Wayne Kelly, Queensland University of Technology, Australia

Dr Wayne Kelly is a Senior Lecturer and Deputy Head of School within the Faculty of Information Technology at the Queensland University of Technology, Australia. Dr Kelly joined QUT in 1996 after completing his PhD in Computer Science at the University of Maryland at College Park.

Dr Kelly's research interests include parallel computing, system's middleware and compilers. In 2006 Dr Kelly co-founded and lead the Ruby.NET project, and is now an active external contributor on the IronRuby project. His teaching interests include advanced n-tier web development and enterprise software architecture. He is married with two young daughters and enjoys cycling, cooking and poker.