I am assistant professor at ETH Zürich, leading the Programming Language Foundations Lab. -We are part of the Institute for Programming Languages and Systems. +We are part of the Institute for Programming Languages and Systems in the Department of Computer Science. Previously, I completed my PhD at MPI-SWS and Saarland University in Saarbrücken, Germany; my advisor was Derek Dreyer. I also did a post-doc in the PDOS group at MIT CSAIL.
@@ -17,11 +17,14 @@ Please explain why you are interested in a PhD in this field and what your prior Note that doing a PhD at ETH Zürich generally requires a Master's degree, but there is a direct doctorate program that you can enter with a Bachelor's degree (application deadline December 15th). -->My two main lines of work are about Rust and Iris.
-On the Rust side, I am working (also in collaboration with the Rust language team) towards a solid formal foundation for the language, including in particular the unsafe parts.
-One key result here is our type safety proof, which also describes a methodology for establishing type safety of well-encapsulated unsafe code.
-My goal is to make unsafe Rust just as safe as safe Rust by means of formal verification.
-On the Iris side, besides continuing development of its logical foundations, I am interested in applying Iris to new problem domains; recently I started working on modular verification of fault-tolerant distributed system components.
-For some more information, check out my research blog, my CV, and my research statement.
In my free time, I like to run internet services myself and work on free software. This goes hand-in-hand with my pursuit of defending our privacy rights and our freedom in the digital world.