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Colin Perkins is a Professor in the School of Computing Science at the University of Glasgow. His research relates to the development of Internet technologies and standards, with a focus on the design of transport protocols for real-time and interactive multimedia, on measuring and understanding the behaviour of the Internet, and on improving the way Internet protocols are designed, implemented, specified, and standardised.

He chaired the Internet Research Task Force (IRTF) and served as an ex-officio member of the Internet Architecture Board from 2019-2025, developing connections between the networking research community and the Internet standards development and governance communities.

He is also a long-time participant in the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), where he develops technical standards that describe the operation of the Internet, and where he played a key role in designing globally deployed multimedia transport and signalling protocol standards that underpin modern Internet video platforms. He is a former co-chair of the IETF's Real-time Media Congestion Avoidance Techniques, Audio/Video Transport, and Multiparty Multimedia Session Control working groups, and serves on the Transport Area Review Team.

Prior to joining the University of Glasgow, he was a Research Assistant Professor at the University of Southern California from 2000-2003, and before that a Research Fellow at University College London from 1996-2000. He received his BEng in Electronic Engineering in 1992, and his PhD in 1996, both from the Department of Electronics at the University of York. He's a fellow of the Higher Education Academy, a senior member of the IEEE, and a member of the ACM and IET.

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