Sir Anthony Finkelstein - Biography#

Anthony Finkelstein is Professor of Software Systems Engineering at University College London (UCL) and Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (FREng) and of the City & Guilds of London Institute (FCGI). He is currently Dean of UCL Faculty of Engineering Sciences and Senior Dean UCL School of Engineering, Mathematics, Physical Sciences & the Built Environment (BEAMS). He was formerly Head of UCL Department of Computer Science. He is a Visiting Professor at Imperial College London and at the National Institute for Informatics, Tokyo, Japan. He has been appointed to the Council of the Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council. He has secured more than £30m of research funding. He is a Fellow of both the Institution of Engineering & Technology (IET) and the British Computer Society (BCS). In 2009 he received the Oliver Lodge Medal of the IET for achievement in Information Technology. He has been recognised for contributions to the field of requirements engineering and for professional service by the IEEE and ACM. He was a winner of the International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) 'most influential paper' prize recognising the influence of his work over an extended period and also received a ‘special contribution’ award from ICSE. He has served on numerous editorial boards including that of ACM TOSEM and IEEE TSE, and was founder editor of Automated Software Engineering. He also chaired and presented keynote talks at numerous international meetings. He is a member of the 2008 & 2014 UK research assessment panels. He has consulted to a large number of companies and government organisations receiving an institutional honour for contributions to knowledge transfer. He established three successful ‘spinouts’ providing respectively professional services, product software and an innovative software service. He serves on the Board of UCL Business. He is committed to engineering education and has organised national and international events for students.