Prizes and Honours

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• Principal Investigator in interdisciplinary grants totalling over £15 million. Full list of projects: https://www.normanfenton.com/projects

• European Research Council Advanced Grant Fellowship BAYES-KNOWLEDGE (Effective Bayesian Modelling with Knowledge Before Data) (value 1,572,562 euros for a 4-year programme April 2014-March 2018). 

• July-Dec 2016. Led prestigious 6-month Programme on Probability and Statistics in Forensic Science at the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, University of Cambridge where I was also a Simons Fellow.

• My impact Case Study was rated 4* in REF2021 http://eecs.qmul.ac.uk/research/featured-research/new-software-helps-improve-critical-decision-making/

• My book "Software Metrics", first published in 1991, sold over 30,000 copies, with a third edition appearing in 2014,   ranks as the second most cited book ever in software engineering (ChatGPT, Jan 2026)

• BBC Documentary "Climate Change by Numbers" (which I co-presented) won the following awards:

  • American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Science Journalism Gold Award for "best in-depth TV reporting" 2015.

  • European Science TV and New Media Award for the best Science programme on an environmental issue, 2015

• The Fenton and Neil paper "A critique of software defect prediction models" placed in top 1% most influential papers in its field based on number of citations (according to Essential Science Indicators), March 2005

• Fenton NE and Neil M, “Improved Programme Selection”, International Patent Publication Number WO 03/090466 A2. This patent is forTV Programme personalisation (based on Bayesian Networks, Fuzzy Logic and an original approach to TV programme classification).  

• Named as one of the world’s 15 top scholars (for the third time). Glass RL and Chen TY, "An assessment of Systems and Software Engineering scholars and institutions (1996-2000)", Journal of Systems and Software 59, 107-113, Oct 2001

• Youngest Professor at City University, 1993

• ATM Flett prize for MSc, 1979

• Top First Class Degree, University of London, 1978

• School Scholar at LSE 1976-78

• Winner of LSE Undergraduate Prize 1976, 1977

 

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