Merge pull request #828 from RSE-Sheffield/michael-foster-profile

Michael Foster staff page

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+level: 2
+published: true
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+othernames: Michael   
+surname: Foster
+role: Research Software Engineer
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+Michael joined the RSE team in October 2024.
+He comes from a background in Computer Science, following an integrated masters degree and PhD in software testing at the University of Sheffield.
+After that, he was a research associate on the [CITCoM project](https://sites.google.com/sheffield.ac.uk/citcom/home) in the software testing group, also at the University of Sheffield.
+During this time, he has been an active member of the software engineering research community and an advocate for good research software practice, having served as a dedicated software reviewer for several software engineering conferences.
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+Michael's main expertise is in black-box testing of traditionally "hard to test" software through the analysis of software logs and time series data.
+He is experienced in Python, and has worked with data science libraries such as Numpy, Pandas, and Statsmodels.
+He also has experience in functional programming, formal methods, code optimisation, and parallelisation.
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+* Email: m.foster (at) sheffield.ac.uk
+* Github: [@jmafoster1](https://github.com/jmafoster1)
+* [Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=4fTJseoAAAAJ)
+* [Personal Webpage](https://jmafoster1.github.io)