Mark Roantree B.Sc. M.Sc. Ph.D.

 

Dr. Mark Roantree is a Senior Lecturer with 25 years experience in both an academic and industrial capacity. For 10 years, he worked industry for Fujitsu and Symantec (both in Dublin), Royal Life (Melbourne) and Taxsoft (London) in various roles as software developer, software architect and project management.

 

Since September 1994, Mark has been a researcher  at Dublin City University, and has published in almost 60 refereed journals and conferences. He is currently leader of the Interoperable Systems Group and has reviewed papers for numerous journals and international conferences including the International Journal of Cooperative Information Systems, Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS), International Journal on Digital Libraries, SIGMOD Record and the International Conferences on Extending Database Technologies (EDBT), and the largest Semantic Web Conference (ISWC), among many others.

 

 

. Grant Support History

Project

Description

Amount

Funding Agency

Dates

XSPEED

Hardware XML Acceleration

€317,000

EI (IR)

Oct 09 – Sep 11

pSensor

pHealth Sensor Network

€349,438

EI (CFTD)

Apr 09 – Mar 2012

CLARITY

Metadata Service

€100,000

SFI (collaborator)

Oct 2008 – Sep 2012

FASTX

XML Database Optimisation

€264,640

EI (CFTD)

Oct 2007 - Sep 2010

RSS SENSE

Sensor Stream Merging

€75,302

EI (PoC)

Oct 2007 – Mar2009

ERCIM

Mobility for FP7 Project Proposals

€50,000

IRCSET

July 2007 – Jun 2009

XPeer

PICS Mobiloity Scheme

€16,600

IRCSET/CNRS

Apr 2006 – Apr2009

FAST

XML Optimisation (Proof of Concept)

€50,474

EI (PoC)

Oct 2005 - Mar 2007

X-LIM

XQuery for Large Scale Integration

€89,440

IRCSET (Basic Research)

Oct 2003 - Sep 2005

EGTV

Efficient Video Transactions

€94,100

EI (Research Innovation)

Oct 2001 - Sep 2003

IOMPAR

Object Interchange

€92,710

EI (Strategic)

Oct 2000 - Sep 2002

OASIS

Federated Healthcare System

€76,200

EI (Strategic)

Oct 1998 – Sep 2000

Various

Travel, Collaboration & DCU Internal (1998-)

€36,000

 

 

TOTAL

 

€1,611,904

 

 

 

 

Since co-founding the Interoperable Systems Group in 1998, Mark has obtained numerous research grants, including two Enterprise Ireland strategic research grants in 1998 and 2000, a Research Innovation Grant in 2001; a Basic Research Grant (funded by IRCSET) in 2003, 2  E.I. Proof of Concept grant in 2005 & 2007 and 2 E.I. CFTD in 2007 & 2009. The ISG has 14 research staff: 2 members of faculty, 1 Post-Doc, 9 PhD students and 2 research assistants.

 

 

 

Administration (within DCU)

Over the last 10 years I have served on various committees:

  • School Research Committee (as chair)
  • University’s Research Advisory Panel
  • Faculty Research Board
  • Faculty Education Board
  • School Research Convenor (member of University Research Advisory Panel)
  • Chair of M.Sc. in Information Technology programme
  • Academic Council
  • School Executive and Budgetary Committee

 

 

Administration (at EU level)

I am currently on the Executive Committee of ERCIM where I am vice-chair of the Executive Committee and chair of the Projects Task Group. ERCIM is the European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics - aims to foster collaborative work within the European research community and to increase co-operation with European industry. Leading research institutes from seventeen European countries are members of ERCIM.

My role at this level is two-fold. Firstly, I am responsible for encouraging and assisting the involvement of Irish researchers (from the 7 universities) in international Working Groups and EU funding proposals. Secondly (and at the European level), I am responsible for coordinating the activities of the 20 Working Groups, promoting the scientific programme within the groups, and developing the ERCIM strategy for generating proposals and winning funding.

 

 

 

Publications

A list of Mark’s publications since 2000 can be found on the ISG website.