Research in computational
modelling and automated reasoning for concurrent, communicating systems,
especially sensor-based systems. Model-checking, process algebras,
probabilistic systems, protocols and telecommunications services, biochemical
networks and cell signalling, safety-critical systems.
Member of Prime Minister's Council for Science and Technology, REF 2021 Main Panel B, and chair of BCS School Curriculum and Assessment Committee.
Past Chief Scientific Adviser for Scotland (Scottish
Government), co-chair of SSAC
(Scottish Science Advisory Council) (2012-2015), co-Chair of EU FET Science
Advisory Group (2014-15), and chair of DCMS Science Advisory Council. Past
member of UKRI-EPSRC
Council (2015-2020), member of Nurse Review of Research Councils (2015),
Dean of Research in College of Science and Engineering (2010-2012), Senate
Assessor (2009-2011), Chair of UKCRC (UK
Computing Research Committee) (2008-2010), Head of Computing Science
(2003-2007).
Past external examiner at
University of Manchester, Warwick, St. Andrews, Edinburgh, and NUI Cork.
Royal Society Leverhulme
Research Senior Fellow (2011-2012) and Royal Society Wolfson Merit Research
Award (2011-2016). 2016 Suffrage Science award winner in Computing
Science and Mathematics.
Principal Investigator of the S4 EPSRC Programme Grant S4: Science of Sensor System
Software . Report from our 2020 research retreat .
RSE
Women in Science Online Portrait 2022
Imagine the Pandemic Without Computer Science YouTube video
Computing is too important to be left to men Twitter video
Selected
recent publications:
Privacy Intrusion and National Security in the Age of
AI: assessing proportionality of automated analytics. CETaS Research Reports, May 2023.
Probabilistic
Bigraphs Formal Aspects of Computing, Vol. 34,
Issue 2, ACM, 2022. DOI
Modelling
and verifying BDI agents with bigraphs Science
of Computer Programming, 2022.
Stochastic model
checking for predicting component failures and service availability IEEE
Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, vol. 16:1, 2019. DOI
Making Sense of the World:
Framing Models for Trustworthy Sensor-Driven Systems Computers, 7(4), 62,
2018. DOI
Data-driven modelling and
probabilistic analysis of interactive software usage Journal of Logical and
Algebraic Methods in Programming, vol. 100, 2018. DOI
Computational
modelling for decision-making: where, why, what, who, and how Royal Society
Open Science 5:172096, 2018. DOI
Orcid number: 0000-0001-5033-7232
Links
Current/Recent Research Projects
- Science
of Sensor System Software EPSRC programme
grant
- Multi-Perspective
Design of IoT Cybersecurity in Ground and Aerial Vehicles EPSRC Petras project
- Royal Society
Leverhulme Research Senior Fellowhip: Live
formal models for predictable pervasive systems Royal Society-funded
- A
Population Approach to Ubiqcomp System Designs EPSRC
programme grant
- Royal Society
Wolfson Award Royal Society-funded
- VPS: Verifying
Interoperability Requirements in Pervasive Systems EPSRC-funded
- Homework: Shaping
Future User Domestic Infrastructure EPSRC-funded
- SIGNAL:
Stochastic process algebra for biochemical signalling pathways EPSRC-funded
- Stochastic Process Algebra for Oxidative Stress. Lord
Kelvin/ Adam Smith research studentship
- Molecular Nose EPSRC-funded
- BPS:
A Software Tool for the Simulation and Analysis of Biochemical Networks DTI-Funded.
- Computer Science
Inside EPSRC-funded
- Veriscope: Verification of
Similar Concurrent Processes EPSRC-funded
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