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Martin Fleury is a Visiting Fellow at the Department of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering at the University of Essex, UK. Prior to that Martin was a Senior Lecturer at Essex. Martin holds a BA (hons) in Modern History (Oxford University, UK) and a Maths/Physics-based degree (hons) from the Open University, Milton Keynes, UK in 1988. He took an MSc in Astrophysics from Queen Mary College, University of London, UK in 1990 and an MSc in Parallel Computing Systems (Dist.) in 1991 from the University of the South West, UK. His first MSc thesis was concerned with non-baryonic matter in the universe and his second MSc thesis was concerned with the parallel processing of pulse-doppler radar systems. He has worked as a commercial programmer and as a government accountant. He also has various teaching qualifications, but in 1990 he decided to leave his secondary school teaching post (in charge of computing), in favor of higher education.

From 1992 to 1995, he was employed as a researcher in parallel reconfigurable image-processing systems at Essex, UK as a result of which he gained a PhD. Martin was awarded a best postgraduate paper award from British Telecom, Martlesham Labs. at the same time. From 1995, he worked as a Senior Research Officer on a parallel signal-processing project. On completion of the project, and before taking up a lectureship at Essex, he undertook a short-term fellowship with British Telecom, when he researched real-time speech-recognition. Martin has run undergraduate and masters courses on digital design, computer microarchitecture, real-time computer graphics, parallel and distributed computing, real-time computing, hardware/software codesign, object-oriented software, operating systems, network security, and computer networks. He has supervised or co-supervised: nine PhD students to graduation in the last ten years, three masters by dissertation, and about 58 taught MSc students. Several of the taught MSc projects have resulted in journal and conference publications. He has also served as Director of Graduates (Research), with the department running a successful IEEE Conf. for PhD students. Martin has acted as an external PhD examiner in the UK and overseas. He is an external examiner for degree modules for the Arab Open University based in Kuwait and the Open University in the UK. He has managed three-year EPSRC research projects on parallel computing and on networked video. He has reviewed overseas research proposals, including ones from Canada and Holland, and has worked as a consultant on patent issues. Martin is a reviewer for many research journals including the IEEE Transactions series. Martin has also advised on potential publications for Springer Verlag. Martin is a member of the IEEE and the IET.

Martin has published at least 230 journal articles, conference research papers, and book chapters, as well as several books, since 1993. Martin is even listed amongst the world's most prolific computer science authors. He has published in IEEE Transactions on Medical Imagery, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, and IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems. He has has made contributions to networked video over wireless, low-level image- and signal-processing algorithms, the performance prediction of parallel systems, software engineering, network security, and real-time vision systems. His current research interests are in packet video over wireless networks, hardware/software co-design, document compression, (parallel) image-processing algorithms, network security, network measurement and simulation, and parallel programming environments. Martin recently co-edited a special issue of IET Communications Journal on multimedia over wireless and he is currently (2012) a guest editor for the Journal of Computer Networks and Communications. He has also recently edited a book entitled "Streaming Media with Peer-to-Peer Networks: Wireless Perspectives", which will be published in May 2012. He gave the (virtual) keynote talk for the SOMECE educational conference in Mexico, 2011 and opened the CEEC PhD conference at Essex of which he is chair.

Martin's personal interests are in art and architectural history, as well as chess. He is particularly interested in 19th century and early 20th century painting as well as modernist architecture. He reads French literature and is improving his spoken German. Martin paints in acrylics and oils, as well as in water-colours. He played chess for: Wolverhampton, where he played the late Grandmaster Tony Miles, Oxford University, where he was second board to (now) Grandmaster John Nunn, obtaining a blue; Staffs, Oxford, Lancs., Essex English counties; and many clubs including Bolton, where a youthful (now) Grandmaster Nigel Short was in the team. His main chess activity now is correspondence chess for Essex county. He enjoys cycling, mountaineering, inline roller-skating and white water rafting. He has spent many years winter mountaineering in the Scottish West Highlands. His recent interest is in treking and, having returned from Morocco's Anti-Atlas mountains, he re-learnt the rudiments of Turkish, for a camping trek in the Taurus Mts. He has now completed the 160 km Mont Blanc Tour over high Alpine passes and mountains, spending a fortnight under canvas. He has travelled the length of VietNam and recently completed a camping tour of Scandinavia, never going south of the arctic circle. The cold theme continues, as he has taken up snow-shoeing and tobogganing in Switzerland in 2011.

Martin is married with one son. His brother, Clive Fleury, is a leading British TV and film director.

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