What We Do
The goal of the PoP group is to understand, develop, and demonstrate the principles, processes, and supporting technologies for the construction of computing systems.
Special areas of interest include: applications of logic (including formal semantics and type theory); techniques for designing and implementing programming languages; formal specification and verification of hardware and software systems.
A distinguishing characteristic of the PoP group is that it applies formal principles to problems of realistic scale and complexity, for example: automatic verification of large-scale commercial hardware systems; implementation of high-speed network communication software in the ML language; application of type-theoretic principles in the construction of realistic compilers.
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Affiliated Faculty
Umut Acar
algorithms and data structures, parallel computing, programming languages, software systems and architecture
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Jonathan Aldrich
compilers, formal methods/verification, parallel computing, programming languages, software engineering
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Jan Hoffmann
formal methods/verification, programming languages, resource analysis, security
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André Platzer
control systems, cyber physical systems, formal methods/verification, game theory, logic, programming languages, robotics, security
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William Scherlis
software engineering, software systems and architecture, parallel computing
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Jean Yang
formal methods/verification, programming languages, security, computational biology
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Other Members
| Name | Position |
| Arbob Ahmad | Graduate student |
| Waqar Ahmad | Graduate student |
| Carlo Angiuli | Graduate student |
| Stephanie Balzer | Postdoc |
| Brandon Bohrer | Graduate student |
| Evan Cavallo | Graduate student |
| Michael Coblenz | Graduate student |
| Flavio Cruz | Graduate student |
| Ankush Das | Graduate student |
| Henry DeYoung | Graduate student |
| Nicolas Feltman | Graduate student |
| Nathan Fulton | Graduate student |
| Hannah (Anna) Gommerstadt | Graduate student |
| David Henriques | Graduate student |
| Favonia Hou | Graduate student |
| Ran Ji | Postdoc |
| Ryan Kavanagh | Graduate student |
| Darya Kurilova | Graduate student |
| Michael Maass | Graduate student |
| João Martins | Graduate student |
| Filipe Militao | Graduate student |
| Stefan Mitsch | Postdoc |
| Ed Morehouse | Postdoc |
| Stefan Mullter | Graduate student |
| Chan Ngo | Postdoc |
| Cyrus Omar | Graduate student |
| Ram Raghunathan | Graduate student |
| Kristina Sojakova | Graduate student |
| Michael Sullivan | Graduate student |
| Joe Tassaroti | Graduate student |
| Erik Zawadzki | Graduate student |