John A Clark
Professor of Critical Systems
MA Maths (Oxon), MSc
Applied Statistics (Oxon), PhD in 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
Tel: +44 (0)1904
325354 /
Fax: +44 (0)1904 325599
Email: <
john.clark@cs.york.ac.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).