Anthony Finkelstein | |
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Born |
Anthony Charles Wiener Finkelstein 28 July 1959 London, England |
Residence | United Kingdom |
Nationality | British |
Other names | Profserious |
Alma mater |
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Known for | requirements engineering software development processes |
Awards | FREng |
Website | www0 |
Scientific career | |
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Institutions |
Imperial College London National Institute of Informatics University College London |
Thesis | The application of information systems analysis to the activity of the design of complex systems (1985) |
Doctoral advisor | Richard B. Langdon |
Anthony Charles Wiener Finkelstein, CBE, FREng (born 28 July 1959) is a British software engineer. He is Chief Scientific Adviser for National Security to HM Government. His research is based at the Alan Turing Institute and he holds a Chair in Software Systems Engineering at University College London (UCL).
Anthony Finkelstein was born on 28 July 1959. He was educated at University College School, the University of Bradford (BEng), the London School of Economics (MSc) and the Royal College of Art (PhD, 1985).
Finkelstein was, prior to assuming his current role, Dean of the UCL Faculty of Engineering Sciences and prior to that Head of UCL Computer Science.
His scientific work is in the broad area of software development tools and processes. He has also worked on applications of systems modelling in the life sciences.
He has served on the editorial boards of ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology and IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, and was founder editor of Automated Software Engineering.
He was appointed in 2013 as a Member of Council of the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council by the Minister for Universities and Science, David Willetts, MP. He is a member of the Board of the NHS Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital (RNOH) and of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Singapore National Research Foundation.