Blair Archibald
Lecturer at University of Glasgow School of Computing Science
Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolBlair Archibald is a Lecturer and researcher in computing with 13 years of experience blending software and electronics engineering, currently based at the University of Glasgow. He specialises in software design across multiple paradigms with a practical enthusiasm for functional programming and scalable combinatorial search—work that underpinned his PhD and subsequent research roles. Blair enjoys full-stack engagement from low-level sensor and embedded concerns to high-level back-end systems, and he has applied that breadth to teaching, research projects, and software sustainability initiatives as a long-standing Software Sustainability Institute Fellow. An active open-source contributor, he has improved the Freeplane mind-mapping application by enhancing connector behaviour and visual representation for looped nodes—an example of his attention to both algorithmic detail and user-facing interaction.
13 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Electronic and Software Engineering, Honours of the First Class, Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Electronic and Software Engineering, Honours of the First Class at The University of GlasgowGraeme High School, FalkirkDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at University of Glasgow
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Github Skills (6)
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java10
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writers3
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
freeplane/freeplane
Aug 2012 - Feb 2015
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:73 commits, 2 pushes, 1 comment in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Blair contributed to the Freeplane mind mapping application by adding functionality related to connectors for self-linked nodes. They modified the `ConnectorView.java` file to add an offset for loop nodes and implemented new connector shapes. The user also made changes to the `MLinkController.java` file, likely to add UI elements or logic related to the new connector types. These changes focused on improving link behavior and visual representation within the mind maps.
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BlairArchibald/glasgow-subgraph-solver
Mar 2021 - Feb 2025
A solver for subgraph isomorphism problems, based upon a series of papers by subsets of McCreesh, Prosser, and Trimble.
Contributions:9 PRs, 21 pushes, 11 branches in 3 years 11 months
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