Michael Gerard Hinchey (born 1969)[1] is an Irish computer scientist and former Director of the Irish Software Engineering Research Centre (Lero), a multi-university research centre headquartered at the University of Limerick, Ireland.[2][3] He now serves as Head of Department of the Department of Computer Science & Information Systems at University of Limerick.
Mike Hinchey studied at the University of Limerick as an undergraduate (was the leading student in his graduating year[2]), Oxford University (at Wolfson College) for his MSc and Cambridge University (at St John's College) for his PhD.[4]
Hinchey has been a promulgator of formal methods throughout his career, especially CSP and the Z notation. He was Director of the NASA Software Engineering Laboratory at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center[5] and is the founding editor-in-chief of the NASA journal Innovations in Systems and Software Engineering, launched in 2005.
He has held many academic positions, both visiting and permanent, at a number of universities including the University of Nebraska, Queen's University Belfast, New Jersey Institute of Technology,[6] Hiroshima University[citation needed] the University of Skövde in Sweden[2] and was at Loyola College in Maryland (now Loyola University Maryland), United States, before his current post.
Hinchey is a Member of Academia Europaea, a Fellow of the IET, a Fellow of the IMA, and a Senior Member of the IEEE.[citation needed] He is a Chartered Engineer, Chartered Professional Engineer, Chartered Mathematician and Chartered IT Professional.[citation needed]
As of 2016, Hinchey has been serving as President of IFIP (International Federation for Information Processing).[7][citation needed]
Selected publications
- Hinchey, M.G. and Bowen, J.P., editors, Applications of Formal Methods. Prentice Hall International Series in Computer Science, 1995. ISBN 0-13-366949-1.
- Dean, C.N. and Hinchey, M.G., editors, Teaching and Learning Formal Methods, Academic Press, London, 1996. ISBN 0-12-349040-5.
- Bowen, J.P. and Hinchey, M.G., editors, High-Integrity System Specification and Design. Springer-Verlag, London, FACIT series, 1999. ISBN 3-540-76226-4.
- Hinchey, M.G. and Bowen, J.P., editors, Industrial-Strength Formal Methods in Practice. Springer-Verlag, London, FACIT series, 1999. ISBN 1-85233-640-4.
References
- ^ "Hinchey, Michael G. (Michael Gerard) 1969–". WorldCat. Retrieved 12 December 2012.
- ^ a b c Lero appoint NASA expert Prof Mike Hinchey as co-director, Wayback Machine.
- ^ Directors, Lero, Ireland.
- ^ Hinchey, Michael G., countrybookshop.
- ^ "Mike Hinchey". Third NASA-Goddard/IEEE Workshop on Formal Approaches to Agent-Based Systems "FAABS III". 2011. Archived from the original on 8 April 2011. Retrieved 30 August 2016.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) - ^ 'NJIT-CIS: Graduate Project Information' Archived 2003-10-22 at the Wayback Machine, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA.
- ^ "IFIP Board". IFIP. Retrieved 2 April 2015.
External links
- Mike Hinchey web page
- Michael G. Hinchey at DBLP Bibliography Server
- Michael Hinchey publications indexed by Google Scholar
- Interview – The Irish Times
