Jane Hillston
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Born | 1963 (age 57–58) |
Alma mater | University of York (B.A. 1985) Lehigh University (M.Sc. 1987) University of Edinburgh (Ph.D. 1994) |
Known for | PEPA |
Awards | Roger Needham Award (2004), Suffrage Science Award (2018) |
Scientific career | |
Institutions | University of Edinburgh |
Thesis | A Compositional Approach to Performance Modelling (1994) |
Doctoral advisor | Robert J. Pooley Julian Bradfield[1] |
Jane Elizabeth Hillston (born 1963) is British professor of Quantitative Modelling and Head of School in the School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, Scotland.[2]
Early life and education[]
Hillston received a BA in Mathematics from the University of York in 1985, an MSc in Mathematics from Lehigh University in the United States in 1987 and a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Edinburgh in 1994,[3] where she has spent her subsequent academic career. Her PhD thesis was awarded the BCS/ Distinguished Dissertation Awards in 1995 and has been published by Cambridge University Press.[4]
Research and career[]
She has been an EPSRC Research Fellow (1994–1995), Lecturer (1995–2001), Reader (2001–2006) and Professor of Quantitative Modelling since 2006. Hillston is a member of the Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science at Edinburgh.[5] In 2018 she was appointed Head of the School of Informatics at Edinburgh,[6] taking over from Johanna Moore.
Jane Hillston is known for her work on stochastic process algebras. In particular, she has developed the PEPA process algebra, and helped develop Bio-PEPA, which is based on the earlier PEPA algebra and is specifically aimed at analyzing biochemical networks.[7][8]
Hillston serves in the editorial board of Logical Methods in Computer Science; Elsevier Theoretical Computer Science, as one of the editors in the area of Theory of Natural Computing,[9] and as an Associate Editor of ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation (TOMACS).[10]
Awards[]
In 2004, she received the first Roger Needham Award at the Royal Society in London[11][12] awarded yearly for a distinguished research contributor in computer research by a UK-based researcher within ten years of their PhD.[13] In March 2007 she was elected to the fellowship of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.[14][15] In 2018, Hillston was elected the membership of the Academia Europaea.[16] In 2018 she was a recipient of the Suffrage Science Award for Computer Science.[17]
She led the University of Edinburgh School of Informatics in applying for an Athena SWAN Award,[18] which they subsequently achieved silver in.[19] The award shows that the department provides a "supportive environment" for female students.
References[]
- ^ Jane Hillston at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ "Jane Hillston". School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh. Retrieved 4 March 2020.
- ^ Jane, Hillston (1994). Compositional approach to performance modelling (Thesis). hdl:1842/15027.
- ^ Hillston, Jane (1996). A Compositional Approach to Performance Modelling. Cambridge Core. doi:10.1017/cbo9780511569951. hdl:1842/15027. ISBN 9780521571890. Retrieved 3 March 2020.
- ^ "Jane Hillston". The Royal Society. The Royal Society. Retrieved 13 October 2015.
- ^ "Contact us". University of Edinburgh School of Informatics. 11 September 2018. Retrieved 11 September 2018.
- ^ Jane Hillston; Federica Ciocchetta (August 2009). Bio-PEPA: A framework for the modelling and analysis of biological systems.
- ^ "Bio-PEPA". School of Informatics, Edinburgh University. Retrieved 13 October 2015.
- ^ Theoretical Computer Science Editorial Board.
- ^ "TOMACS Editorial Board". dl.acm.org. Retrieved 10 May 2020.
- ^ Dr Jane Hillston : Past winners : Roger Needham Award : BCS, British Computer Society, 2004.
- ^ "Edinburgh academic scoops BCS award with glitch predictor model". ComputerWeekly.com. Retrieved 10 May 2020.
- ^ "Roger Needham Award and Lecture | Awards and competitions | Events | BCS - The Chartered Institute for IT". www.bcs.org. Retrieved 27 October 2016.
- ^ Professor Jane Hillston Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, University of Edinburgh School of Informatics, 2007.
- ^ Fellows Elected March 2007 — Induction Images, The Royal Society of Edinburgh, 2007.
- ^ "Academy of Europe: Hillston Jane". www.ae-info.org. Retrieved 4 March 2020.
- ^ "M&C AWARDEES". suffragescience. Retrieved 4 March 2020.
- ^ "Athena SWAN Charter". Equality Challenge Unit.
- ^ "Informatics gains Silver Athena Swan Award". University of Edinburgh. Archived from the original on 10 September 2015. Retrieved 13 October 2015.
External links[]
- Jane Hillston's home page
- Official web page
- LFCS web page
- Jane Hillston at DBLP Bibliography Server
- 1963 births
- Living people
- British computer scientists
- Formal methods people
- Alumni of the University of York
- Lehigh University alumni
- Alumni of the University of Edinburgh
- Academics of the University of Edinburgh
- Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
- Members of Academia Europaea
- British women computer scientists