About
Alan Dearle is a Professor in the School of Computer Science at the University of St Andrews. His academic background includes a B.Sc. and Ph.D. from the University of St Andrews. He holds roles in the British Computer Society and the Association for Computing Machinery.
His research focuses on distributed systems, operating systems, programming languages, similarity search, and data linkage. Current work includes the Digitising Scotland project, which reconstructs Scottish genealogical pedigrees using digitized vital records, and the development of the Stardust unikernel for Java applications. He collaborates with Richard Connor on similarity search algorithms and leads projects funded by the Economic & Social Research Council and EPSRC.
Alan advises PhD students like Ben Claydon and Tom Dalton. Notable projects include the ADR UK Programme and SFC SMART Tourism. He participates in initiatives like Doors Open @ Computer Science and contributes to open-source tools like the Metric Space Framework.
His work addresses challenges in metric search, synthetic population generation, and efficient operating system design, with applications in heritage digitization and scalable data management.
