Gerard O'Regan

Gerard O'Regan was born in Cork, Ireland and attended University College Cork and Trinity College Dublin. His background is both industrial (especially in the software quality and software process improvement field), and academic (he has carried out research in mathematical approaches to software quality at Trinity College, Dublin, where he earned a PhD in Computer Science).

His academic interests include formal methods, mathematics in computing, software engineering and software quality, and the history of computing.

His industrial work includes work as a consultant to improve the software process maturity of software organizations to enhance their software engineering capability. This has involved assessing the software process maturity of various engineering practices in the organisation with respect to models such as the CMMI, and working with them to enhance their software engineering capability. He has worked with industrial companies such as Motorola, Ericsson, Allianz, and EirGrid.

He has published several books with Springer including A Practical Approach to Software Quality (2002), Mathematical Approaches to Software Quality (2006), A Brief History of Computing (2008, 2012, 2021 and 2026), An Introduction to Software Process Improvement (2010), Mathematics in Computing (2012 and 2020), Giants of Computing (2013), An Introduction to Software Quality (2014). Pillars of Computing (2015), Introduction to the History of Computing (2016), Guide to Discrete Mathematics (2016 and 2021), Concise Guide to Software Engineering (2017 and 2022), Concise Guide to Formal Methods (2017), World of Computing (2018), The Innovation in Computing Companion (2018), Concise Guide to Software Testing (2019), A Guide to Business Mathematics (published by Taylor and Francis in 2022), Mathematical Foundations of Software Engineering (2023), Ethical and Legal Aspects of Computing (2024) and Guide to Software Project Management (2025).

He is involved in international education and has worked as a Visiting Lecturer / professor in China, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Egypt and Kyrgyzstan.