Ian MacGillivray

Résumé

Education

Employment

09/2009 - Present — Thomson Reuters (London, UK; New York, USA)

Constantly adapting to new challenges from a base of technical skill and creativity.

• As an Information Security Consultant then Network Security Architect in my first year, dealt with all aspects of security from product architecture and network architecture through to penetration testing and estate management.
• Managed three products/projects through the entire security lifecycle.
• Built an automation tool that cut engineer-hours spent on deployment of any firewall from 8 hours to 2 hours.
• As a Research Scientist & Software Engineer I work on novel research challenges in order to deliver a compelling system using millions of unstructured documents, and any available structured information, to understand and infer the complex relationships between a number of diverse entities.
• Designed and implemented software to build and represent a graph with half a million vertices and tens of millions of edges, and sub-second response times for queries.
• Developed an algorithm to compute similarity between entities based on entity, document and graph attributes.
• Initiated and developed business and product ideas, and enhancements to content sets.
• Conducted data mining, machine learning and text processing research.
• Rapidly (often same-day) developed intelligent systems to meet editorial needs, leading to breaking news stories.

05/2009 - 09/2009 — Aston University (Birmingham, UK)

As a Postgraduate Researcher, conducted novel research around probability theory and artificial intelligence, leading to a full paper on trust & reputation published at AAMAS 2010. AAMAS is the premier conference and journal for agent-based research.

07/2007 - 07/2008 — Microsoft (Reading, UK)

As a Developer Evangelist, became expert in Microsoft bleeding edge and just-released technologies; specialising in LINQ, C# 3.0 and Silverlight. Created demonstration content, presented the technologies to a range of audiences (from technical through to board-level) and worked with partner companies to implement the technologies in live applications.

Publications & Patents

Exploring the Corporate Ecosystem with a Semi-Supervised Graph, Malik, H.H., MacGillivray, I., Olof-Ors, M., Sun, S., and Saroha, S. — Proceedings of the 20th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2011), Glasgow, UK.

System and Method for Finding Similar Entities, Malik, H.H., MacGillivray, I. and Olof-Ors, M. — US Patent Application.

A Probabilistic Model for Trust and Reputation, George Vogiatzis, Ian MacGillivray, Maria Chli — Proc. of 9th Int. Conf. on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2010), May, 10-14, 2010, Toronto, Canada, pp. 225-232.

Various (including Technology Tuesdays), Metro Newspapers, 2006-2008. Circulation of over a million readers.

About

I have ideas, and see them through into reality. I set up the Computing Society at my University, now five years old and with triple figure membership. I started a company at age 16 and won national awards for doing so. I want to work with interesting people and do novel work that's truly original, and make a tangible difference at the same time.

I love playing jazz, capoeira, scuba diving, windsurfing; any adventures I can find. I'm constantly looking for new challenges, places to explore and things to learn.

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