Elected: 2014
Discipline: Informatics, Mathematics and Statistics
Professor Don Sannella
Professor of Computer Science, University Of Edinburgh
Professor Don Sannella first joined the University of Edinburgh in 1981 as a Research Fellow and has been Professor of Computer Science since 1998. He is co-founder and CEO of Contemplate Ltd, a technology company established to help primarily financial companies automatically identify defects in Java code bases. Don is the founder of ETAPS, Europe’s most prominent academic conference in software science, and is Editor-in-Chief of the journal Theoretical Computer Science.