Mairead Meagher
lecturer
Computing & Mathematics
Waterford Institute of Technology
Ireland
Biography
Mairead graduated from UCD with a BSc (major Computer Science, minor Mathematics) in 1985. She joined WIT as a lecturer in Computing in 1985 until 1990. She then worked in SMC (later Kentz), a Software Development company based in Cork from 1990 to 1992. Since 1992, Mairead has worked in WIT, again as a lecturer in Computing.
Research Interest
Mairead's research interest are around the application of mathematics to data modelling and the software development lifecycle (also known as Formal Methods) . She completed her M.Phil. in 2001, entitled 'Towards the Development of an Electoral Count System using Formal Methods' under supervisor Prof. Michael Butler, University of Southampton, England.