Professor O'Reilly was Chief Executive of the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council from October 2001 until November 2006. He has moved to be Vice Chancellor at Cranfield University.
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John O'Reilly |
His technical interests focus on Information and Communication Technologies with an emphasis on communication networks and applications. He is the author of some 350+ journal and conference papers and author/editor for three books on telecommunications.
He chairs the UK's Network Interoperability Consultative Committee (NICC) for Ofcom and the industry and has served as a specialist advisor to UK Government (DTI and the Foreign Office) and to the European Commission.
A Chartered Engineer and a Chartered Scientist, he is a Fellow and former member of the Council of the Royal Academy of Engineering and past President of EUREL, the confederation of European Electrical Engineering Professional Societies. A Fellow of the IEE, of the Institute of Physics and of the British Computer Society, he is the 2004-05 President of the IEE.