Previously, I was a Research Associate at the University of Glasgow, investigating methods to improve distributed decision making in large organisations, using a combination of natural language processing and social network analysis.

• Matthew Russell Barnes, Mladen Karan, Stephen McQuistin, Colin Perkins, Gareth Tyson, Matthew Purver, Ignacio Castro, Richard G. Clegg. Temporal Network Analysis of Email Communication Patterns in a Long Standing Hierarchy. Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM). June 2024. Conference Paper
• Patrick Healey, Prashant Khare, Ignacio Castro, Gareth Tyson, Mladen Karan, Ravi Shekhar, Stephen McQuistin, Colin Perkins, Matthew Purver. Power and Vulnerability: Managing Sensitive Language in Organisational Communication. Frontiers in Psychology. February 2024. Journal Article
• Elizabeth Boswell, Stephen McQuistin, Colin Perkins, and Stephen Strowes. Measuring NAT64 Usage in the Wild. arXiv:2402.14632. February 2024. Technical Report

• Stephen McQuistin, Peter Snyder, Colin Perkins, Hamed Haddadi, Gareth Tyson. A First Look at the Privacy Harms of the Public Suffix List. Proceedings of the ACM Internet Measurement Conference, Montreal, Canada. October 2023. Conference Paper
• Maha Said Khalfan Al-anqoudi, Mireilla Bikanga Ada, Stephen McQuistin, Nikos Ntarmos, Jack Parkinson, Yashar Moshfeghi. Traditional Vs Non-Traditional Assessment Activities as Learning Indicators of Student Learning: Teachers' Perceptions. Proceedings of IEEE Learning with MOOCS (LWMOOCS 2023), Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. October 2023. Conference Paper
• Prashant Khare, Ravi Shekhar, Mladen Karan, Stephen McQuistin, Colin Perkins, Ignacio Castro, Gareth Tyson, Patrick Healey, Matthew Purver. Tracing Linguistic Markers of Influence in a Large Online Organisation. Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2023), Toronto, Canada. July 2023. Conference Paper
• Mladen Karan, Prashant Khare, Ravi Shekhar, Stephen McQuistin, Colin Perkins, Ignacio Castro, Gareth Tyson, Patrick Healey, Matthew Purver. LEDA: a Large-Organization Email-Based Decision-Dialogue-Act Analysis Dataset. Findings of the Association of Computational Linguistics (ACL 2023), Toronto, Canada. July 2023. Conference Paper
• Stephen McQuistin, Mladen Karan, Prashant Khare, Colin Perkins, Matthew Purver, Patrick Healey, Ignacio Castro, Gareth Tyson. Errare humanum est: What do RFC Errata say about Internet Standards?. Proceedings of the IFIP Traffic Measurement and Analysis Conference (TMA 2023), Naples, Italy. June 2023. Conference Paper
• Patrick Healey, Prashant Khare, Ignacio Castro, Gareth Tyson, Mladen Karan, Ravi Shekhar, Stephen McQuistin, Colin Perkins, Matthew Purver. Power and Vulnerability: Managing Sensitive Language in Organisational Communication. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Society for Text and Discourse (ST&D 2023), Oslo, Norway. June 2023. Extended Abstract

• 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
• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

• 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

• 2024: PC member, The Web Conference (Systems and Infrastructure for Web, Mobile, and WoT track)
• 2023: PC member, Passive and Active Measurement (PAM) Conference
• 2023: PC member, CoNEXT Student Workshop
• 2023: PC member, ACM Internet Measurement Conference
• 2023: PC member, ACM Multimedia Systems Conference (MMSys), Open Dataset Track
• 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

• 2023 –: Lecturer, Data Communications and Networks (CS3102) (University of St Andrews)
• 2023 –: Lecturer, Advanced Communication Networks and Systems (CS4105) (University of St Andrews)
• 2023 –: Supporting Lecturer, Principles of Computer Communication Systems (CS5020) (University of St Andrews)
• 2019 – 2023: Lead Instructor, Project Research Readings In Computing Science (M) (University of Glasgow)

postal address

School of Computer Science
University of St Andrews
Jack Cole Building
North Haugh
St Andrews
KY16 9SX
United Kingdom

e-mail address

sjm55@st-andrews.ac.uk

GitHub profile

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