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C.V for Dr Mark Nicholson (17/3/2011) ·
Department of Computer Science,
University of York, ·
1991
- present ·
Coordinator Safety Critical Systems MSc’s ·
Previous
posts: Research Associate Hard Real-Time
Systems Group (1991-1998), Research and Teaching Fellow (1998 – 2005) ·
Qualifications: BA (Ebor) in Economics and
Statistics (1986), MSc (Soton) in Operational Research (1988), Dphil (Ebor) titled "Selecting a
Topology for Safety-Critical Real-Time Systems" (1998), Postgraduate
Certificate for Academic Practice Ebor, 2003). ·
Memberships:
Associate member of BCS (ABCS 2009-
present), Associate member of Safety and
Reliability Society (ASaRS, 2005 – present), Member of Safety-Critical
Systems Club (2000 – present), Fellow of Higher Education Academy (2003 –
present). ·
PhD
Supervisor(s): Prof. Alan
Burns Teaching Safety Critical Systems
Engineering (SCSE) Masters level teaching to Continued Professional
Development (CPD) students: ·
I am responsible for the following module: System Safety Assessment
(SSA). I set and first mark the assessment
for this module. ·
I lecture on the following modules: FSE, HRA, SSA, CAS, TLS ·
I demonstrate on the following modules: FSE, HRA, SSA, CAS, OMM, HRM, SCM, SWR ·
I second mark FSE,
HRA, HRM, TLS Gas Turbine Control (GTC)
Masters level teaching to CPD students: ·
I am responsible for the following module: Introduction to System
Safety (SSG). I set and first mark the assessment for the SSG
module. ·
I lecture on the following modules: GS1, GS2, SSG. ·
I demonstrate on the following modules: GS1, GS2, SSG, SWR. External tailored CPD
courses: ·
I have taught on nearly 200 tailored CPD courses
for industry in the U.K., U.S., Australia, Saudi Arabia. Many of these
courses were commissioned to bring staff up to speed relating to specific
projects or changes. ·
In 2007 for instance I lectured and demonstrated on 10 such
courses for industry including for Airbus,
BAE SYSTEMS, and Lockheed Martin (Railway). The
two most important courses were for the Royal Saudi Airforce (I acted as
course leader for this trip to Saudi Arabia) and a set of courses to
inspectors on the introduction of Safety Management Systems for the CAA. ·
I have also lectured, demonstrated and set the
assessment on one external academic course for the Australian National University
Canberra. This was a Masters level module. ·
I provided a session on CPD for the
YCAP programme at the University of York (2004 – 2007) Student
feedback on these courses is available for 2006.and 2007.
In 2007 I contributed 110 lectures at an average score of 3.94 (against an
overall average for the programme of 3.88 on a scale of 1-5). Previous
feedback is also available, as well as YCAP teaching portfolio for 2002 –
2003 which indicates development of taught material and improvement activities. Research & Industrial Interaction /
Consultancy Most of the research projects I have undertaken over the last 15
years have been projects involving collaboration with industrial partners and
address the requirements of those partners. So I have a range of experience
of collaborating with companies in the Aerospace, military and automotive
sectors. I
have also undertaken a range of consultancy activities over the years related
to development of safety critical systems, system safety engineering and hard
real-time systems. In 2007 for instance I worked with a company selling a
product developed for the civil market into a military environment. In 2008 I
worked with a military company that was producing a hazard log for a
logistics information system. In 2009 I helped a company respond to a
rejected ALARP case. I hope to extend this portfolio in the future. Research
Interests / skills I
have extensive research and consultancy activities in the field of Hard-real
Time and Safety Critical Systems. Research interests include: ·
Operational Safety ·
Configuration and reconfiguration on failure of safety critical
systems including avionics ·
Data rich environments and the impact on safety assessment ·
Quantitative versus qualitative safety analysis ·
Safety process issues relating to Integrated Modular Avionics ·
Safety Management Systems ·
Tool qualification for Safety-critical Systems. ·
Design contracts and safety case contracts for safety critical
systems ·
Common cause analysis techniques ·
ALARP cases Skills
include: ·
Safety Management Systems ·
Zonal Hazard Analysis (aka Zonal Safety Analysis) ·
Risk analysis ·
Hazard analysis (SHARD and HAZOP) ·
System Safety analysis (Fault Tree Analysis, Failure Modes and
Effects Analysis) ·
Schedulability analysis ·
Allocation of hard-real time systems ·
Development of GSN safety case arguments ·
Systems safety processes Publications Books
and Reports 1. SAE, ARP4754A:
Guidelines for Development of
Civil Aircraft and Systems, SAE, December 2010
2. CSE International Ltd "Preliminary Assessment of Linux for Safety-Related Systems" HSE Research Report 011, 2002 3. CAA “Assessment
of an Operating System”, Origin Consulting 2003 Articles in journals 1.
Burns, N. Zhang and M. Nicholson, "Pipelined Processors and
Worst Case Execution Times,"Real-Time System Journal, 5, pp 319-343 Oct.
1993 2.
P. Fenelon, J. A. McDermid, M. Nicholson and D. J. Pumfrey,
"Towards Integrated Safety Analysis and Design," ACM
Applied Computing Review, pp 1-14, Aug. 1994 Papers
published in refereed conference proceedings A.
Burns, M. Nicholson, K. Tindall and N.Zhang, "Allocating and
Scheduling Hard Real-Time Tasks on a Point-to-Point Distributed System,"
Proceedings of the Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Real-Time Systems,
Newport Beach, California, USA, pp 11-17, Apr 1993 1.
JA McDermid, M Nicholson, P Fenelon and D J Pumfrey,
(1995), in COMPASS '95: Proceedings of the 10th Annual Conference
on Computer Assurance, Gaithersburg, MD, pp. 37-48, IEEE, ISBN
0-7803-2680-2. 2.
M. Nicholson and D. Prasad, "Design Synthesis Using Adaptive
Search Techniques and Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis," presented at
2nd ICECCS, Hilton Hotel, Montreal, Canada, 1996 3.
M. Nicholson, P. Hollow and J. A. McDermid, "Approaches
to Certification of Reconfigurable IMA Systems", INCOSE 2000,
Minneapolis, USA, 17-20 July 2000 4.
M. Nicholson, P. Conmy, I. Bate and J. McDermid, "Generating
and maintaining a Safety Argument for Integrated Modular Systems"
5th AustralianWorkshop on Safety Critical Systems and Software, Institution
of Engineers Australia, 21 Bedford Street, North Melbourne, Victoria,
AUSTRALIA 24 November 2000, 31 - 41 5.
M. Nicholson "Supporting
design Synthesis for Safety-Critical Systems" GECCO03, Chicago, USA,
July 03 6.
P. Conmy, M. Nicholson, Y.
Purwantoro, J.A. Mcdermid J.A. "Safety
Analysis and Certification of Open Distributed Systems", ICCS
2002 7.
J.A. McDermid and M. Nicholson "Extending
PSSA for Complex Systems", ISSC Ottawa, August 2003 8.
P. Conmy, M. Nicholson "Identifying
Safety Dependencies in Modular Computer Systems", ISSC Ottawa,
August 2003 9.
R. Pierce, M. Nicholson, A. Faulkner "Assessing
Operating Systems for Safety Related Applications", ISSC Ottawa
August 2003 10.
P.Conmy, M. Nicholson, J. McDermid, "Safety
Assurance Contracts for Integrated Modular Avionics", 8th Australian
Workshop on Safety Critical Systems and Software, Canberra, CRPIT Vol 33, pp
69-78, October 2003. 11.
G. Jolliffe and M. Nicholson "Exploring
the Possibilities Towards a Preliminary Saftey Case for IMA Blueprints",
System Safety Symposium, Southampton, February, Springer-verlag, 2005 12.
M. Nicholson, "Health
Monitoring for Reconfigurable Integrated Control Systems" System
Safety Symposium, Southampton, Springer-verlag, February 2005 13.
G. Jolliffe and M. Nicholson "Exploring the
Possibilities Towards a Preliminary Saftey Case for IMA Blueprints",
Proceedings Of The 23rd International System Safety Conference, San Diego
U.S.A., August 22-26 2005 14.
Zoë Stephenson, Mark Nicholson, John McDermid "Product-Line
Technology Recommendations for Integrated Modular Systems",
Proceedings Of The 23rd International System Safety Conference, San Diego
U.S.A., August 22-26 2005 15.
Zoë Stephenson, Mark Nicholson, John McDermid "Flexibility
and Manageability of IMS Projects", Proceedings Of The 24th
International System Safety Conference, U.S.A., August 2006 16.
Andrew Evans and Mark Nicholson, “Safety Assessment and Certification
for UAS”, 22nd International UAV Systems Conference, 16 – 18 April
2007 17.
Adrian Hill and Mark Nicholson, “Safety tactics for Reconfigurable Process Control
Devices”, IET conference October 2009 18. Andrew Rae and Mark Nicholson, “Operational ALARP is Always Out of Reach”, IET
conference October 2009 19. Andrew Rae, Mark Nicholson and Robert Alexander,
“Matching Research Goals and Methods in System Safety Engineering”, 5th IET International System Safety
Conference. Manchester, UK, October 2010. The Institution of
Engineering and Technology 20. Robert Alexander, Andrew Rae and Mark Nicholson
“”The state of practice in system safety research evaluation,”, 5th IET International System Safety
Conference. Manchester, UK, October 2010. The Institution of
Engineering and Technology. PhD Students Technical Supervisor: 3 students Official Supervisor: 2 students MSc Students Projects [ all by industrial students] MSc
SCSE Projects completed by students since 2000 25 1.
S. D. Nucci [2000] Software
Safety and Supportability Analysis 2.
G. Jolliffe [2004] Exploring the
Possibilities Towards a Preliminary Safety Case for IMA Blueprints 3.
R. Barraclough [2005] Human
Factors Contracts for Safety Critical Systems 4.
K. 5.
D. Huw Morgan [2005]
Integration Modelling of Process Industry Safety Initiatives 6.
A. Eaton [2005] Evaluating safety related image integrity over visual
communication systems 7.
D. H. Gower [2006] Assessing
the Use of a Safety and Support Questionnaire in Support of a Service
Modification Process 8.
A. Evans [2006] The Hazards of
Unmanned Air Vehicle Integration into Unsegregated Airspace 9.
10.
M. Salter [2006] Managing
Operational Safety Case in High-Risk Systems 11.
D. J. Pritchard [2007] Tool
Qualification, A Generic Argument for safe application of tools to a Safety
Critical Software Project 12.
A. Hill [2008] Safety Tactics for Reconfigurable Process
Control Devices 13.
C. J. Hodson [2008] Civil
Airworthiness for a UAV Control Station 14.
C. Hollinshead [2008] Using
Safety Contracts to Identify Regression Tests for Modular Systems 15.
A.Wake [2008] Safety of Data in
Real-Time Distributed Systems 16.
A. Scott [2009]
Environmental and Human Health Risk Management: A preliminary investigation
into tools to aid conflict identification and management 17.
A. Armstrong [2009] Development
of a Methodology for Deriving Safety Metrics for UAV Operational Safety
Performance Measurement 18.
R. Boyd [2009] Software
Lifecycle Model Selection Criteria for Safety-Critical Software 19.
M. Remnant [2009] The
Application of Sneak Analysis To Safety Critical FPGAs 20. J. Beer [2010] The True Significance of Common Cause
Failures in Accidents 21. S. Collins [2010] A Behavioural Assessment Process
for the Substantiation of Practitioner Competency Claims in Safety Arguments 22. J. Palmer [2010] Interface Contracts between Safety
Management Systems 23. D. Sexton [2010] A Process for the Evaluation of V
& V Workflows for Ensuring that Automatically Generated Code Matches the
Input from Model Based Design MSC
GTC projects 1.
Mohammed Ahmed [2010] Selecting a Technology for a
Computing Core in an Aerospace Electronic Engine Controller 2. J. Tullett
[2020] Lessons Learnt Approaches used
in Gas Turbine Control Applications All
students who attend a “taster” module, and/or undertake the assessment attached
to a module, on the CPD MSc’s in the Department are supervised by myself. Industrial collaboration Consultancy and Advice: ·
Advice to a UAV company 2009 ·
Advice to company providing an information system
for logistic support to UK MOD (2008) ·
Advice to Automotive company selling vehicles to
the UK MoD (2007) ·
Advice to IAWG
group looking at introduction of Modular Safety Cases on issues such as
real-time blueprints (2006) ·
Member (Secretary) of WG63
looking at rewriting ARP 4754 / ARP 4761 (ED-79/ ED-135) on “Complex Aircraft
Systems” which forms the basis of the approved means of compliance process
for the Airbus A380 and the Boeing 787 projects, (2003 – present,
2008-present) · System mappings and system blueprints for Integrated Modular Systems. BAE SYSTEMS (2004) · Extending PSSA for ATC environments, Eurocontrol (2004) ·
PAMELA and VICTORIA
projects looking at safety aspects of introduction of modular avionics (2000
– 2004) ·
CAA / MoD / HSE funded projects into assessment of
off the shelf operating systems for use in safety-critical systems (2001 -
2003) ·
Airbus work on modular avionics for the A380 (2000
to 2004) · DTI and EPSRC funded research work with industrial partners into hard-real time and safety critical systems. (1991 to 1998) Administration and Management 1.
Departmental
administrative posts ·
Co-ordinator
MSc in Safety Critical Systems (2004 – present) ·
Admissions
Tutor MSc in Safety Critical Systems (2004 – present) ·
Coordinator
of the Continuing Professional Development MSc’s (2005 – 2007) ·
Member
of Masters Teaching Committee in the Department of Computer Science ·
Member
of BoS and BoE This is
administration of a CPD part-time masters programme with all students being
from industry. Administrative overheads are high due to the non-standard
nature of the course. Co-ordination of content is made complex by the rapidly
changing nature of the field and the short-fat intensive teaching style of
the course. ·
Co-ordinator
of MSc in Gas Turbine Control (2005- 2007) ·
Admission
Tutor of MSc in Gas Turbine Control (2005 – 2007) Administrative
issues with the Gas Turbine Control MSc revolve around the liaison with the
sponsoring companies (Rolls-Royce and Goodrich) and the coordination
activities with the 2.
University
administrative posts ·
Secretary
of the Founding
member of the forum. Keeping minutes of meetings and keeping the web site up
to date. The forum and University were successful in obtaining grant money
for a full time CPD officer. She has now taken over running the forum. Other Departmental Responsibilities 1.
Holder of First Aid at Work Certificate and listed as a First Aider
in the Department (2002 – present) 2.
Designated fire-warden for part of the building 3.
Co-organiser of the Departments “tea-club” which currently spends
£10,000p.a. Leisure Activities 1.
Technical Theatre work for Paradise
Green Promotions at the 2.
Technical Theatre and stage management for York Light Opera Company (1999 to present).
I have been involved in shows at the Theatre Royal, Rowntrees theatre,
Kirkgate Theatre in 3.
Travelling abroad is fun so I have done lots of it. Since 2000 I have
been to France, Austria, Switzerland, Malta, Germany, Jersey, Australia, New
Zealand, USA, Luxembourg, Greece, Netherlands, Russia, Brazil etc 4.
I also like staying in old houses so have stayed in a number of Landmark Trust houses. 5.
Whenever possible I try to do cycling, swimming and Yoga. Of course
as time goes by it is less than I would like. |
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