Research
My work focuses on the definition of
multi-paradigm computation models and associated programming
languages, and the development of tools for the
specification, analysis and verification of complex systems, such as
biological systems, telecommunications or mobile software
applications.
Main research topics:
Programming languages: Types, Semantics, Security.
Rewrite-based computation models: term and graph rewriting, lambda-calculus, interaction nets.
Software Modelling and Applied Logic Group
Publications
Current and recent research projects:
PORGY - Interactive Analysis and Visualisation of Port Graph Rewriting Systems
INRIA Associated team programme (GRAVITE- INRIA Bordeaux)
Dependent types for nominal terms, Royal Society International Joint Project (King's College London, University ORT Uruguay).
A logical framework based on a nominal dependent type system is described here (comments welcome).
Computational Applications of Nominal Sets (CANS), funded by the EPSRC.
Implementing Access Control Mechanisms using Rewriting Techniques, EU FP6 (Marie-Curie).
Journals:
Logic and Computation - Rewriting Corner
LMS Journal of Computation and Mathematics
ISRN Computational Mathematics
EAPLS PhD Awards
IFCoLog
Events:
LSFA 2012, Logical and Semantic Frameworks, with Applications, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil, 28-29 September 2012. Invited Speaker
PROLE 2012, Almeria, Spain, 18-19 September 2012. Invited Speaker
LOPSTR 2012, 22nd International Symposium on Logic-Based Program Synthesis and Transformation, Belgium, September 2012. PC member.
WOLLIC 2012, 19th Workshop on Logic, Language, Information and Computation, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, September, 2012. PC member.
MFCS 2012, 37th
International Symposium on
Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science, Bratislava, Slovakia,
27-31 August 2012.
IWS 2012, at IJCAR 2012, Manchester, June 2012. PC Co-Chair.
LICS 2012, IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science, Dubrovnic, Croatia, June 2012. PC member.
UNIF, the International Workshop on Unification. SC member (2011-2015). UNIF 2012, with IJCAR, Manchester, July 2012. PC member.
CiE-IFCoLog Student Session 2012, with CiE 2012, TURING CENTENARY CONFERENCE, 18-23 June 2012, University of Cambridge.
PC member.
Lambda 2012, Int. Workshop 75 years of Lambda Calculus, University of St Andrews, UK, 15 June 2012. Associated to TFP 2012 (Int Symposium on Trends in Functional Programming).
TERMGRAPH, a bi-anual series of Int. Workshops on Computing with Terms and Graphs, at ETAPS. SC member.
IFIP Working Group 1.6 on Term Rewriting.
PPDP - ACM Sigplan International Symposium on Principles and Practice of Declarative Languages. SC member.
LICS, IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science. Workshops Co-Chair, Organising Committee member.
DCM,
annual Int. Workshop on Developments in Computational Models - SC member.
Current and former PhD Students:
Abiar Al-Homaimeedi, Fahad Alarifi, Asad Ali, Christophe Calvès, Elliot Fairweather, Fabien Fleutot, Lionel Khalil,
Olivier Namet, Daniele Nantes, Nikolaos Siafakas, Francois-Régis Sinot, Jeffrey Terrell, Matthew Walker.
Teaching
5CCS2PLD: Programming Language Design. Book: Programming Languages and Operational Semantics
6CCS3COM and 7CCSMCOM: Computation Models. Book: Models of computation - An introduction to computability theory.
BSc/MSci Project Supervision.
Administration
Senior Tutor (Undergraduate Programmes), Student-Staff Liaison Committee chair.
Member of the Dept. Research, Teaching, and Systems committees.
Member of the College Subject Area Board (SAB) Natural and Mathematical Sciences.