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I am a Senior Lecturer in the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh.
email:
Paul.Jackson (@) ed.ac.uk
address:
Room 2.12
Informatics Forum
10 Crichton Street
Edinburgh EH8 9AB
United Kingdom
phone:
[+44] (0)131 650 5131
fax:
[+44] (0)131 651 1426

Research

Interests

My research interests concern the development of formal verification tools and their application in such areas as hardware verification, software verification, robotics, systems biology and formalised mathematics.

Specific current interests include:

In the past, topics I have been interested in include: If you are looking to do a PhD and any of the above subject areas interest you, please get in touch; I would be happy to discuss possible PhD topics with you.

Publications, Reports and Talks

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Funding

Current: Recent:

Tools

Postgraduate Students

Current PhD student: Previous PhD students include

Professional Activities

Local Affiliations

Within the School of Informatics, I am a member of several research institutes: the Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science (LFCS), the Institute for Computing Systems Architecture (ICSA), and the Artificial Intelligence and its Applications Institute (AIAI).

Teaching

Courses

In the 2021-22 academic year I am teaching In the past, other courses I have taught include: The ISLI was the Institute for System-Level Integration, a venture run between 1999 and 2011 by 4 Scottish universities, including the University of Edinburgh, for the promotion of system-on-chip integrated circuit design.

Projects

Each year I supervise final-year undergraduate and MSc projects. Recent subjects of projects at Edinburgh include: Up till 2011 I supervised MSc projects at the Institute for System Level Integration. Projects included: I have also proposed project on such topics as which have not yet attracted takers. If you are looking for a project topic similar to any of the above, please get in touch.

Administration

My current administrative duties are:

Biography

Sep 11-present:
Senior Lecturer in Informatics at University of Edinburgh
Jan-Mar 03:
Visiting Fellow with the Computer Science Laboratory SRI International, Menlo Pk, California.
Apr 99-Aug 11:
Lecturer in Informatics at University of Edinburgh and in System Level Integration at Institute for System level Integration
98-Mar 99
Lecturer in Informatics at University of Edinburgh.
95-98
Research Fellow in Computer Science at University of Edinburgh.
88-95:
MS, PhD degrees and post-doc in Computer Science at Cornell University, Ithaca NY, USA. Most of this time I was involved with the Nuprl project.
86-88:
MS in Physics at Cornell University. Studied electron spin resonance in sapphire substrates using superconducting microstrip resonators.
84-86:
Designed application-specific ICs for US General Electric in North Carolina, USA.
81-84:
Undergraduate in Engineering at University of Cambridge, England. Electrical Sciences Tripos in 3rd year.

Paul Jackson
Last modified: Wed 24 Nov 2021