Biography
I am a Lecturer at the School of Computer Science and also a former student, obtaining my Masters in Advanced Computer Science in 2017 and then my PhD in Computer Science in 2023 both here at St Andrews. My research interests lie in distributed systems as a whole, with a particular focus on serverless computing. Serverless is a maturing field of which there are several open and interesting research areas. I am also very interested in data driven research, analysing/gleaning insights from a number of fields using real-world public data.
Teaching
I currently teach:
Semester 1:
CS5032: Critical Systems Engineering
Semester 2:
CS5052 - Data Intensive Systems
I have also supervised several research projects in a range of areas at both Undergraduate and Masters levels.
Selected publications
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Open access
The state of FaaS: an analysis of public Functions-as-a-Service providers
Ekwe-Ekwe, N. N. & Amos, L., 28 Aug 2024, 17th IEEE international conference on cloud computing (IEEE CLOUD 2024). Chang, R. N., Chang, C. K., Yang, J., Atukorala, N., Jin, Z., Sheng, M., Fan, J., Fletcher, K., He, Q., Kosar, T., Sarkar, S., Venkateswaran, S., Wang, S., Liu, X., Seelam, S., Narayanaswami, C. & Zong, Z. (eds.). Los Alamitos: IEEE Computer Society, p. 430-438 10643918. (IEEE international conference on cloud computing (CLOUD)).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution
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Open access
Location, location, location: exploring Amazon EC2 spot instance pricing across geographical regions
Ekwe-Ekwe, N. N. & Barker, A. D., 16 Jul 2018, 2018 18th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing (CCGRID). IEEE Computer Society, p. 370-373 8411048Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution