I'm a research associate in the Networked Systems research group, part of the Glasgow Systems Section, within the School of Computing Science at the University of Glasgow.

I'm a research associate on the EPSRC-funded project "Streamlining Social Decision Making for Improved Internet Standards" (EP/S036075/1). This project aims to develop methods to improve distributed decision making in large organisations, using a combination of natural language processing and social network analysis.

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Publications

2022

• Fionnuala Johnson, Stephen McQuistin, John O'Donnell, Quintin Cutts. Experience Report: Identifying Unexpected Programming Misconceptions with a Computer Systems Approach. Proceedings of the 27th ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Education (ITiCSE 2022), Dublin, Ireland. July 2022. Conference Paper
• Ethel Tshukudu, Sofiat Olaosebikan, Kenechi Omeke, Alexandrina Pancheva, Stephen McQuistin, Lydia John Jilantikiri, Maha Al-Anqoudi. Broadening Participation in Computing: Experiences of an Online Programming Workshop for African Students. Proceedings of the 27th ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Education (ITiCSE 2022), Dublin, Ireland. July 2022. Conference Paper
• Mihail Yanev, Stephen McQuistin, and Colin Perkins. Does TCP New Congestion Window Validation Improve HTTP Adaptive Streaming Performance?. Proceedings of the 32nd ACM SIGMM Workshop on Network and Operating Systems Support for Digital Audio and Video (NOSSDAV 2022), Athlone, Ireland. June 2022. Conference Paper
• Prashant Khare, Mladen Karan, Stephen McQuistin, Colin Perkins, Gareth Tyson, Matthew Purver, Patrick Healey, and Ignacio Castro. The Web We Weave: Untangling the Social Graph of the IETF. Proceedings of the 16th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media, Atlanta, Georgia, USA. June 2022. Conference Paper

2021

• Stephen McQuistin, Mladen Karan, Prashant Khare, Colin Perkins, Gareth Tyson, Matthew Purver, Patrick Healey, Waleed Iqbal, Junaid Qadir, and Ignacio Castro. Characterising the IETF Through the Lens of RFC Deployment. Proceedings of the ACM Internet Measurement Conference, Online. November 2021. Conference Paper
• Stephen McQuistin, Vivian Band, Dejice Jacob, and Colin Perkins. Investigating Automatic Code Generation for Network Packet Parsing. Proceedings of the IFIP Networking Conference, Espoo, Finland. June 2021. Conference Paper

2020

• Stephen McQuistin, Vivian Band, Dejice Jacob, and Colin Perkins. Parsing Protocol Standards to Parse Standard Protocols. Proceedings of the ACM/IRTF Applied Networking Research Workshop, Online. July 2020. Conference Paper
• Fionnuala Johnson, Stephen McQuistin, and John O'Donnell. Analysis of Student Misconceptions using Python as an Introductory Programming Language. Proceedings of Computing Education Practice 2020, Durham, UK. January 2020. Conference Paper

2019

• Stephen McQuistin, Sree Priyanka Uppu, and Marcel Flores. Taming Anycast in the Wild Internet. Proceedings of the ACM Internet Measurement Conference, Amsterdam, the Netherlands. October 2019. Conference Paper
• Stephen McQuistin. Deployable Transport Services for Low-Latency Multimedia Applications. PhD Thesis, School of Computing Science, University of Glasgow. August 2019. Thesis

2018

• Saba Ahsan, Stephen McQuistin, Colin Perkins, and Jörg Ott. DASHing Towards Hollywood. Proceedings of the ACM Multimedia Systems Conference, Amsterdam, the Netherlands. June 2018. Conference Paper

2017

• Stephen McQuistin and Marcel Flores. Mapping an Anycast CDN using RIPE Atlas. Poster presented at the ACM Internet Measurement Conference, London, UK. November 2017. Poster

2016

• Stephen McQuistin, Colin Perkins, and Marwan Fayed. Implementing Real-Time Transport Services Over an Ossified Network. Proceedings of the ACM, IRTF and ISOC Applied Networking Research Workshop, Berlin, Germany. July 2016. Conference Paper
• Stephen McQuistin, Colin Perkins, and Marwan Fayed. TCP Hollywood: An Unordered, Time-Lined, TCP for Networked Multimedia Applications. Proceedings of the IFIP Networking Conference, Vienna, Austria. May 2016. Conference Paper
• Stephen McQuistin, Colin Perkins, and Marwan Fayed. TCP Goes to Hollywood. Proceedings of the 26th ACM SIGMM Workshop on Network and Operating Systems Support for Digital Audio and Video (NOSSDAV 2016), Klagenfurt, Austria. May 2016. Conference Paper

2015

• Stephen McQuistin and Colin Perkins. Consolidating Streams to Improve DASH Cache Utilisation. Poster presented at the ACM CoNEXT Conference, Heidelberg, Germany. December 2015. Poster
• Stephen McQuistin and Colin Perkins. Is Explicit Congestion Notification usable with UDP?. Proceedings of the ACM Internet Measurement Conference, Tokyo, Japan. October 2015. Conference Paper
• Stephen McQuistin and Colin Perkins. Reinterpreting the Transport Protocol Stack to Embrace Ossification. Proceedings of the IAB Workshop on Stack Evolution in a Middlebox Internet, Zurich, Switzerland. January 2015. Conference Paper

2014

• Stephen McQuistin. Transport-Layer Support for Multimedia Applications. MSci Thesis, School of Computing Science, University of Glasgow. April 2014. Thesis

2013

• Varun Singh, Stephen McQuistin, Martin Ellis, and Colin Perkins. Circuit Breakers for Multimedia Congestion Control. Proceedings of the 20th International Packet Video Workshop, San Jose, CA, USA. December 2013. Conference Paper

Research Service

• 2022: PC member, ACM Internet Measurement Conference
• 2022: PC member, ACM Multimedia Systems Conference (MMSys), Open Dataset Track
• 2022: PC member, Passive and Active Measurement (PAM) Conference
• 2021: PC member, ACM Multimedia Systems Conference (MMSys), Open Dataset Track

Teaching

• 2019 – Present: Lead Instructor, Project Research Readings In Computing Science (M)

Contact

Address

School of Computing Science
Sir Alwyn Williams Building
University of Glasgow
Glasgow G12 8QQ
United Kingdom

E-mail

stephen.mcquistin@glasgow.ac.uk

GitHub

lumisota

Twitter

@lumisota