Ian Gorton
· Professor of the Practice, Director of Mobility ProgramsNortheastern University · Software Engineering
Active 1989–2024
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About
Ian Gorton is a professor of the practice and the director of mobility programs in the Khoury College of Computer Sciences at Northeastern University, based in Seattle. He is passionate about analyzing and designing complex, high-performance distributed systems, and strives to instill design and architecture principles in methods and tools that can be exploited by architects for other projects. Before joining Northeastern in 2015, he was a senior member of the technical staff at the Carnegie Mellon University Software Engineering Institute, where he designed massively scalable software architectures for big data applications and built knowledge bases to support engineering tasks using both manual methods and machine learning. Prior to that, Gorton was a laboratory fellow in computational sciences and math at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, managing the Data Intensive Scientific Computing research group and serving as the chief architect for the lab's Data Intensive Computing Initiative. His research experience includes projects in environmental modeling, carbon capture and sequestration, and bioinformatics, which have contributed to his interest in designing large-scale, highly customizable cyber-infrastructures for scientific research. Gorton is a senior member of the IEEE Computer Society and a Fellow of the Australian Computer Society, with previous industry and academic experience at National ICT Australia, CSIRO, IBM, Microsoft, and in Australia.
Research topics
- Political Science
- Computer Science
- Sociology
- Psychology
- Medicine
- Mathematics education
- Pedagogy
- Medical education
Selected publications
2020 · 13 citations
We have created, piloted and are growing the Align program, a Master of Science in Computer Science (MS in CS) for post-secondary graduates who did not major in CS. Our goal is to create a pathway to CS for all students, with particular attention to women and underrepresented minorities. Indeed, women represent 57% and underrepresented minorities represent 25% of all bachelor's recipients in the U.S., but only 19.5% and 12.6% of CS graduates, respectively. If we can fill this opportunity gap, we…
2017-04-01 · 10 citations
article1st authorCorrespondingSoftware architects inhabit a complex, rapidly evolving technological landscape. An ever growing collection of competing architecturally significant technologies, ranging from distributed databases to middleware and cloud platforms, makes rigorously comparing alternatives and selecting appropriate solutions a daunting engineering task. To address this problem, we envisage an ecosystem of curated, automatically updated knowledge bases that enable straightforward and streamlined technical comparis…
Hyperscalability – The Changing Face of Software Architecture
Elsevier eBooks · 2017-01-01 · 6 citations
book-chapter1st authorCorrespondingI don’t feel so good! Detecting Depressive Tendencies using Transformer-based Multimodal Frameworks
2022-12-23 · 4 citations
articleOne of the most common mental illnesses that affects 5% of adults globally is depression. The advancement of social media has meant that more and more people have gained a platform to voice their thoughts and beliefs. People’s social media interactions and posted content can be used to infer critical characteristics such as depressive tendencies which will allow for timely intervention and help. This paper describes a novel supervised approach to detect depressive tendencies in Twitter users usi…
Foundations of Scalable Software Architectures
2022-03-01 · 4 citations
article1st authorCorrespondingScalability is a driving software quality attribute for many contemporary, Internet-facing systems. Applications that fail or perform slowly and reject requests under high request loads are rapidly deserted by users, and the resulting business and societal impacts can be profound. This paper summarizes some of the key foundational issues of scalable software and system architectures. Design patterns and tactics needed to ensure scalability are briefly described for both the processing and persis…
Frequent coauthors
- 29 shared
Liming Zhu
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
- 28 shared
Muhammad Ali Babar
Prince Sultan University
- 21 shared
Yan Liu
- 18 shared
Innes Jelly
University of Sheffield
- 16 shared
Minghui Zhou
- 16 shared
Yuxia Zhang
- 14 shared
Adam Wynne
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
- 13 shared
Jian Yin
Awards & honors
- Senior Member of the IEEE Computer Society
- Fellow of the Australian Computer Society
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