---
-title: Thesis, Publications, Workshop Submissions
+title: Publications
slug: Publications
---
-<h3>Under Submission</h3>
+<h2>Conference and journal papers</h2>
+
+<h3>2025</h3>
<ul><li>
- <b>RustBelt: Securing the Foundations of the Rust Programming Language</b><br/>
+ <b>Program Logics à la Carte</b><br/>
+ Max Vistrup, Michael Sammler, Ralf Jung<br>
+ <i>In <a href="https://popl25.sigplan.org/">POPL 2025</a></i><br>
+ [<a href="papers/2025-popl-itree-program-logic.pdf">paper</a>] [<a href="https://plf.inf.ethz.ch/research/popl25-itree-program-logic.html">paper website</a>]
+</li></ul>
+
+<h3>2024</h3>
+
+<ul><li>
+ <b>Rustlantis: Randomized Differential Testing of the Rust Compiler</b><br/>
+ Qian Wang, Ralf Jung<br>
+ <i>In <a href="https://2024.splashcon.org/">OOPSLA 2024</a></i><br>
+ [<a href="papers/2024-oopsla-rustlantis.pdf">paper</a>] [<a href="https://plf.inf.ethz.ch/research/oopsla24-rustlantis.html">paper website</a>]
+</li></ul>
+
+<ul><li>
+ <b>RefinedRust: A Type System for High-Assurance Verification of Rust Programs</b><br/>
+ Lennard Gäher, Michael Sammler, Ralf Jung, Robbert Krebbers, Derek Dreyer<br>
+ <i>In <a href="https://pldi24.sigplan.org/">PLDI 2024</a></i><br>
+ [<a href="https://iris-project.org/pdfs/2024-pldi-refinedrust.pdf">paper</a>] [<a href="https://plv.mpi-sws.org/refinedrust/">paper website</a>]
+</li></ul>
+
+<h3>2023</h3>
+
+<ul><li>
+ <b>Grove: a Separation-Logic Library for Verifying Distributed Systems</b><br/>
+ Upamanyu Sharma, Ralf Jung, Joseph Tassarotti, M. Frans Kaashoek, Nickolai Zeldovich <br>
+ <i>In <a href="https://sosp2023.mpi-sws.org/index.html">SOSP 2023</a></i><br>
+ [<a href="https://iris-project.org/pdfs/2023-sosp-grove.pdf">paper</a>] [<a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.03046">extended version</a>]
+</li></ul>
+
+<ul><li>
+ <b>Verifying vMVCC, a high-performance transaction library using multi-version concurrency control</b><br/>
+ Yun-Sheng Chang, Ralf Jung, Upamanyu Sharma, Joseph Tassarotti, M. Frans Kaashoek, Nickolai Zeldovich <br>
+ <i>In <a href="https://www.usenix.org/conference/osdi23">OSDI 2023</a></i><br>
+ [<a href="https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/papers/vmvcc:osdi23.pdf">paper</a>] [<a href="https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/projects/vmvcc.html#vmvcc">paper website</a>]
+</li></ul>
+
+<h3>2022</h3>
+
+<ul><li>
+ <b>Later Credits: Resourceful Reasoning for the Later Modality</b><br/>
+ Simon Spies, Lennard Gäher, Joseph Tassarotti, Ralf Jung, Robbert Krebbers, Lars Birkedal, Derek Dreyer <br>
+ <i>In <a href="https://icfp22.sigplan.org/">ICFP 2022</a></i><br>
+ [<a href="https://plv.mpi-sws.org/later-credits/paper-later-credits.pdf">paper</a>] [<a href="https://plv.mpi-sws.org/later-credits/">paper website</a>]
+</li></ul>
+
+<ul><li>
+ <b>Simuliris: A separation logic framework for verifying concurrent program optimizations</b><br/>
+ Lennard Gäher, Michael Sammler, Simon Spies, Ralf Jung, Hoang-Hai Dang, Robbert Krebbers, Jeehoon Kang, Derek Dreyer<br>
+ <i>In <a href="https://popl22.sigplan.org/">POPL 2022</a>, <b>Distinguished Paper Award</b></i><br>
+ [<a href="https://iris-project.org/pdfs/2022-popl-simuliris.pdf">paper</a>]
+</li></ul>
+
+<h3>2021</h3>
+
+<ul><li>
+ <b>GhostCell: Separating Permissions from Data in Rust</b><br/>
+ Joshua Yanovski, Hoang-Hai Dang, Ralf Jung, Derek Dreyer<br>
+ <i>In <a href="https://icfp21.sigplan.org/">ICFP 2021</a></i><br>
+ [<a href="https://plv.mpi-sws.org/rustbelt/ghostcell/paper.pdf">paper</a>] [<a href="https://plv.mpi-sws.org/rustbelt/ghostcell/">paper website</a>]
+</li></ul>
+
+<ul><li>
+ <b>GoJournal: a verified, concurrent, crash-safe journaling system</b><br/>
+ Tej Chajed, Joseph Tassarotti, Mark Theng, Ralf Jung, M. Frans Kaashoek, Nickolai Zeldovich<br>
+ <i>In <a href="https://www.usenix.org/conference/osdi21">OSDI 2021</a></i><br>
+ [<a href="papers/2021-osdi-gojournal.pdf">paper</a>]
+</li></ul>
+
+<ul><li>
+ <b>Safe Systems Programming in Rust: The Promise and the Challenge</b><br/>
Ralf Jung, Jacques-Henri Jourdan, Robbert Krebbers, Derek Dreyer<br>
- [<a href="http://www.mpi-sws.org/~dreyer/papers/rustbelt/paper.pdf">preprint</a>] [<a href="http://iris-project.org">project website</a> (incl. appendix and Coq formalization)]
+ <i>In Communications of the ACM (CACM)</i><br>
+ [<a href="https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2021/4/251364-safe-systems-programming-in-rust/fulltext">article</a>]
+ [<a href="https://iris-project.org/pdfs/2021-rustbelt-cacm-final.pdf">pdf</a>]
+ [<a href="https://vimeo.com/514402648">video</a>]
+</li></ul>
+
+<h3>2020</h3>
+
+<ul><li>
+ <b>The Future is Ours: Prophecy Variables in Separation Logic</b><br/>
+ Ralf Jung, Rodolphe Lepigre, Gaurav Parthasarathy, Marianna Rapoport, Amin Timany, Derek Dreyer, Bart Jacobs<br>
+ <i>In <a href="https://popl20.sigplan.org/">POPL 2020</a></i><br>
+ [<a href="https://plv.mpi-sws.org/prophecies/paper.pdf">paper</a>] [<a href="https://plv.mpi-sws.org/prophecies/">paper website</a>]
+</li></ul>
+
+<ul><li>
+ <b>Stacked Borrows: An Aliasing Model for Rust</b><br/>
+ Ralf Jung, Hoang-Hai Dang, Jeehoon Kang, Derek Dreyer<br>
+ <i>In <a href="https://popl20.sigplan.org/">POPL 2020</a></i><br>
+ [<a href="https://plv.mpi-sws.org/rustbelt/stacked-borrows/paper.pdf">paper</a>] [<a href="https://plv.mpi-sws.org/rustbelt/stacked-borrows/">paper website</a>]
</li></ul>
+<h3>2018</h3>
+
<ul><li>
<b>Iris from the Ground Up: A Modular Foundation for Higher-Order Concurrent Separation Logic</b><br/>
Ralf Jung, Robbert Krebbers, Jacques-Henri Jourdan, Aleš Bizjak, Lars Birkedal, Derek Dreyer<br>
- [<a href="http://www.mpi-sws.org/~dreyer/papers/iris-ground-up/paper.pdf">preprint</a>] [<a href="http://iris-project.org">project website</a> (incl. appendix and Coq formalization)]
+ <i>In <a href="https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-functional-programming/issue/832F8756D0A835287494117BF9ED5E74">Journal of Functional Programming (JFP), Volume 28, e20, November 2018</a></i><br>
+ [<a href="https://www.mpi-sws.org/~dreyer/papers/iris-ground-up/paper.pdf">paper</a>] [<a href="https://iris-project.org">project website</a>]
+</li></ul>
+
+<ul><li>
+ <b>Reconciling High-Level Optimizations and Low-Level Code in LLVM</b><br/>
+ Juneyoung Lee, Chung-Kil Hur, Ralf Jung, Zhengyang Liu, John Regehr, Nuno P. Lopes<br>
+ <i>In <a href="https://conf.researchr.org/track/splash-2018/splash-2018-OOPSLA">OOPSLA 2018</a></i><br>
+ [<a href="papers/2018-oopsla-twinsem.pdf">paper</a>] [<a href="https://sf.snu.ac.kr/llvmtwin/">paper website</a>]
+</li></ul>
+
+<ul><li>
+ <b>MoSeL: A General, Extensible Modal Framework for Interactive Proofs in Separation Logic</b><br/>
+ Robbert Krebbers, Jacques-Henri Jourdan, Ralf Jung, Joseph Tassarotti, Jan-Oliver Kaiser, Amin Timany, Arthur Charguéraud, Derek Dreyer<br>
+ <i>In <a href="https://icfp18.sigplan.org/">ICFP 2018</a></i><br>
+ [<a href="https://iris-project.org/pdfs/2018-icfp-mosel-final.pdf">paper</a>] [<a href="https://iris-project.org/mosel/">paper website</a>]
+</li></ul>
+
+<ul><li>
+ <b>RustBelt: Securing the Foundations of the Rust Programming Language</b><br/>
+ Ralf Jung, Jacques-Henri Jourdan, Robbert Krebbers, Derek Dreyer<br>
+ <i>In <a href="https://popl18.sigplan.org/">POPL 2018</a></i><br>
+ [<a href="https://plv.mpi-sws.org/rustbelt/popl18/paper.pdf">paper</a>] [<a href="https://plv.mpi-sws.org/rustbelt/popl18/">paper website</a>] [<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cy9NUVaiYUg" target="_blank">talk (YouTube)</a>] [<a href="https://plv.mpi-sws.org/rustbelt/popl18/talk.pdf">talk (slides)</a>]
</li></ul>
<h3>2017</h3>
<ul><li>
<b>The Essence of Higher-Order Concurrent Separation Logic</b><br/>
Robbert Krebbers, Ralf Jung, Aleš Bizjak, Jacques-Henri Jourdan, Derek Dreyer, Lars Birkedal<br>
- In <a href="http://www.etaps.org/index.php/2017/esop">ESOP 2017</a>: 26th European Symposium on Programming<br>
- [<a href="http://iris-project.org/pdfs/2017-esop-iris3-final.pdf">paper</a>] [<a href="http://iris-project.org">project website</a> (incl. appendix and Coq formalization)]
+ In <a href="https://www.etaps.org/index.php/2017/esop">ESOP 2017</a><br>
+ [<a href="https://iris-project.org/pdfs/2017-esop-iris3-final.pdf">paper</a>] [<a href="https://iris-project.org">project website</a>]
</li></ul>
<ul><li>
<b>A Higher-Order Logic for Concurrent Termination-Preserving Refinement</b><br/>
Joseph Tassarotti, Ralf Jung, Robert Harper<br>
- In <a href="http://www.etaps.org/index.php/2017/esop">ESOP 2017</a>: 26th European Symposium on Programming<br>
- [<a href="http://iris-project.org/pdfs/2017-esop-refinement-final.pdf">paper</a>] [<a href="https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~jtassaro/papers/iris-refinement/index.html">paper website</a> (incl. Coq formalization)]
+ <i>In <a href="https://www.etaps.org/index.php/2017/esop">ESOP 2017</a></i><br>
+ [<a href="https://iris-project.org/pdfs/2017-esop-refinement-final.pdf">paper</a>] [<a href="https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~jtassaro/papers/iris-refinement/index.html">paper website</a>]
</li></ul>
<h3>2016</h3>
<ul><li>
<b>Higher-Order Ghost State</b><br/>
Ralf Jung, Robbert Krebbers, Lars Birkedal, Derek Dreyer<br>
- In <a href="http://conf.researchr.org/home/icfp-2016">ICFP 2016</a>: 21st ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Functional Programming<br>
- [<a href="http
://iris-project.org/pdfs/2016-icfp-iris2-final.pdf">paper</a>] [<a href="http://plv.mpi-sws.org/iris/">project website</a> (incl. appendix and Coq formalization)] [<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUxWU-qvGX0" target="_blank">talk (YouTube)</a>] [<a href="iris/talk-icfp2016.pdf">talk (slides)</a>]
+ <i>In <a href="https://conf.researchr.org/home/icfp-2016">ICFP 2016</a></i><br>
+ [<a href="http
s://iris-project.org/pdfs/2016-icfp-iris2-final.pdf">paper</a>] [<a href="https://iris-project.org">project website</a>] [<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUxWU-qvGX0" target="_blank">talk (YouTube)</a>] [<a href="iris/talk-icfp2016.pdf">talk (slides)</a>]
</li></ul>
<h3>2015</h3>
<ul><li>
- <b>Unifying Worlds and Resources</b><br/>
- Ralf Jung, Derek Dreyer<br>
- In <a href="http://users-cs.au.dk/birke/hope-2015/">HOPE 2015</a>: 4th ACM SIGPLAN Workshop on Higher-Order Programming with Effects<br>
- [<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Dyna88piek&list=PLnqUlCo055hX6SsmMr1AmW6quMjvdMPvK&index=10" target="_blank">talk (YouTube)</a>] [<a href="iris/talk-hope2015.pdf">talk (slides)</a>]
+ <b>Iris: Monoids and Invariants as an Orthogonal Basis for Concurrent Reasoning</b><br/>
+ Ralf Jung, David Swasey, Filip Sieczkowski, Kasper Svendsen, Aaron Turon, Lars Birkedal, Derek Dreyer<br>
+ <i>In <a href="https://popl.mpi-sws.org/2015/">POPL 2015</a></i><br>
+ [<a href="https://iris-project.org/pdfs/2015-popl-iris1-final.pdf">paper</a>] [<a href="https://iris-project.org">project website</a>] [<a href="iris/talk-popl2015.pdf">talk (slides)</a>]
</li></ul>
+<h2>Theses</h2>
+
+<h3>2020</h3>
<ul><li>
- <b>Iris: Monoids and Invariants as an Orthogonal Basis for Concurrent Reasoning</b><br/>
- Ralf Jung, David Swasey, Filip Sieczkowski, Kasper Svendsen, Aaron Turon, Lars Birkedal, Derek Dreyer<br>
- In <a href="http://popl.mpi-sws.org/2015/">POPL 2015</a>: 42nd ACM SIGPLAN-SIGACT Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages<br>
- [<a href="http://iris-project.org/pdfs/2015-popl-iris1-final.pdf">paper</a>] [<a href="http://plv.mpi-sws.org/iris/">project website</a> (incl. appendix and Coq formalization)] [<a href="iris/talk-popl2015.pdf">talk (slides)</a>]
+ <b>Understanding and Evolving the Rust Programming Language</b><br/>
+ Ralf Jung<br>
+ <i>PhD Thesis</i><br>
+ [<a href="thesis.html">website</a>]
+</li></ul>
+
+
+<h3>2019</h3>
+<ul><li>
+ <b>Higher-Order Ghost State</b><br/>
+ Ralf Jung<br>
+ <i>Master Thesis</i><br>
+ [<a href="https://iris-project.org/pdfs/2016-icfp-iris2-final.pdf">based on this paper</a>]
</li></ul>
<h3>2013</h3>
<ul><li>
- <b>An Intermediate Language To Formally Justify Memory Access Reordering</b> (Bachelor's Thesis)<br/>
- Ralf Jung, Supervisor: Sebastian Hack, Advisor: Sigurd Schneider<br>
- [<a href="bachelor/bachelor.pdf">pdf</a>] [<a href="bachelor/bachelor-talk.pdf">slides</a>] [<a href="bachelor/bachelor.zip">coq</a>]
+ <b>An Intermediate Language To Formally Justify Memory Access Reordering</b><br/>
+ Ralf Jung<br>
+ <i>Bachelor Thesis</i><br>
+ [<a href="bachelor/bachelor.pdf">thesis</a>] [<a href="bachelor/bachelor-talk.pdf">slides</a>] [<a href="bachelor/bachelor.zip">coq</a>]
+</li></ul>
+
+<h2>Workshop Talks</h2>
+
+<h3>2020</h3>
+
+<ul><li>
+ <b>Stacked Borrows: An Aliasing Model for Rust</b><br/>
+ Ralf Jung<br>
+ <i>At <a href="https://agozillon.github.io/PRiML/">PRiML 2020</a> (invited talk)</i><br>
+ [<a href="rust/talk-priml2020.pdf">slides</a>]
+</li></ul>
+
+<h3>2019</h3>
+
+<ul><li>
+ <b>Logical Atomicity in Iris: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly</b><br/>
+ Ralf Jung<br>
+ <i>At <a href="https://iris-project.org/workshop-2019/">Iris Workshop 2019</a></i><br>
+ [<a href="iris/talk-iris2019.pdf">slides</a>]
+</li></ul>
+
+<h3>2015</h3>
+
+<ul><li>
+ <b>Unifying Worlds and Resources</b><br/>
+ Ralf Jung, Derek Dreyer<br>
+ <i>At <a href="https://users-cs.au.dk/birke/hope-2015/">HOPE 2015</a>: 4th ACM SIGPLAN Workshop on Higher-Order Programming with Effects</i><br>
+ [<a href="iris/talk-hope2015.pdf">slides</a>] [<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Dyna88piek&list=PLnqUlCo055hX6SsmMr1AmW6quMjvdMPvK&index=10" target="_blank">YouTube</a>]
</li></ul>
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