Career summary

I am a Senior Lecturer in Real-Time Systems at the University of York and a Visiting Professor with Mälardalen University in Sweden. In 1999 I was awarded a DPhil titled "Scheduling and Timing Analysis of Safety Critical Hard Real-time Systems", reference: YCST-99-04. I am the Editor-in-Chief of the Elsevier Journal of System Architecture.

Research interests

    My research targets all embedded systems, especially those that are critical and Wireless Sensor Networks. The main research questions being tackled include:
  • How to design systems so that they can be shown to be dependable.
  • How to gather evidence of dependability such that sufficient confidence is achieved.
  • How to design systems to reduce the cost of change and support incremental certification.

Full details of possible PhD topics can be found here.