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 of Professor of Software Engineering in 2006.
