“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

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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).

Tel: +44 (0)1904 325354 / <john.clark@cs.york.ac.uk>
Fax: +44 (0)1904 325599

Last updated 16.11.2010