I direct a programme of advanced, professional education in software engineering, teaching advanced techniques to people working full-time in industry. I am leading the development of semantics-driven technology for cancer research informatics, as part of the UK CancerGrid project, and a related programme of work into the automatic generation of systems from re-usable models of structure and functionality. I am working on the application of these technologies and techniques in the area of electronic governance.
Jim Davies studied mathematics at New College, Oxford, joining the Computing Laboratory in 1986 for a Masters' and doctorate. After working as a researcher and lecturer in computer science, at Oxford, Reading, and Royal Holloway, University of London, he became a lecturer in software engineering at Oxford in 1995. He has led the Software Engineering Programme since 2000, and was made Professor of Software Engineering in 2006. He will be Senior Fellow of Kellogg College for the Academic Year 2008-09.
