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<h1>Jim Davies</h1>
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<p>MA MSc DPhil MBCS CITP</p>

<h2>Roles</h2>

<p>Professor of Software Engineering; Director of the Software
Engineering Programme; Governing Body Fellow of <a
href="http://www.kellogg.ox.ac.uk/">Kellogg College</a>.</p>

<h2>Teaching</h2>

<p><a
id="CDS" href="../../subjects/CDS.html">Concurrency and Distributed
Systems</a>.</p>

<h2>Research</h2>

<p>Model-driven software engineering; state-based specification and
design; concurrency and distributed systems; semantics-driven
architectures; clinical informatics.</p>

<h2>Projects</h2>

<p>CancerGrid; Object Model Transformation; Automatic Generation of
Software Components; Data Standards and Software Engineering for
Cancer Bioinformatics; Integrative Biology.</p>

<h2>Background</h2>

<p>Lecturer in Computer Science, University of Reading (1993-1995);
Researcher, University of Oxford (1991-1993); BA Mathematics, MSc
Computation, DPhil Computation (UK BCS/CPHC Distinguished Dissertation
Prize), University of Oxford, 1983-1991.</p>

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