People
Current research staff (research fellows, postdoc and postgraduate researchers)
Alasdair Armstrong
Thomas Bauereiss
Kayvan Memarian
Christopher Pulte
(Royal Society University Research Fellow)
Vadim Zaliva
Current PhD Students
Nils Lauermann
, 2023-
Rini Banerjee
, 2022- (supervised jointly with Neel Krishnaswami)
Thibaut Pérami
, 2021-
Dhruv Makwana
, 2020- (supervised jointly with Neel Krishnaswami)
Angus Hammond
, 2019-
Ben Simner
, 2018-
David Kaloper Meršinjak
, 2016-. (initially supervised jointly with Anil Madhavapeddy)
Shaked Flur
, 2013-. (Google, writing up)
Previous PhD Students
Mark Wassell
, 2016- (supervised jointly with Neel Krishnaswami; on hold)
Conrad Watt
, 2016-2021.
Mechanising and evolving the formal semantics of WebAssembly: The Web's new low-level language
. EAPLS Best Dissertation Award 2021, and Honorable Mention for the 2022 ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award. (
JRF, University of Cambridge
Nanyang Technological University)
Christopher Pulte
2014-2019.
The Semantics of Multicopy Atomic ARMv8 and RISC-V.
(
RA
Royal Society University Research Fellow, University of Cambridge)
Kyndylan Nienhuis
2013-2021.
Verified security properties for the capability-enhanced CHERI-MIPS architecture
Jean Pichon-Pharabod
2013-2017.
A no-thin-air memory model for programming languages
(Aarhus University)
Justus Matthiesen
2012-. Switched to work with Andrew Pitts
Kayvan Memarian
2011-2022.
The Cerberus C Semantics
. (RA, University of Cambridge)
Mark Batty
2009-2014.
The C11 and C++11 Concurrency Model
. Winner of the
2015 SIGPLAN John C. Reynolds Doctoral Dissertation award
and the
BCS 2015 Distinguished Dissertation award.
(University of Kent)
Rok Strniša
2005-2010.
Formalising, improving, and reusing the Java Module System
(Improbable)
John Billings
2005-.
Switched to work on
Metarouting
with Tim Griffin. (Facebook)
Gareth Stoyle 2001-2006.
Dynamic Software Updating
(CIBC Capital Markets)
Moritz Becker 2001-2005.
Cassandra: flexible trust management and its application to electronic health records
(
Microsoft Research
)
Andrei Serjantov
-2004.
On the Anonymity of Anonymity Systems
(BMP Paribas)
Asis Unyapoth -2001.
Nomadic Pi Calculi: Expressing and Verifying Infrastructure for Mobile Computation
(Thai Government)
Pawel Wojciechowski
-2000.
Nomadic Pict: Language and Infrastructure Design for Mobile Computation
(Poznan University of Technology)
Previous research staff (postdoc and postgraduate researchers, not including those also in the PhD student list)
Mair Allen-Williams
Peter Boehm
Adam Biltcliffe
Steve Bishop
(CMR Surgical)
Mike Dodds
(
University of York
Galois)
Matthew Fairbairn
Thomas Fourier
Jon French
Anthony Fox
(Arm Research)
Kathryn Gray (Facebook)
Victor Gomes
(Google)
Pierre Habouzit
Ohad Kammar
(University of Edinburgh)
Stephen Kell
(University of Kent)
Gabriel Kerneis (Google)
Hannes Mehnert
(Center for the cultivation of technology)
Dominic Mulligan
(
Arm Research
Amazon)
Kyndylan Nienhuis
Michael Norrish
(ANU)
Robert Norton-Wright
(Microsoft Research)
Scott Owens (
University of Kent
Facebook)
Gilles Peskine
(Arm)
Linden Ralph
Tom Ridge
(
University of Leicester
Altodata)
Susmit Sarkar
(University of St. Andrews)
Jaroslav Sevcik (Google)
Thomas Sewell
Ali Sezgin
(Facebook)
Mark Shinwell
(Jane Street)
Michael Smith
(Adobe)
Thomas Tuerk
Viktor Vafeiadis
(MPI-SWS)
Keith Wansbrough
(Metaswitch Networks (Data Connection Ltd))