Perdita Emma Stevens (born 1966) is a British mathematician, theoretical computer scientist, and software engineer who holds a personal chair in the mathematics of software engineering as part of the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh. Her research includes work on model-driven engineering, including model transformation, model checking, and the Unified Modeling Language.
Education and career
Stevens read mathematics at the University of Cambridge, earning a bachelor's degree in 1987. She went to the University of Warwick for graduate study in abstract algebra, earning a master's degree in 1988 and completing a PhD in 1992. Her doctoral dissertation, Integral Forms for Weyl Modules of , was supervised by Sandy Green.
, was supervised by After working in industry as a software engineer, Stevens joined the Department of Computer Science at the University of Edinburgh in 1984. She became a reader there in 2003 and in 2014 was given a personal chair as Professor of Mathematics of Software Engineering.
Books
Stevens is the author of books including:
- Using UML: Software Engineering with Objects and Components (with Rob Pooley, Addison-Wesley, 1999; 2nd ed., 2006)
- How to Write Good Programs: A Guide for Students (Cambridge University Press, 2020)
References
- Birth year from Library of Congress catalog entry, retrieved 2023-01-11
- "Perdita Stevens", Staff, University of Edinburgh School of Informatics, retrieved 2023-01-11
- ^ "Perdita Stevens", Profiles, University of Edinburgh, retrieved 2023-01-11
- Perdita Stevens at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
External links
- Perdita Stevens publications indexed by Google Scholar
- Home page