenges Conf. (e-2005), Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2005
• Ó Foghlú, M. and de Leastar, E. "Infrastructure Requirements for Smart Spaces and Managed Zones" eChallenges, 2004 October 2004 (Vienna, Austria) (Awarded best paper).
• Dearle, F., Mc Carthy, M. and de Leastar, E. “Revitalizing Java(TM) Applet Technology As Intelligent MVC Components for the Web Tier” JavaOne Conference 2004 (San Francisco, Calformia).
• Bushan, B., de Leastar, B., Ryan, C. and Leray, E. “Federated Accounting Management System Architecture for Multimedia Service Usage Management”, Proceeding of IFIP/IEEE International Conference on Management of Multimedia Networks and Services, Santa Barbara, California, 2002.
• Ó Foghlú, M., Dempsey, S. and de Leastar, E. "Peer-to-peer Innovations for eBusiness and eWork: A Vision of Emerging Software Service Technologies", in eBusiness and eWork 2002, Brian Stanford Smith, Enrica Chiozza, and Mireille Edin, eds., IOS Press, Amsterdam, 2002.
• Ryan, C., Donnelly, W., de Leastar, W. and Cloney, J. "Value-Based Billing in a 3G IP Services Environment ", in SCI 2002. (Awarded best paper)
• Ryan, C., Brazil, J., de Leastar, E. and Cloney, J. "A Rating Bureau Service for Next Generation IP Services", in IT&T 2002, 2002.
• Brazil, J., Ryan, C., de Leastar, E. and Ó Foghlú, M. “Workbook approach to algorithm design and service accounting in a component orientated environment” IEEE Workshop on IP Operations and Management, IPOM’02 November 2002 (Dallas TX, USA) (Awarded best paper). ode Leastar, E., Dempsey, S. and Crotty, M. “TAO - A Telephony Service Provider Implementation of TAPI Applications”, Proceedings of the IT&T Annual Conference, Athlone, Ireland, September 2001.
• de Leastar, McGibney Flexible Multi-Service Telecommunications Accounting System, Proceedings of INC 2000 International Network Conference, July 2000, Plymouth, UK.