Jane Hillston

Jane Hillston
Born	1963 (age 53–54)
Residence	Edinburgh, Scotland
Institutions	University of Edinburgh
Alma mater	University of York (B.A. 1985) Lehigh University (M.Sc. 1987) University of Edinburgh (Ph.D. 1994)
Thesis	A Compositional Approach to Performance Modelling (1994)
Doctoral advisor	Robert J. Pooley Julian Bradfield
Doctoral students	Isabel Rojas Graham Clark Paolo Ballarini Jie Ding Michael Smith
Known for	PEPA
Notable awards	Roger Needham award (2004)

Jane Elizabeth Hillston (born 1963) is Professor of Quantitative Modelling and an EPSRC Advanced Research Fellow in the School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, Scotland.

Hillston received a BA in Mathematics from the University of York in 1985, an MSc in Mathematics from Lehigh University in the United States in 1987 and a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Edinburgh in 1994, where she has spent her subsequent academic career. Her thesis won one of the BCS/CPHC Distinguished Dissertation Awards for 1995 and has been published by Cambridge University Press. She has been an EPSRC Research Fellow (1994–1995), lecturer (1995–2001), reader (2001–2006) and now professor since 2006. She is a member of the Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science at Edinburgh.

Jane Hillston has worked on process algebras. In particular, she has developed the PEPA process algebra, and helped develop Bio-PEPA, which is based on the earlier PEPA algebra and is specifically aimed at analyzing biochemical networks. There is now a club for people with PEPA research interests within the Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science at Edinburgh. In 2004, she received the first Roger Needham Award at the Royal Society in London.The Roger Needham award is rewarded to a large contributor of computer research in the UK. In March 2007 she was elected to be a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

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