Professor Jeff Magee, Dean of the Faculty of Engineering and a Professor here in DoC has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering.

The Royal Academy of Engineering is the UK’s national academy of engineering and brings together the most successful and talented engineers from across the engineering sectors for a shared purpose: to advance and promote excellence in engineering.

The Fellows of the Royal Academy of Engineering consist of distinguished engineers from across the sectors and disciplines, who lead, guide and contribute to the Academy’s work and provide expertise. Election to The Academy is by invitation only. They are distinguished by the title 'Fellow of The Royal Academy of Engineering' and the designatory letters 'FREng'.

Professor Jeff Magee FREng  is Principal of the Faculty of Engineering and has over 30 years' experience of computer science research. He first joined the department in 1977 as an MSc student and was appointed a lecturer here in 1984; the same year as he achieved his PhD. He was promoted to professor in 1999 and became Head of the Department in 2004.

He was elected a Fellow of the British Computer Society in 2005 and was the co-recipient of the ACM Special Interest Group on Software Engineering Outstanding Research Award for his work in Distributed Software Engineering.

A member of our Distributed Systems Engineering group, his research is concerned with the software engineering of self-adaptive and distributed systems, including design methods, analysis techniques, operating systems, languages and program support environments for these systems.  His work on software architecture was put to commercial use by Phillips in consumer television products. His work with industry also includes collaborations with BP, BT, NATS, Fujitsu, Barclays Capital, QinetiQ, and Kodak.

He is the author of over 100 refereed publications and has co-authored a book on concurrent programming entitled 'Concurrency - State models and Java programs' which is now in its 2nd Edition and has sold over 15,000 copies. He was co-editor of the 'Institute of Electrical Engineering’s Proceedings on Software Engineering' and until 2007 was Associate Editor of 'Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology'. He is the co-recipient of the 2005 ACM Special Interest Group on Software Engineering Outstanding Research Award for his work in Distributed Software Engineering.

Congratulations Jeff on your very well deserved achievement.