#biography

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Born in L-Andrijiet, a small village outside Rabat, Malta, Godwin’s interest in computing in general started at a very young age. His fondness for information technology has been cultivated since he was 13 while still attending the Liceo Vassalli Junior Lyceum at tal-Handaq.

Godwin is a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) graduate from the University of Brunel (UK), with a research focus on High Performance Computing, Algorithms & Machine Learning/AI (Computer and Electronic Engineering programme, School of Engineering and Design) respectively.

He is also part of the research community at the University of Brunel within the Electronic and Computer Engineering (School of Engineering and Design) group. This school has been rated as one of the top performers in its respective research field as can be identified from respective Research Assessment Exercises. This particular research group has it’s primary interests in grid computing and applications, service discovery with rough sets, scalable grid information services modelling with petri-nets, P2P computing, scalable video streaming, information retrieval, content based image retrieval, mobile/wireless networks and applications, context aware mobile computing. His current research is centered around high performance, cloud, grid and distributed computing, big data, AI and machine learning. He has an avid personal interest in distributed (and associated) computing concepts as well as operating systems research. He is also active in a number of research and innovation spheres, a Senior Member of the Association of Computing Machinery, a member of the British Computer Society and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, as well as a Chartered IT Professional (CITP).

A combination of more than 30 years of experience as well as formal academic background gives him a very strong knowledge base (both in terms of depth as well as breadth) in various Information Technology research, adoption, implementation and governance areas. He has actively contributed in numerous high profile projects within the Public Service and Private Sector. He is currently a full time resident academic at the University of Malta, Board of Studies Coordinator - BSc (Hons) in Business & IT as well as occupies/has occupied various roles within the industry, including Chief Executive Officer, Chief Technology Office, Chief Operating Officer, Chief Information Security Officer and non-executive director ones.

He is also an Independent Expert & Evaluator on the European Horizon 2020, **European FP7** programmes as well as an EU COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology) member. He is also an Appointed Courts Expert - Information Technology - Courts of Law, Malta

He is also a founding partner at iGrant.io

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