Payam Barnaghi

Payam Barnaghi is an Assistant Professor at the Institute for Communication Systems (ICS) at the University of Surrey. He is a senior member of IEEE and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. He has been involved in organising several international conferences and workshops including being program co-chair of the IEEE UIC 2013, program vice-chair of the IEEE iThings2013, program co-chair of the SSN2013 workshop, co-chair of Sensors and Semantic Streams track at ESWC2013 and ESWC2014. He is principal investigator and coordinator of the EU FP7 CityPulse project on the Internet of Things and smart cities. His research interests include machine learning, Internet of Things, Semantic Web, Web Services, Information Centric Networks and Information Search and Retrieval.