Anthony Finkelstein

Who is Anthony Finkelstein?

Anthony Charles Wiener Finkelstein is a British software engineer, a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, a Member of Academia Europaea and a Fellow of the City and Guilds of London Institute. He is Professor of Software Systems Engineering at University College London and Dean of the UCL Faculty of Engineering Sciences. He was appointed in 2013 as a Member of Council of the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council by the Minister for Universities and Science, David Willetts, MP. He is a Visiting Professor at Imperial College London and at the National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo, Japan. He is a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology and the British Computer Society. In 2009 he received the Oliver Lodge Medal of the IET for achievement in Information Technology. In 2013 he received the Outstanding Service Award from the International Federation for Information Processing.

He was educated at University College School, the University of Bradford, the London School of Economics and the Royal College of Art.

His scientific work is in the broad area of software development tools and processes. He has also worked on applications of systems modelling in the life sciences. He has served on the editorial boards of ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology and IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, and was founder editor of Automated Software Engineering.