Andrew Rice

I am a University Lecturer in the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory working in the Digital Technology Group and a Fellow of Queens' College.

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Prospective PhD Students

I am interested in recruiting a new PhD student to start in October 2013. We have a unique opportunity to work with an existing 3G pico-/femto-cell platform and to extend it for use as a research test-bed. Candidates should be excellent programmers (the existing platform is written in C++). An interest in mobile communications networks will be vital. Please contact me by email in the first instance.

Research

My research activity covers a range of different areas:

• Understanding the power consumption of smart phones, particularly Android devices (more detail)
• Energy consumption and energy efficiency of computing infrastructure (more detail)
• Energy use in the built environment
• Academic software development processes

These theme are derived from my work with Andy Hopper on the Computing for the Future of the Planet project in which we sought to identify Computer Science research questions in the context of global issues such as climate change, over-population, famine and desertification. A high level summary of the research themes is given in our brochure: [a4 version], [folding version]. Please see the main project pages for more information.

I organise the DTG weekly seminar series. Upcoming talks are advertised on the DTG list at talks.cam.

More information: publications, talks & presentations and posters.

Recent programme committees: MASCOTS 2012, SIGMETRICS 2012, Buildsys 2011, AFRICOMM 2011, MASCOTS 2011 (PC Chair), Sustalnet 2011, PerCom 2011 (PhD programme)

Teaching

Lecturing: Currently I teach Programming in Java for Part 1A of the CS Tripos; Further Java for Part 1B of the CS Tripos; and Programming for Mobiles for the MPhil in Advanced Computer Science.

Supervising: See the Queens' supervision schedule and work set for Part 1B Michaelmas, Part 1B Lent and Part 1B Easter.

Part II Projects: I generally supervise one or two Part II students final year projects. Students with project suggestions should contact me by email towards the end of Part 1B or at the beginning of Part II.

Summer projects: Cambridge undergraduates who are interested in taking part in software development projects over the summer vacation should feel free to contact me to find out more. This entails a 10 week period of (paid) full-time work based in the Computer Laboratory. The number of places on offer will vary depending upon resources. [more information]