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Jim Davies

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Professor Jim Davies CITP
Professor of Software Engineering
Director, Software Engineering Programme
Governing Body Fellow, Kellogg College
jim.davies@cs.ox.ac.uk
44 1865 283521
44 1865 283531 (fax)

Room 461, Wolfson Building, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3QD

Interests

Jim directs a programme of advanced, professional education in software engineering, teaching advanced techniques to people working full-time in industry.  He is leading the development of semantics-driven technology for medical research and electronic governance, and a related programme of work into the automatic generation of systems from re-usable models of structure and functionality. 

Biography

Jim studied mathematics at New College, Oxford, joining the Computing Laboratory (now Department of Computer Science) in 1986 for a Masters' and doctorate. After working as a researcher and lecturer in computer science, at Oxford and Reading, 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. 

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The CancerGrid Project

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SBMF 2012: Brazilian Symposium on Formal Methods, Natal , Programme Committee, Steering Group

IFM 2012: Integrated Formal Methods, Programme Committee

RAISE 2012: Realising AI Synergies in Software Engineering, Zurich , Programme Committee

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Prime Minister joins Sir Ka-shing Li for launch of £90m initiative in big data and drug discovery at Oxford

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Selected Publications

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The CancerGrid Experience: Metadata−Based Model−Driven Engineering for Clinical Trials

Jim Davies‚ Jeremy Gibbons‚ Steve Harris and Charles Crichton

In Science of Computer Programming. March, 2013.

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Machine Learning and Software Engineering in Health Informatics

David A. Clifton‚ Jeremy Gibbons‚ Jim Davies and Lionel Tarassenko

May, 2012.

Model−driven Engineering of Information Systems: 10 years and 1000 versions

Jim Davies‚ Jeremy Gibbons‚ James Welch and Edward Crichton

In Science of Computer Programming. February, 2013.

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Mohammed Aboulsamh
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Aadya Shukla
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James Welch