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“Don’t think, look!”
John
A Clark
Professor
of Critical Systems
MA Maths (Oxon), MSc
Applied Statistics (Oxon), DPhil Computer Science (York)
Deputy Head of
Department - Responsible for Research –
since April 2009
Department of Computer Science and YYCSA
University of York, Deramore Lane,
York, YO10 5GH, UK
Research Teaching (Teaching CV) Presentations
library Local Network: Quantum SIG
Useful Links: EPSRC google
I did Mathematics and then an MSc in Applied Statistics at
Oxford. I then joined the security division of the software and systems house
Logica in 1987, working as a security and high integrity software evaluation
consultant to HMG and then on a security ‘R & D’ thinktank for HMG. I
joined York in 1992. I have been research active since around 1997 (with a few
outputs before then). My personal and supervised research work concentrates on
aspects of security and software engineering (with a particular interest in
applying heuristic computing and other AI to these areas), though I am more
eclectic on what I supervise as taught course projects. I was awarded my PhD in
2002 and promoted to a Personal Chair in January 2005. I have been cited around
3300 times, as far as I can tell.
I believe that “teaching is part of the job". From
2005-2007 I was Chair of Examinations within the Department of Computer Science
at York. I was secretary to various Boards of Examiners for around 7 years too.
I aim to play as best a part I can in the wider academic community. I have been
(taught course) external examiner at seven UK Universities in the past seven
years (Undergraduate EE at: King’s College London, Sheffield, and currently at Brunel, and Imperial College
London. Postgraduate EE at: Open, Newcastle, and currently at University College Dublin.) I aim to maintain some EE
presence and will take on appointments as my current ones expire.
In the past seven years I have also been co-author of eight prize-winning research papers: particular thanks to my PhD students, many of whom I taught as undergraduates. In the past three years I have published or collaborated on proposals with members of every one of our eight research groups.
Since April 2009 I have been Deputy Head of Department (Responsible for Research).