Michael Hinchey

Michael G. Hinchey is an Irish computer scientist and Director at the Irish Software Engineering Research Centre Lero, University of Limerick, Ireland.^[1]

Mike Hinchey studied at the University of Limerick as an undergraduate (was the leading student in his graduating year^[2]), Oxford University (at Wolfson College) for his MSc and Cambridge University (at St John's College) for his PhD.^[3]

Hinchey has been a promulgator of formal methods throughout his career, especially CSP and the Z notation. He was Director of the Software Engineering Laboratory at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and is the founding editor-in-chief of the NASA journal Innovations in Systems and Software Engineering, launched in 2005.

He has held numerous visiting professorships both visiting and permanent, in a number of universities including the University of Nebraska, Queen's University Belfast, New Jersey Institute of Technology (Assistant Professor^[4]) and the Skövde University College in Sweden and was at Loyola College in Maryland, USA, before his current post.

He is a Fellow of the IET, a Fellow of the IMA, and a Senior Member of the IEEE.

Selected publications

Hinchey, M.G. and Bowen, J.P., editors, Applications of Formal Methods. Prentice Hall International Series in Computer Science, 1995. ISBN 0-13-366949-1.
Dean, C.N. and Hinchey, M.G., editors, Teaching and Learning Formal Methods, Academic Press, London, 1996. ISBN 0-12-349040-5.
Bowen, J.P. and Hinchey, M.G., editors, High-Integrity System Specification and Design. Springer-Verlag, London, FACIT series, 1999. ISBN 3-540-76226-4.
Hinchey, M.G. and Bowen, J.P., editors, Industrial-Strength Formal Methods in Practice. Springer-Verlag, London, FACIT series, 1999. ISBN 1-85233-640-4.