Trustee, The Alan Turing Institute
Jane Hillston is a Professor of Quantitative Modelling, Dean of Research Culture and REF, and former Head of the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh. In March 2007 she was elected to the fellowship of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and in 2018, to the membership of the Academia Europaea. She is the recipient of the Suffrage Science Award for Computer Science and the RSE Lord Kelvin Medal. She was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 2022.
Jane is the first person to receive the three top awards from the British Computer Society – the Needham Award, the Distinguished Dissertation Award and recently the Lovelace Research Medal. She is known for her work on stochastic process algebras. In particular, she developed approaches to quantified verification, such as the PEPA process algebra, which support dynamic behaviour and resource use to be assessed.
Jane is a strong advocate for equality, diversity, and inclusion and in 2023, she was awarded an MBE for her services to computer science and women in science.
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