Norman Elliott Fenton, BSc, MSc, PhD, MIEE, CEng, FIMA, CMath, FBCS

Summary CV

• Born 18 May 1956, London. Married, two children. British

• March 2000 - current: Professor of Computing Science, Queen Mary University of London. Head of RADAR (Risk Assessment and Decision Analysis Research) Group.  Norman is a renowned international expert in software measurement, software engineering and risk assessment. He has published 5 books and over 70 refereed papers. His book "Software Metrics: A Rigorous Approach"  has sold over 40,000 copies worldwide and is regarded as the leading text on software metrics. He has twice been named as one of the world’s 15 top scholars by the US Journal of Systems and Software.

• Jan 1998 - current: CEO of Agena Ltd, a  company specialising in risk assessment and measurement for critical systems. Exploiting recent innovations in Bayesian networks, Agena has rapidly become the leading provider of Bayesian net solutions and software, winning contracts with numerous leading companies concerned with developing and certifying critical systems (see www.agenarisk.com for details). 
  

• 1989-2000: Professor of Computing at CSR (Centre for Software Reliability), City University where he  played a key role in establishing CSR as the world’s leading research centre in software reliability and metrics.
• 1984-1989: Director of the CSSE (Centre for Systems and Software Engineering) at South Bank Polytechnic 
• 1982-1984:  Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Mathematics at Oxford University 
• 1981-1982: Research fellow in Mathematics at University College Dublin
  
• Principal investigator in many collaborative research projects (of total value greater than £5 million) since 1985.  
• Fellow of the BCS (British Computer Society), Member of the Institute of Electrical Engineers, Chartered Engineer, Fellow of the Institute of Mathematics and Applications, Chartered Mathematician, Member of the IEEE Computer Society

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