Anthony Finkelstein (born 28 July 1959)[1] is a British software engineer. He is Professor of Software Systems Engineering at University College London (UCL) and Dean of the UCL Faculty of Engineering Sciences. He is a Visiting Professor at Imperial College London and at the National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo, Japan. He is a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) and the British Computer Society (BCS). In 2009 he received the Oliver Lodge Medal of the IET for achievement in Information Technology.[2]
His scientific work is in the broad area of software development tools and processes.[3] He has also worked on applications of systems modelling in the life sciences. He has served on numerous editorial boards including that of ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology and IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, and was founder editor of Automated Software Engineering.
He is a grandson of Alfred Wiener, founder of the Wiener Library, brother of Daniel Finkelstein OBE, Executive Editor of The Times. His father Ludwik Finkelstein OBE is a Professor Emeritus of Measurement and Instrumentation. He is married to Judith Fishman and has two sons.