December 6-8, 2018
IIIT Hyderabad, India
IIIT Hyderabad Campus, by , under Creative Commons license.
Aarti Gupta is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Princeton University. She received a PhD in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University. Her broad research interests are in the areas of formal verification of programs and systems, automatic decision procedures, and electronic design automation. She has served on the technical program committees of many leading conferences in these areas, and is currently serving on the Steering Committee of the CAV (Computer Aided Verification) Conference. She is an ACM Fellow.
IIT Kanpur
Modeling and Verification of Security Properties of Hardware and Software Systems
Pramod Subramanyan is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. His research addresses systems security concerns using formal methods. He obtained his Ph.D. from the Department of Electrical Engineering at Princeton University under the guidance of Prof. Sharad Malik. Prior to joining Princeton, Pramod obtained an M.Sc. (Engg.) degree from the Indian Institute of Science and a B.E. degree from the R. V. College of Engineering, Bangalore. Before entering academia for his doctoral studies, Pramod was a software engineer at National Instruments and a hardware design engineer at AMD.
Dr. Vijay Ganesh is an associate professor at the University of Waterloo. Prior to joining Waterloo in 2012, he was a research scientist at MIT (2007-2012) and completed his PhD in computer science from Stanford University in 2007. Vijay's primary area of research is the theory and practice of automated mathematical reasoning algorithms aimed at software engineering, formal methods, security, and mathematics. In this context he has led the development of many SAT/SMT solvers, most notably, STP, Z3 string, MapleSAT, and MathCheck. He has also proved several decidability and complexity results in the context of first-order theories. He has won over 25 awards, honors, and medals to-date for his research, including an ACM Test of Time Award at CCS 2016, an Ontario Early Researcher Award 2016, two Google Faculty Research Awards in 2011 and 2013, and a Ten-Year Most Influential Paper citation at DATE 2008.
Kuldeep Meel is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science in School of Computing at the National University of Singapore where he holds the Sung Kah Kay Assistant Professorship. He received his Ph.D. (2017) and M.S. (2014) degree from Rice University, and B. Tech. (with Honors) degree (2012) in Computer Science and Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. His research interests lie at the intersection of Artificial Intelligence and Formal Methods.
B Srivathsan is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the Chennai Mathematical Institute. He is a post doc from RWTH-Aachen, software modeling and verification group. He received his Ph.D. (2012) from LaBRI, University of Bordeaux and B.Tech + M.Tech (2009) dual degree in Computer Science and Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. His research interests include the theoretical foundations of formal verification and formal language theory.
Chennai Mathematical Institute
Synthesizing Loop Invariants Using Max-Strategy Iteration and its Implementation in 2LS
Srivas has been working almost all his professional life, it seems, in formal methods ever since his PhD in mid-80's where it all started. He dabbled for a decade starting in early 2000 with a couple of start-ups and an MNC before returning to his FM roots as a faculty at CMI five years ago. His favorite pastime in his sunrise days now is training the next generation in formal methods, while contributing his bit to making FM worthy of its promise.
Soumyajit Dey joined the dept. of CSE, IIT Kgp in May 2013. He received a B.E. degree in Electronics and Telecommunication Engg. from Jadavpur University, Kolkata. He received an M.S. followed by PhD degree in Computer Science from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur. His research interests include 1) Formal Methods for Dependable Cyber Physical Systems, 2) Runtime Systems for Heterogeneous Platforms.