Dr. Alan Oxley is a Professor in the Computer and Information Sciences Department (CIS) at Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS. CIS has several staff and graduate students undertaking research in e-government. At the university, Dr. Oxley supervises a number of graduate students, two of whom are conducting research on Web 2.0—one on mash-ups and one on social networking. Oxley is a chartered member of the British Computer Society. He has been an active member, writing a number of articles for the society’s publications.

Dr. Oxley received his Ph.D. in Engineering (thesis title: “Computer Assisted Learning of Structural Analysis”) from Lancaster University, United Kingdom. He teaches courses on software agents and software architecture and patterns. He recently revamped the software architecture course to make it more relevant to Web 2.0. Dr. Oxley produced the acceptable use policy for the previous university at which he was employed; see the article published in Educause Quarterly 2005, “Formulating a Policy on IT Provision.” He has obtained grant funds for computer science research.

Dr. Oxley has a number of research interests, a key one of which is IT service management. He has written articles and conducted presentations on a variety of topics. Dr. Oxley is currently at work preparing for his role in a 2012 conference.