Phil Trinder

Professor Phil Trinder is a Professor of Computing Science at the University of Glasgow's School of Computing Science. He leads the Glasgow Parallelism Group (GPG) and is a member of the Glasgow Systems Section (GLASS) and the Scottish Programming Languages Seminar (SPLS). His research focuses on parallel and distributed programming models, functional programming, and applications in computational algebra.

Trinder holds a DPhil from Oxford University and has over 100 publications. He has led 12 major research projects as Principal Investigator and coordinated EU projects. Collaborations include Ericsson, Maplesoft, Microsoft, and Motorola.

His work emphasizes scalable distributed systems, actor-based platforms, and reliable computation. Notable contributions include the SymGridPar framework for computational algebra and research on Erlang scalability. He also explores IoT architectures and tierless programming languages.

Key projects include improving Erlang's network scalability and developing frameworks for exact combinatorial search (YewPar). He has supervised numerous researchers and contributed to high-performance systems like HPC-GAP.