Ian Welch

Dr Ian Welch

Senior Lecturer
School of Engineering and Computer Science
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Availability

You can check out my calendar.

Students can book an appointment with me during my office hours.

Research Interests

I am interested in improving the resilience of personal computers against viruses, giving consumers the ability to verify their trust in e-commerce services and how to preserve digital information over the long term.

I am involved with the Network Engineering Research Group (NERG) although I also do work with colleagues from the ELVIS Software Research Group.

Publications

For a list of my recent publications, please see the Publications Database.

Biography

I studied commercial law and accountancy at Victoria University of Wellington before working for Andersen Consulting on the redesign of the Inland Revenue tax system. Subsequently I obtained a Masters and PhD from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. While at Newcastle I was involved in three EU projects:

• Design for Validation;
• Dependable Systems of Systems; and,
• Malicious- and Fault- Tolerant Internet Applications.

My PhD is in the area of software engineering and application-level security.

I have been working at Victoria University of Wellington since 2003.

Teaching

My teaching interests include security, operating systems, data communications, distributed computing and ethical issues related to computing.

In addition, having grown up in the Kapiti/Mana area, I have taken great pleasure in being able to contribute back to my community by delivering adult education activities in the Porirua area.