John Lloyd

	Position:	Senior Lecturer, Head of School
	E-mail:	john.lloyd ncl.ac.uk
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	Mail:	School of Computing Science, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU United Kingdom
	Office:	Room 824 , Claremont Tower

Brief Biography

John Lloyd joined what was then the Computing Laboratory as a postgraduate student in 1967, after obtaining a degree in Mathematics from the University of Manchester. He obtained a PhD in 1972.

He became a Research Officer in the Laboratory in 1970, and was promoted to a Lectureship in 1973 and to a Senior Lectureship in 1994. He became Head of the Department of Computing Science in 1997, and has been Head of the School of Computing Science since its establishment in 2002. He has held visiting appointments at Northwestern University (1974) and at the University of Delaware (1985).

John's research interests, originally in numerical analysis, have extended to cover aspects of computer graphics and of parallel computation, particularly for numerical and graphics problems. He has taught a wide range of courses, and currently acts as external examiner for degree programmes at Keele and at Brighton. He is a member of the executive committee of the Council of Professors and Heads of Computing, the UK subject body for Computing.

Publications

A list of publications by John Lloyd is available.

Research Groups

John is a member of the [ Data-Intensive Systems Research ] research group(s)