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Mr Paul Hathaway

Hathaway,_P_150.jpgData Analysis Team Leader

Phone +61 (0)2 9717 3201
Email Paul.Hathaway@ansto.gov.au

Paul leads the Bragg Institute Data Analysis Team, responsible for driving the software and infrastructure development for the treatment of data sets during the acquisition phase of experiments, as well as providing tools for the visualisation and fundamental algorithmic manipulation of the data sets. The team provides expertise in the use of a number of data analysis suites, and develops software for the export of data sets to custom formats for further analysis. The team is also responsible for contributing to, and promoting, international standards for data formats and algorithms at the OPAL facility.

Paul's expertise lies in the fields of data acquisition systems, instrument control systems, software engineering, scientific algorithm development, agile software development

Paul Hathaway is a Professional Engineer with a background in data acquisition systems, control systems and software engineering. His experience in industry has ranged from computer network support at the University of Ottawa, through the redesign of equipment on locomotives, to the field testing and performance analysis of railway vehicles for FreightCorp using mobile data acquisition systems developed for harsh environments.

Qualifications and achievements

  • Establish and lead the Bragg Institute Data Analysis Team (2006).
  • Provide senior development support for the instrument control and data acquisition systems for the Neutron Beam Instrument Project at the OPAL Research Facility (2004-2005).
  • Design and develop instrument control and data acquisition interfaces for the HIFAR Neutron Reflectometer instrument (2002-2004).
  • Develop device, instrument, and experiment control interfaces for the HIFAR Small Angle Neutron Scattering instrument (2000-2003).
  • B.Sc. in Physics, University of Technology, Sydney (2000)
  • B.E. in Electrical Engineering (Telecommunications), University of Technology, Sydney (1991)

Key Publications

H.Rayner, P.Hathaway, N.Hauser, Y.Fei, F.Franceschini & T.Lam, "GumTree: Data Reduction", Physica B 385-386, 1333-1335 (2006)

T.Lam, N.Hauser, A.G?tz, P.Hathaway, F.Franceschini & H.Rayner, "GumTree-An integrated scientific experiment environment", Physica B 385-386, 1330-1332 (2006)

M.James, A.Nelson, J.C.Schulz, M.J.Jones, M.Tran, and P.Hathaway, "A New Neutron Reflectometer at Australia's HIFAR Research Reactor, Nuclear Instrum Methods A 536, 165-175 (2005)

P.V.Hathaway,, T.Lam, N.Hauser, A.Gotz, F.Franceschini "An Integrated and Agile Approach to Delivering Extensible Instrument Control System Software at ANSTO", in Proceedings of NOBUGS 2004, 18 - 20 October 2004, Villigen, Switzerland

Memberships and Affiliations

  • Member of IEEE Computer Society and IEEE Electronic Devices Society