Sir Anthony Finkelstein#
| Membership Number: | 3512 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | INFORMATICS |
| Elected: | 2013 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/a.finkelstein |
Present and Previous Positions
- Professor of Software Systems Engineering
- Dean of Engineering Sciences, University College London
- Senior Dean UCL School of Engineering, Mathematics, Physical Sciences & the Built Environment (BEAMS)
- Visiting Professor, Imperial College London
- Distinguished Visiting Professor, National Institute for Informatics, Tokyo, Japan
- Member of Council (Ministerial Appointment) Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)
- 2010 - date Executive Dean of the Faculty of Engineering Sciences, UCL
- 2002 - 2010 Head of Department, Dept. of Computer Science, UCL
- 1997 - date Professor of Software Systems Engineering, Dept. of Computer Science, UCL
- 1995 - 1997 Head of Department, Dept. of Computer Science, City University, London
- 1994 - 1997 Professor of Computer Science, Dept. of Computer Science, City University, London
- 1988 - 1994 Lecturer, Dept. of Computing, Imperial College London
- 1985 - 1988 Post-doctoral Research Fellow, Dept. of Computing, Imperial College London
Fields of Scholarship
- Enterprise computing systems
- Software systems engineering
- Systems biology and computational biomedicine
- Large-scale system modelling
Honours and Awards
- 2022 Knight Bachelor (Kt), 2022 New Year’s Honours
- Fellowship of the Royal Academy of Engineering. Membership of the national academy for engineering
- Fellowship of City and Guilds of London Institute. Recognising “an outstanding contribution to engineering sciences and an unswerving commitment to education”
- Outstanding Contribution Award, International Conference on Software Engineering. A special award presented by the premier international forum recognising outstanding contribution in developing the highly cited ‘Software Engineering State-of-the-Art’ publication
- Institution of Engineering and Technology, Oliver Lodge Medal. Achievement medal of a leading UK professional body awarded “for outstanding and sustained contributions to information technology”
- Times Higher Education ‘Research Project of the Year’. “For work on the National Cancer Research Institute Informatics Initiative” (with Prof. R Begent)
- Both IEEE & ACM Service Awards. “For an outstanding contribution to the software engineering community”. From the leading US professional bodies
- IEEE Computer Society Certificate of Appreciation. “For outstanding contribution in establishing the area of Requirements Engineering”. Recognition of my role as a pioneer in the area of requirements engineering and management
- Most Influential Paper Award, International Conference on Software Engineering. Prestigious award by premier international forum recognising work that has had greatest influence over preceding 10 years. For work on multiple views of software systems
- Most Influential Paper Award, International Conference on Requirements Engineering. Prestigious award by important international forum recognising work that has had greatest influence over preceding 10 years. For work on requirements traceability
- Management & Design Premium, Institution of Electrical Engineers. Significant prize awarded by professional institution for work on systems design methods
