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Dermot Cochran

Dermot Cochran

Biography

General
Name and Title: 
Mr. Dermot Cochran BA MIE MSc
Position: 
LGSSE Doctoral Researcher in Software Engineering
Supervisor: 
Joseph Kiniry
Co-Supervisor: 
Research Group: 
Software Development Group
Phone: 
Email: 

Address:
Software Development Group,
IT University of Copenhagen ,
Rued Langgaards Vej 7,
2300 Copenhagen S,
Denmark

 

Biography

Dermot Cochran graduated in 1992 from Trinity College Dublin with a primary degree in Theoretical Computer Science. From 1992 to 1997 he developed software for Teltec Ireland research centre at Trinity College Dublin. He worked as a Senior Software Engineer in the Irish software industry from 1997 to 2007, first with Trintech developing Electronic Payment Systems and more recently as a Java developer with Curam Software. He graduated in 2003 with an MIE in Systems Engineering, and in 2007 with an MSc in Advanced Software Engineering, both from University College Dublin. His MSc dissertation was a formal specification of the Irish vote counting system using the Java Modeling Language (JML). He recently worked as Senior Research Programmer for the EU Mobius IST-15905 project.

 

Professional

Employment:

  • Employer: Curam Software
    Position: Senior Software Engineer
  • Employer: Trintech Group
    Position: Senior Software Engineer
  • Employer: Trinity College Dublin
    Position: Research Programmer

Education:

  • Year 2007 Institution: University College Dublin
    Qualification: MSc Subject: Advanced Software Engineering
  • Year 2003 Institution: University College Dublin
    Qualification: MIE Subject: Systems Engineering
  • Year 1992 Institution: Trinity College Dublin
    Qualification: BA (Mod) Subject: Theoretical Computer Science

 

Publications

Conference Publications:

  • Kiniry, J., Cochran, D. and Tierney, P. (2007) Verification Centric Realization of Electronic Vote Counting Electroic Voting Technologies Workshop, Boston, Massachusetts, Available Online
  • Kiniry, J. et al (2006) KOA Remote Voting System: A summary of work to date Trusted Global Computing, Lucca, Italy, Available Online

 

Research

Research Interests:

    Software Engineering/Architecture, Applied Formal Methods, Electronic Voting