Norman Fenton

Norman Elliott Fenton (born 18 May 1956) is a British mathematician and computer scientist. He is the Professor of Risk Information Management in the School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science at Queen Mary University of London. He is known for his work in software metrics and is the author of the textbook Software Metrics: A Rigorous Approach, as of 2014 in its third edition.

Education Fenton received his bachelor's degree in mathematics from the London School of Economics in 1978. He earned his Master of Science in 1978 and Doctor of Philosophy in 1981 at the University of Sheffield. At Sheffield he was the second research student of Peter Vámos. His doctoral thesis was "Representations of Matroids".

Career Fenton was a postdoctoral fellow in the mathematics department at University College Dublin from 1981 to 1982 and the Mathematics Institute of the University of Oxford from 1982 to 1984. In 1984, he joined the department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at South Bank Polytechnic in London where he headed the Centre for Software and Systems Engineering research group.

In 1989, Fenton moved to City University as a reader in software reliability, and became a professor of Computing Science in 1992.

In August 2025, he joined the policy college of Advance UK.

Selected publications Textbooks

Fenton, N.E. and M. Neil, Fighting Goliath: Exposing the flawed science and statistics behind the COVID-19 event. 2024 Sovereign Rights Publishing, , 2024

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