Dr Neil Walkinshaw
School of Computer Science
Senior Lecturer in Testing
Inclusive Computing Lead (CIC)
Member of the Testing research group
Full contact details
School of Computer Science
Regent Court (DCS)
211 Portobello
Sheffield
S1 4DP
- Profile
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Dr Neil Walkinshaw studied his Ph.D. (2002-2005) at the University of Strathclyde on the use of static analysis to support software inspections. He subsequently spent five years (2005-2010) as a postdoc at the University of Sheffield, working on state machine inference and software testing (an area in which he is still active).
This was followed by 8 years as a Lecturer then Senior Lecturer / Associate Professor at the Department of Informatics at the University of Leicester. He took up his current position as a Senior Lecturer at the University of Sheffield in 2018.
- Research interests
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Dr Walkinshaw's research and teaching focus is on software quality assurance. His research has a particular emphasis on “black-box” components - software units that lack documentation and cannot be scrutinised internally.
He specialises in applying Machine Learning and other data analysis algorithms to the specific activities of testing, reverse-engineering, and safety-case assessment.
- Publications
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- Grants
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Research Grants
- CITCoM: Casual Inference for Testing of Computational Models, EPSRC, 01/2021 - 06/2025, £670,838, as PI
- StaMInA: A Novel Competition to Drive the Comparative Evaluation of State Machine Inference Approaches, EPSRC, 06/2009 - 06/2012, £19,771, as Co-PI
- Reverse Engineering State Machine Hierarchies by Grammar Inference (REGI), EPSRC, 04/2009 to 09/2012, £315,209, as Researcher Co-PI
- Professional activities and memberships
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Member of the Testing research group