Head of Department 1999-2003, 2004-2006

Professor Alan Burns FREng, FIET FBCS FIEEE, CEng is a professor in the Department of Computer Science, University of York.

His academic career started in 1978-1990 as a Lecturer at the University of Bradford.

Joining the University of York in 1990 he held the position of Reader until 1996. Awarded his Professorship in 1996, Alan continues in the Department. He is a world-renowned expert in, and member of the Department's Real-Time Systems Research Group and has authored or co-authored over 300 publications, with a large proportion of them concentrating on real-time systems and the Ada programming language. Alan has been actively involved in the creation of the Ravenscar profile, a subset of Ada's tasking model, designed to enable the analysis of real-time programs for their timing properties.

Alan was Head of Department from 1999 - 2003. He took up the role again between 2004 - 2006.

In 2006, Professor Alan Burns was awarded the Annual Technical Achievement Award for technical achievement and leadership by the IEEE Technical Committee on Real-time Systems In 2009, he was elected Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering. He is also a Fellow of the British Computer Society (BCS) and the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), and a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).