Michael Gerard Hinchey (born 1969)^[1] is an Irish computer scientist and former Director of the Irish Software Engineering Research Centre (Lero), a multi-university research centre headquartered at the University of Limerick, Ireland.^[2][3] He now serves as Head of Department of the Department of Computer Science & Information Systems at University of Limerick.

Mike Hinchey studied at the University of Limerick as an undergraduate (was the leading student in his graduating year^[2]), Oxford University (at Wolfson College) for his MSc and Cambridge University (at St John's College) for his PhD.^[4]

Hinchey has been a promulgator of formal methods throughout his career, especially CSP and the Z notation. He was Director of the NASA Software Engineering Laboratory at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center^[5] and is the founding editor-in-chief of the NASA journal Innovations in Systems and Software Engineering, launched in 2005.

He has held many academic positions, both visiting and permanent, at a number of universities including the University of Nebraska, Queen's University Belfast, New Jersey Institute of Technology,^[6] Hiroshima University^{[citation needed]} the University of Skövde in Sweden^[2] and was at Loyola College in Maryland (now Loyola University Maryland), United States, before his current post.

Hinchey is a Member of Academia Europaea, a Fellow of the IET, a Fellow of the IMA, and a Senior Member of the IEEE.^{[citation needed]} He is a Chartered Engineer, Chartered Professional Engineer, Chartered Mathematician and Chartered IT Professional.^{[citation needed]}

As of 2016, Hinchey has been serving as President of IFIP (International Federation for Information Processing).^{[7][citation needed]}

Selected publications

• Hinchey, M.G. and Bowen, J.P., editors, Applications of Formal Methods. Prentice Hall International Series in Computer Science, 1995. ISBN 0-13-366949-1.
• Dean, C.N. and Hinchey, M.G., editors, Teaching and Learning Formal Methods, Academic Press, London, 1996. ISBN 0-12-349040-5.
• Bowen, J.P. and Hinchey, M.G., editors, High-Integrity System Specification and Design. Springer-Verlag, London, FACIT series, 1999. ISBN 3-540-76226-4.
• Hinchey, M.G. and Bowen, J.P., editors, Industrial-Strength Formal Methods in Practice. Springer-Verlag, London, FACIT series, 1999. ISBN 1-85233-640-4.