Susan Eisenbach is a computer scientist who is

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Professor of Computer Science at

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. Her research investigates techniques for producing good software systems that behave appropriately.

Education

Eisenbach completed an undergraduate degree in Mathematics at

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. She completed a master's degree in

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and in

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at the

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, before working as a school maths teacher.

Career and research

Eisenbach joined the Department of Computing, Imperial College London, in September 1983. In 1994 she was appointed Director of Studies, a role she held for 15 years, with overall responsibility for teaching. She took a college-wide role as Dean of Teaching and Learning in 2010. In January 2011, she was made Head of the Department of Computing, which she completed in September 2016. She has supervised numerous PhD students, including

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and others. She has published several books on programming. In 1981 she published ''PASCAL for Programmers''. She published ''Program Design with Modula-2'' in 1989. She published ''Reasoned Programming'' in 1994. Eisenbach's research focuses on how to produce concurrent programs that behave properly. She has championed entrepreneurship amongst the student community. She is an advisor to the computer education program ''The Turing Lab'', a partnership between Imperial College London graduates and

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. Eisenbach has spoken about the lack of women in technology since 2000. She pointed out that when "computing was less popular, we had far more women students". She was part of a discussion host by ''

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'' on how to get more women into technology roles in 2013.

References

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