I currently supervise the following researchers (all with Dimitris Kolovos):

• Thanos Zolotas, RA on the SECT-AIR project.
• Kostas Barmpis, RA on the CROSSMINER project.
• Simos Gerasimou, RA on the Technical Obsolescence project with Dstl.
• Horacio Hoyos Rodriguez, RA on the SECT-AIR project.
• (coming soon) at least 4 more RAs working on projects with Smith and Nephew, IBM and the EU.

I have supervised the following researchers in the past:

• Xiaocheng Ge, RA on the exGrid and LSCITS projects, 2004-2012.
• Malcolm Wallace, RA on the DARP HIRTS project, 2002-2005.
• Jovan Cakic, RA on the eXGrid e-Science project, 2004-2006.
• Alek Radjenovic, RA on the DARP HIRTS project, INESS and MADES projects 2002-2012.
• Philippa Conmy, RA on the DARP HIRTS project, 2002-2006.
• Dimitris Kolovos, RA on the MODELWARE and MODELPLEX projects, 2004-2009.
• Louis Rose, RA on the INESS project, 2010.
• Osmar Santos, RA on the INESS project, 2008-2010.
• James Williams, RA on the OSSMETER FP7 project.
• Seyyed Shah, Senior RA on the MONDO FP7 project.
• Nikos Matragkas, Senior RA on the MADES and OSSMETER projects, 2009-2015.
• Will Wei, RA on the MONDO project, 2013-2016.
• Antonio Garcia-Dominguez, RA on the MONDO project, 2015-2016.

PhD Students

I have supervised the following excellent PhD students who have survived.

• Raman Ramsin (graduated 2006), thesis on engineering object-oriented methodologies. Now an assistant  professor at Sharif University.
• Mohd Syazwan Abdullah (graduated 2006), thesis on UML profiles for knowledge-based engineering. Now an assistant professor at UU Malaysia.
• Alek Radjenovic (graduated 2009), thesis on architectural modelling and view consistency. Now a senior software engineer at the NHS.
• Dimitrios Kolovos (defended 2008), on model management. Now a lecturer at York.
• Xiaocheng Ge (graduated 2009), thesis on agile web security. Now a Research and Teaching Fellow at York.
• Chris Holmes (graduated 2009), thesis on generative approaches to product-line engineering. Now a researcher at Logica.
• Nikos Matragkas (graduated 2011) thesis on traceability in MDE (co-supervised with Kiran Fernandes). Now an RA at York
• Louis Rose (graduated 2011), thesis on model-driven evolution (co-supervised with Fiona Polack). Now a lecturer at York.
• Malihe Tabatabaie (graduated 2012), thesis on goal-based approaches for building enterprise systems (co-supervised with Fiona Polack). Now a software engineer at System Simulation, London.
• Lishan Harbird (graduated 2012), thesis on refinement patterns for contractual statecharts (co-supervised with Andy Galloway).
• Jason Reich (graduated 2014), thesis on verification techniques for compilers (co-supervised with Colin Runciman). Now a software engineer at IBM UK.
• James Williams (graduated 2014), thesis on search-based model-driven engineering (co-supervised with Fiona Polack). Now an RA in York.
• Dina Salah (graduated 2014), thesis on maturity models and bridges between user centred design and agile development (co-supervised with Paul Cairns). Now an RA at the Open University.
• Frank Burton (graduated 2015), thesis on MDE and search for decision making in heterogeneous environments (co-supervised with Simon Poulding). Now an engineer at SolarFlare, Cambridge, UK.
• Masoumeh Taromirad (graduated 2015), thesis on multi-domain traceability (co-supervised with Nikos Matragkas).
• Asmiza Abdul Sani (graduated 2015), thesis on verification of model transformations (co-supervised with Fiona Polack)
• Fatima Alkandari (graduated 2016), thesis on MDE for comparing cloud computing SLAs.
• Frank Soboczenski (graduated 2016), thesis on number entry errors in healthcare systems (co-supervised with Paul Cairns)
• Athanasios Zolotas (graduated 2017), thesis on flexible modelling in MDE (co-supervised with Nikos Matragkas)
• Adolfo Sanchez-Barbuda Herrera (graduated 2017), thesis on domain-specific languages for mapping concrete to abstract syntax (co-supervised with Ed Willink)

I currently supervise the following excellent PhD students who may (err.. are likely to) survive.

• Rafidah Pakir, working on MDE for capacity planning (co-supervised with Dimitris Kolovos)
• Martyn Ellison, an EngD student (with Science Warehouse) working on cloud migration (co-supervised with Radu Calinescu)
• Faisal Alhwikem (co-supervised with Rob Alexander), working on mutation testing and model transformations.
• Jon Co (co-supervised with Ian Gray), working on model-based engineering for real-time systems
• Nadhra Nasarudin (co-supervised with Chris Power)
• Anthony Cairns (part-time, co-supervised with Ibrahim Habli), working on healthcare and process/organisation improvement.
• Sina Madani (co-supervised with Dimitris Kolovos), working on parallel and distributed model management.
• Khaled Aldheiff (co-supervised with Radu Calinescu), working on MDE for process mining and modelling.
• Beatriz Sanchez Pina (co-supervised with Dimitris Kolovos - starting October 2017)
• Komsan Srivisut (co-supervised with John Clark), working on hyperheuristics.
• ... with three more PhD students to come

I am internal assessor for the following students.

• Xueyi Zou, PhD candidate (supervised by Rob Alexander and John McDermid).
• Bestoon Hussien, PhD candidate (supervised by Ibrahim Habli and Tim Kelly).
• Chris Leong, PhD candidate (supervised by Rob Alexander)

My mortal enemy is lack of sleep. I also fear bad chocolate, my cat, the Calamari Wrestler, the novels of Jacqueline Susann, and Dick Dastardly from Wacky Races.