Kostas Tourlas

Position: Senior Consultant

Education and Qualifications

Kostas Tourlas holds M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from the University of Edinburgh. He joined Adelard in 2003 and has since been working in the areas of software dependability, safety assessment, and safety case development.

Safety assessment and consultancy

• (Prersent) Leading Adelard's ISA team for the T102 miltary radars, which are soon to replace the legacy T93 designs.
• (2007) Produced an assessment for British Energy of a PC-based system for data recording. The system is now in operation at Heynsham.
• (2006−2007) Produced an evaluation for CINIF (the UK's nuclear forum) of the EMPHASIS process audit tool, based on its practical application to a commercial smart sensor product.
• (2006−2007) Project leader on the development of guidance for the safety assessment of PCs in nuclear applications (the "Low SIL" project, commissioned by British Energy).
• (2006) Produced an assessment for British Energy of the OS9 operating system, in the context of its use in a valve control system at Sizewell.
• (2004) Co-author of the safety case for ADSI (Advance Defence Systems Integrator), which provides a data forwarding service to TACC (Tactical Air Command & Control system).
• (2004) Author of safety cases for a variety of radios and headset equipment used in RAF airfields.
• (2003−present) Member of Adelard's ISA team for Bowman, the MoD's battlefield digitisation project.
• (2003−2004) Member of Adelard's ISA team for the UK Air Defence Maintenance Capability Programme, the UK's military air traffic control system.
• (2003−2005) Reasearch on the reliability, availability and safety aspects of general-purpose operating systems, including Windows 2000, XP and Linux. Undertaken for various clients, including the MoD and Electa Oncology Systems.
• (2003−2004) Member of Adelard's team for FEAST (Further Experience with Advanced Static Analysis), a series projects on the safety justification of smart sensor devices.
• (2003) Member of Adelard's team for SPASC, a European project to update the European Space Agency policy and guidelines for software development.
• (1998) Member of a six-strong team consulted by Lucas Aerospace on best practices in the development of real-time control software.