Professor Michael Boniface is Technical Director of the IT Innovation Centre. He joined IT Innovation in 2000 after several years at Nortel Networks developing infrastructure to support telecommunications interoperability. His roles at IT Innovation include technical strategy of RTD across IT Innovation's project portfolio, technical leadership, and business development. He has over 16 years' experience of RTD into innovative distributed systems for science and industry using technologies such as new media, secure service-oriented architectures, semantic web, cloud computing and network infrastructures. He coordinated the EXPERIMEDIA project providing leadership for a facility used to conduct 30 ecosystem trails with end users bringing together sensors, gaming, social networking and media technologies including user-centric provenance frameworks for tracking causation in highly distributed systems. He's now working on deep user interaction modelling and observation techniques to monitor and assess children learning social skills at school using digital games. He leads trust and security architecture for a cloud and network infrastructure test facility (FED4FIRE) whilst exploring business modelling and sustainability activities including identification and analysis of novel data value chains deriving from new information sources such as autonomous vehicles . He leads IT Innovation's contribution to European Next Generation Internet Expert Groups. Michael has a BEng in multimedia communications.
