Introduction
My name is Mark Hennessy. I'm a recently completed postgraduate student working as a lecturer at NUIM.

I completed my undergraduate degree (Computer Science) in Maynooth in June 2002. I started a PhD in October 2002.
The title of my project is "A test-driven development strategy for the construction of grammar-based software".

I completed my PhD in October 2006 and defended my thesis in December 2006. My research supervisor was Dr. James F. Power.
My thesis is available here.

Research Interests
Testing, with an emphasis on developing a standardised test-suite for applications that receive ISO C++ as input( More)
Parsing, with particular emphasis on GLR parsing.(More)
Source Code Analysis and Representation through XML.(More)
Aspect Oriented Programming.(More)

Teaching
2006-2007
CS151 - Discrete Structures 1 (Course material available through Moodle)
CS351 - Programming Paradigms
CS613 - Masters C++ Workshop

2004-2005
CS310/SE301 - Compilers

Awards
Recipient of IRCSET scholarship for the duration of my Phd.
Winner of best paper at the 2006 IBM Centre for Advanced Studies Conference, Dublin Symposium.

Conference Publications (peer reviewed)
Mark Hennessy and James F. Power, "Ensuring behavioural equivalence in test-driven porting",
in CASCON06, 16th International Conference on Computer Science and Software Engineering, Dublin Symposium, IBM Campus, Dublin, Ireland, Oct 2006.(More)

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Other Interests
The greatest rush in the world: Zorbing
I enjoy travelling quite a lot cropping up all over the US and New Zealand, Japan, Canada, Mexico, Poland, Italy, Croatia, Czech Republic, the UK, Switzerland, France and the Netherlands.
Allez les Bleus! Leinster Rugby.
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