Professor Morris Sloman FREng, FIEEE, FBCS, FIET is Dean of Engineering and head of the Distributed Software Engineering Section in the Department of Computing. He is a member of the executive of the UK Computing Research Committee and the International Advisory Council for INESC-Lisboa. He was Deputy Chair of the UK Computing Research Assessment sub-panel in 2008 and a member in 2001.

His research interests include autonomic management of pervasive and distributed systems, adaptive security management, privacy and security for pervasive systems. He is on the steering committees for the conferences on Policies for Distributed Systems and Networks, Integrated Management (IM), Network Operations and Management (NOMS). He is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Network and Systems Management and is editor-in-chief of IEEE Transactions on Network and Services Management.