Professor Ian Marshall

Btexact Technologies
Email: Ian.W.Marshall@bt.com

Ian Marshall is a long-term research manager at BT Exact Technologies (formerly BT Labs). He is Visiting Professor of Telecommunications at South Bank University, and a Royal Society Industrial Fellow at University College, London. Since graduating from Durham in 1981 he has led research in optical communication networks, broadband networks, and distributed computing systems, and spent several years as a senior strategy adviser in BT headquarters.

He is the author of over 100 papers and articles and holds 16 patents, and was the winner of the Alan Rudge award for innovation in 1997. He is a chartered engineer, a Fellow of the Institute of Physics, the British Computer Society and the Geological Society, and a senior member of the IEEE.

In addition he is the chairman of the Iop ITEC group, deputy chair of the IoP CEng committee, and has co-chaired a range of network research conferences.