Jane Hillston#
| Membership Number: | 4747 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | INFORMATICS |
| Elected: | 2018 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/jeh |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2018 - present Head of School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh
- 2016 - 2018 Deputy Head of School and Director of Research, School of Informatics
- 2011 - 2014 Director of the Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science.
- 2006 - present Professor of Quantitative Modelling, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh
- 2001 - 2006 Reader, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh
- 1995 - 2001 Lecturer, School of Informatics, The University of Edinburgh
- 1994 - 1995 EPSRC Postdoctoral Research Fellow
- 1989 - 1991 Research Associate, Department of Computer Science, The University of Edinburgh
- 1988 - 1989 Research Officer in Information Systems, Kingston Business School, Kingston-upon-Thames
- 1987 - 1988 Consultant/Business Analyst, Logica Financial Systems Ltd., London
- 1985 - 1986 Teaching Assistant, Department of Mathematics, Lehigh University, USA
Fields of Scholarship
- Probabilistic models of dynamic behaviour
- Process Algebras and their applications
- Computer simulation
- Formal approaches to systems biology
- Probabilistic verification
- Performance modelling
Honours and Awards
- 2013 - 2017 Coordinator of QUANTICOL: A Quantitative Approach to Management and Design of Collective and Adaptive Behaviours, an EU FET-IST FOCAS project (IST-600780)
- 2007 Elected to Fellowship of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
- 2005 BCS/Microsoft Roger Needham Award in 2005. The Roger Needham Award is made annually for a distinguished research contribution in computer science by a UK based researcher who has completed up to 10 years of post-doctoral research.
- 2005 Elected to Fellowship of the British Computer Society
- 1995 BCS/CPHC Distinguished Dissertation Award in for PhD thesis, “A Compositional Approach to Performance Modelling”.
