Teaching

I teach leading edge Design Verification techniques and methods using industrial strength tools including both state-of-the-art coverage-driven simulation/test-based verification and formal verification. You may want to watch an interview I gave at DAC 2012 in San Francisco on the content of the Design Verification unit.
Since 2007 Bristol has been selected as lead university to head the Cadence Academic Network in the area of Advanced Verification Methodology. (local CAN info)

In collaboration with a consortium of local microelectronic design companies I have initiated the introduction of the MSc in Advanced Microelectronic Systems Engineering in 2006. I have been the Director of this MSc programme until 2010. The programme is now one of our established Advanced MSc programmes; it attracts excellent students and provides qualified graduates for the local and international microelectronics design industry.

Expertise

I have established Design Automation and Verification as a research and teaching area of international recognition here at Bristol. I set up and now chair the Energy-Aware COmputing workshop series and research initiative. I also lead the "Verification and Validation for Safety in Robots" research theme at the Bristol Robotics Laboratory. My research activities are focused on the development of system modelling, verification and analysis techniques which allow designers to define a system and to verify or explore its behaviour, e.g. in terms of functional correctness, performance, power dissipation and energy efficiency. My work includes both formal methods and state-of-the-art test-based approaches.

• verification; validation and test
• design automation and verification
• formal verification and specification
• energy aware computing
• energy efficient computing
• robotics
• autonomous systems safety and trust

Keywords

• verification
• simulation
• test
• formal methods
• modelling
• certification
• robot safety