Name:Benjamin Hocking

Bio:

Principal Scientist at Dependable Computing in Charlottesville, VA, working on formal specifications, requirements gathering, safety case engineering, and other safety-critical and security-critical software engineering issues. PhD in Computer Science from the University of Virginia, with dissertation involving a genetic algorithm exploration of neural network models of the hippocampus. Masters degrees in Physics/Astronomy (involving General Relativity and alternate space-time metrics) and Computer Science (involving improving multi-processor implementations of hippocampal neural network simulations).

Country:United States

Affiliation:Dependable Computing, LLC

Research interests:Formal methods, theorem provers, safety cases, assurance arguments, neural networks, genetic algorithms