Mike Hinchey

Michael G. Hinchey
Born	1969 (age 47–48) Limerick, Republic of Ireland
Residence	Limerick, Republic of Ireland
Citizenship	Republic of Ireland, USA
Nationality	Irish
Fields	Computer science
Institutions	University of Nebraska, Queen's University Belfast, New Jersey Institute of Technology, University of Skövde, Loyola College in Maryland, University of Queensland, Virginia Tech, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center University of Limerick
Alma mater	University of Limerick, Wolfson College, Oxford, St John's College, Cambridge
Known for	Formal methods, Vice-President of IFIP

Michael Gerard Hinchey (born 1969) is an Irish computer scientist and Director at the Irish Software Engineering Research Centre (Lero), a multi-university research centre headquartered at the University of Limerick, Ireland.

Mike Hinchey studied at the University of Limerick as an undergraduate (was the leading student in his graduating year), Oxford University (at Wolfson College) for his MSc and Cambridge University (at St John's College) for his PhD.

Hinchey has been a promulgator of formal methods throughout his career, especially CSP and the Z notation. He was Director of the NASA Software Engineering Laboratory at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and is the founding editor-in-chief of the NASA journal Innovations in Systems and Software Engineering, launched in 2005.

He has held many academic positions, both visiting and permanent, at a number of universities including the University of Nebraska, Queen's University Belfast, New Jersey Institute of Technology,Hiroshima University the University of Skövde in Sweden and was at Loyola College in Maryland (now Loyola University Maryland), United States, before his current post.