Prof Norman Paton

Biography

Norman Paton has been a Professor of Computer Science at Manchester University since 2000; he has also worked as a lecturer at Heriot-Watt University and a Research Assistant at Aberdeen University. In Computer Science at Manchester he has held a variety of roles, including Head of School, Director of Teaching Strategy, Director of Postgraduate Taught Programmes and Director of the Research School. At present, he is part-time at the university, while also working with a spin-out company, The Data Value Factory, to commercialise research results on data preparation.

In relation to community service, he is a member of the 2020/21 PVLDB Review Board, and is a member of the Editorial Board of Distributed and Parallel Databases.  He has held PC and Track Chair roles at several international conferences, including CIKM, EDBT, ICDE and VLDB, and has been President of the Extending Database Technology Association (EDBT).

Qualifications

BSc Honours (1) Computing Science, University of Aberdeen, 1986

PhD Computing Science, University of Aberdeen, 1989

Memberships of committees and professional bodies

Member of Academia Europaea.