Anthony Finkelstein

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Anthony Finkelstein

CBE FREng
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Born
Anthony Charles Wiener Finkelstein

(1959-07-28) 28 July 1959 (age 64)
London, England
Alma mater
Known for Requirements engineering software development processes
Children2
Awards CBE FREng FCGI MAE CEng CITP FBCS FIET DSc
Scientific career
Fields
Institutions Imperial College London University College London Government of the United Kingdom City, University of London [1]
Thesis The application of information systems analysis to the activity of the design of complex systems  (1985)
Doctoral advisor L. Bruce Archer [3]
Website finkelstein.uk OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg

Sir Anthony Charles Wiener Finkelstein CBE FREng [4] (born 28 July 1959 [1] ) is a British engineer and computer scientist. He is the President of City, University of London. He was Chief Scientific Adviser for National Security to HM Government until 2021. [5]

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Education and early life

Anthony Finkelstein was born on 28 July 1959. He was educated at University College School, the University of Bradford (BEng), the London School of Economics (MSc) and the Royal College of Art (PhD, 1985). [6]

Career and research

Finkelstein's scientific work is in the broad area of software development tools and processes. [2] [7] [8] [9] [10] He has also worked on applications of systems modelling in the life sciences.

He was appointed President of City, University of London in June 2021. He is a member of Council of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) and Chair of the Police Science Council established by the National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC).

He was Chief Scientific Adviser for National Security to HM Government from 2015 until 2021. This is a senior role, associated with the Government Office for Science (GOScience) and working across the UK's national security community. [11] During his tenure in post Finkelstein retained a chair in Software Systems Engineering at University College London (UCL) and a Fellowship at the Alan Turing Institute of which he was a Founder Trustee.

Prior to his government role, Finkelstein was the Head of UCL Computer Science and then Dean of the UCL Faculty of Engineering Sciences. He served on the editorial boards of ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology and IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering . He was appointed in 2013 as a Member of Council of the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) by the then Minister for Universities and Science, David Willetts. [12] He was appointed as the UK government's Chief Scientific Adviser for National Security in December 2015. [13]

Finkelstein is a visiting professor at Imperial College London, [14] at the University of South Australia and formerly at the National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo, Japan. He was until 2022 a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Singapore National Research Foundation and previously served on the Board of the NHS Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital (RNOH).

Honours and awards

Finkelstein is an elected Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering [4] (FREng). [15] He is also an elected Member of Academia Europaea and a Fellow of the City and Guilds of London Institute. He is a Distinguished Fellow of the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI). He is a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) and the British Computer Society (BCS).

In 2009 he received the Oliver Lodge Medal of the IET for achievement in Information Technology. [16] In 2013 he received the Outstanding Service Award from the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP). [17]

Finkelstein was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2016 Birthday Honours for services to computer science and engineering [18] and was knighted in the 2022 New Year Honours for public service. [19]

Personal life

He is a grandson of Alfred Wiener, founder of the Wiener Library and a brother of the peer, Lord Daniel Finkelstein OBE, associate editor of The Times [20] and brother of Tamara Finkelstein CB, Permanent Secretary at Defra. [21]

His late father, Ludwik Finkelstein (FREng OBE), was a Professor Emeritus of Measurement and Instrumentation at City University.[ citation needed ] He is married and has two sons.[ citation needed ]

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  3. ↑ Anthony Finkelstein at the Mathematics Genealogy Project OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
  4. 1 2 "List of Fellows". Raeng.org.uk. Retrieved 7 December 2015.
  5. ↑ "Anthony Finkelstein". GOV.UK. Retrieved 28 July 2021.
  6. ↑ Finkelstein, Anthony Charles Wiener (1985). The application of information systems analysis to the activity of the design of complex systems (PhD thesis). Royal College of Art. OCLC   499200161.
  7. ↑ Nuseibeh, B.; Kramer, J.; Finkelstein, A. (1994). "A framework for expressing the relationships between multiple views in requirements specification". IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering. 20 (10): 760–773. CiteSeerX   10.1.1.1.7488 . doi:10.1109/32.328995. S2CID   492232.
  8. ↑ Anthony Finkelstein at DBLP Bibliography Server OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
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  10. ↑ Gotel, O.C.Z.; Finkelstein, C.W. (1994). "An analysis of the requirements traceability problem". Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Requirements Engineering. pp. 94–101. CiteSeerX   10.1.1.201.7137 . doi:10.1109/ICRE.1994.292398. ISBN   978-0-8186-5480-0. S2CID   5870868.
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  12. ↑ "EPSRC ANNOUNCES NEW COUNCIL MEMBERS". Archived from the original on 29 October 2013.
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  14. ↑ Finkelstein, A.; Kramer, J.; Nuseibeh, B.; Finkelstein, L.; Goedicke, M. (1992). "Viewpoints: A Framework for Integrating Multiple Perspectives in System Development". International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering. 02 (1): 31–57. CiteSeerX   10.1.1.45.6838 . doi:10.1142/S0218194092000038. ISSN   0218-1940. S2CID   37921638.
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  16. ↑ "Recipients of the IET Achievement Medals". IET Scholarships and Awards. IET. Retrieved 25 April 2011.
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  18. ↑ "No. 61608". The London Gazette (Supplement). 11 June 2016. p. B9.
  19. ↑ "No. 63571". The London Gazette (Supplement). 1 January 2022. p. N2.
  20. ↑ "JC Power 100: Numbers 50 – 11", The Jewish Chronicle, 10 September 2014
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