Edmund Clarke's Students
Graduate Students Post-Docs and Visitors
Past Students

Students Receiving Ph.D Degree

  • Alex Groce, Error Explanation and Fault Localization with Distance Metrics, March 2005; Currently at JPL, NASA, CA.
  • Sagar Chaki, A Counterexample Guided Abstraction Refinement Framework for Verifying Concurrent C Programs, January 2005; Currently at SEI, CMU, Pittsburgh.
  • Dong Wang, SAT based Abstraction Refinement for Hardware Verification, May 2003; Current Position: Synopsis, CA.
  • W. Marrero, BRUTUS: A Model Checker for Security Protocols, June, 2001; Current Position: Assistant Professor, DePaul University, Chicago, IL.
  • Y. Lu, Automatic Abstraction for Model Checking, May 2000; Current Position: Broadcom,
    San Jose, CA.
  • M. Minea, Model Checking with Partial Order Reduction for Real-Time Systems, December 1999; Current Position: Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley.
  • V. Hartonas-Garmhausen, Probabilistic Symbolic Model Checking with Engineering Models and Applications, Engineering and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University, April, 1998.
  • S. Jha, Symmetry and Induction in Model Checking, October 1996; Current Position: Assistant
    Professor, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI.
  • S. Campos, A Quantitative Approach to the Formal Verification of Real-Time Systems, September 1996; Current Position: Associate Professor at the Computer Science Department of the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, city of Belo Horizonte, Brasil.
  • X. Zhao, Verification of Arithmetic Circuits, August 1996; Current Position: Intel Corporation, Beaverton, OR.
  • D.E. Long, Model Checking, Abstraction and Modular Verification, August 1993; Current Position: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ.
  • J.R. Burch, Trace Algebra for Automatic Verification of Real-Time Concurrent Systems, August 1992; First Position: Post-Doctoral Research, Department of Computer Science, Stanford University; Current Position: Cadence Berkeley Laboratories.
  • K.L. McMillan, Symbolic Model Checking, May 1992; First Position: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ. (McMillan's thesis was a co-winner of the 1992 ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award); Current Position: Cadence Berkeley Laboratories.
  • M.C. Browne, Automatic Verification of Sequential Circuits, Carnegie Mellon University, January 1989; First Position: Project Scientist on Warp and Nectar projects, Carnegie Mellon University; Current Position: Sun Computer Corporation, CA.
  • D.L. Dill, Automatic Verification of Asynchronous Circuits using Automata, Carnegie Mellon University, August 1987; Current Position: Tenured Full Professor, Stanford University. (Dill's thesis tied for second place in the ACM Dissertation Award Contest and published as an ACM Distinguished Dissertation).
  • B. Mishra, Graph Theoretic Algorithms and the Design of VLSI Systems, Carnegie Mellon University, September 1985; Current Position: Tenured Full Professor, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University.
  • A.P. Sistla, Theoretical Issues in the Design and Verification of Distributed Systems, Harvard University, July 1983; First position: Tenured Full Professor, University of Massachusetts, Amherst; Current Position: Tenured Associate Professor, University of Illinois at Chicago.
  • C.N. Nikolaou, Reliability Issues in Distributed Systems, Harvard University, June 1982; First Position: Manager, Multi-systems Resource Management group, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York; Current Position: University of Crete, Greece.
  • E.A. Emerson, Branching Time Temporal Logic and the Design of Correct Concurrent Programs, Harvard University, August 1981; Current Position: Tenured Full Professor, University of Texas, Austin.
Students Receiving M.S. Degree
  • Anneliese K. von Mayrhauser, Proving Parallel Programs Correct, Duke University, July 1978. Currently Assistant vice President for Research Colorado State University.
  • Bruce W. Ballard, Systematic Removal of Recursion for a Class of Lisp-like Recursion Schemes, Duke University, May 1977.
Ph.D Thesis Committees
  • A.L. Turk, Advisor: Gary J. Powers, Chemical Engineering Department, Carnegie Mellon University.
  • M. Velev, Advisor: Randy Bryant, Computer Science Department, Carnegie Mellon University.
  • A. Chutinan, Advisor: Bruce Krogh, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Carnegie Mellon University.
  • Y.-A. Chen, Advisor: Randy Bryant, Computer Science Department, Carnegie Mellon University.
  • K. Stirewalt, Advisor: Gregory Abowd, Department of Computer Science, Georgia Institute of Technology.
  • A. Jain, Advisor: Randy Bryant, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Carnegie Mellon University.
  • J. Dingel, Advisor: Steve Brookes, Computer Science Department, Carnegie Mellon University.
  • S. Older, Advisor: Steve Brookes, Computer Science Department, Carnegie Mellon University.
  • M. Kaltenbach, Advisor: J. Mishra, Computer Science Department, University of Texas, Austin, 1996.
  • S. Probst, Advisor: Gary Powers, Chemical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University.
  • A. Gupta, Advisor: Allan Fisher, Computer Science Department, Carnegie Mellon University.
  • D. Beatty, Advisor: Randy Bryant, Computer Science Department, Carnegie Mellon University.
  • I. Moon, Automatic Verification of Discrete Chemical Process Control Systems, August 1992; Advisor: Gary Powers, Chemical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University.
  • O. Coudert, SIAM: A Toolbox for the Formal Proof of Sequential Systems, L'Ecole National Superieure Des Telecommunications, Paris, France, October 1991.
  • M. Petkovsek, Finding Closed-Form Solutions of Difference Equations by Symbolic Methods, September 1990; Advisor: Dana Scott, Computer Science Department, Carnegie Mellon University
Post-Docs
Visitors
  • F. Wang 2001
  • G.H. Kwon 1999-2000
  • P. Williams 1999-2000
  • S. Shanker 1997
  • S. Krischner 1993
  • H. Hamaguchi 1993
  • P. Granger 1992
  • T. Filkorn 1992 
  • Holger Schlingloff 1991
  • H. Hiraishi 1988, 1994
  • J. P. Vidal 1990
  • O. Grumberg 1985-1987, Summers 1988-2000
  • T. Yoneda 1990
  • S. Kimura 1989
  • T. Tang 1986
  • Y. Q. Sun 1986
  • Y. Feng 1985

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