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ALEXANDRA SILVA (version of April 14, 2020) Programming Principles, Logic and Verification Group Phone: +44 (0) 20 7679 2000 (UCL main) Dept. of Computer Science +44 7470078481 (mobile) University College London Email: [email protected] Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom Url: http://www.alexandrasilva.org Year of birth : 1984 Citizenship: Portuguese Languages : Portuguese (Native), English (Fluent), Dutch (Fluent), French (Fluent), Spanish (Basic) Education • PhD in Computer Science, cum laude October 2006 – December 2010 Financed by a personal grant from the Portuguese science foundation (FCT) Degree awarded by the Radboud University Nijmegen Research carried out in the Dutch National Research center for Mathematics and Computer Science (CWI) Thesis title: Kleene Coalgebra Supervisors: Jan Rutten and Marcello Bonsangue • Licenciatura in Mathematics and Computer Science September 2001 – May 2006 Universidade do Minho, Braga, Portugal Final thesis title: Strong Types for Relational Data Stored in Databases or Spreadsheets Final Classification: 19/20 (best average grade among all degrees in the University of Minho) • Socrates/Erasmus student September 2003 – Feb 2004 University of Bristol, United Kingdom Main subjects: Group theory, Data analysis and Computer Graphics • High School September 1995 – Jul 2001 Escola Secundária Fernão de Magalhães, Chaves, Portugal Main subjects: Mathematics, Chemistry, Physics and Geometry Final Classification: 19/20 Employment Full Professor, University College London, United Kingdom. October 2017 – present • Professor of Algebra, Semantics, and Computation. Royal Society Wolfson Fellow (January 2019–December 2023) Senior lecturer, University College London, United Kingdom. September 2015 – September 2017 • Assistant professor, Radboud University, The Netherlands. September 2011 – August 2015 • Tenured since September 2012. Guest researcher at CWI, The Netherlands. September 2011 – August 2015 • Guest researcher at HASLab / INESC TEC, Braga, Portugal. September 2011 – present • Post-doc at CWI, The Netherlands. September 2010 – August 2011 • PhD Student at CWI, The Netherlands. October 2006 – September 2010 • Teaching assistant at University of Minho March 2006 – June 2006 • Researcher at Formal Methods Group, University of Minho. May 2005 – February 2006 • 1 of 23 Teaching assistant at University of Minho October 2004 – June 2005 • Intern at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research July 2004 – September 2004 • Junior Researcher at Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation October 2002 – August 2003 • Visiting positions • Long-term visitor, Simons Institute, Berkeley, CA, USA. January 2021 – April 2021 • Visiting Professor, University Wisconsin-Madison, WI, USA. February 2020 – January 2021 • Visiting scholar, Indiana University, Blomington, IN, USA. July 2015 • Invited researcher, Oxford University, United Kingdom. April – May 2015 • Invited professor, École Normale Superieure de Lyon (Équipe Plume), France. January 2015 • Invited professor, École Normale Superieure de Lyon (Équipe Plume), France. Feb. – March 2014 • Visiting scholar, Indiana University, Blomington, IN, USA. August 2013 • Invited professor, École Normale Superieure de Lyon (Équipe Plume), France. April – May 2013 • Visiting researcher, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA. March – August 2011 • Visiting researcher, Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica, The Netherlands June – September 2006 Research group • PhD students 1. William Smith, 2020 – present (second supervisor, main supervisor: Fredrik Dahlqvist) 2. Jana Wagemaker, 2019 – present. (Joint with Radboud university, main supervisors Marcello Bonsangue and Jurriaan Rot). 3. Elli Anastasiadi, 2019 – present. (Based at Reykjavik university, main supervisors Luca Aceto and Anna Ingolfsdottir). 4. Tao Gu, 2018 – present. (second supervisor, main supervisor: Fabio Zanasi) 5. Stefan Zetzsche, 2018 – present. 6. Gerco van Heerdt, 2016 – present. 7. Tobias Kappe, 2016 – present. 8. Louis Parlant, 2016 – present. 9. Joshua Moerman, PhD 2019 (promotor: Frits Vaandrager, co-promotor: Bas Terwijn). 10. Heidy Khlaaf, PhD 2018 (joint with Nir Piterman). 11. Bram Westerbaan, 2013 – 2014 (promotors: Jan Rutten and Herman Geuvers). 12. Georgiana Caltais, PhD 2013 (promotors: Jan Rutten and Anna Ingolfsdottir; co-promotor: Marcello Bonsangue). 13. Young-Joo Moon, PhD 2011 (promotor: Farhad Arbad; co-promotor: Erik de Vink). • Postdocs 1. Gerco van Heerdt (March 2020 – present). 2. Bas Westerbaan (September 2019 – present). 3. Jurriaan Rot (February 2019 – January 2020, Marie Curie Fellow). 4. Justin Hsu (September 2017 – March 2018). 5. Paul Brunet (January 2017 – October 2018). 2 of 23 6. Fredrik Dahlqvist (July 2016 – January 2019, September 2019 – present). 7. Matteo Sammartino (2015 – 2019). 8. Daniela Petrisan (2014 – 2015). • Master students 1. Gerco van Heerdt, 2015-2016. • Visitors 1. Steffen Smolka, Cornell University, 2017 (three-month visit). 2. Elvira Albert and Albert Rubio, Madrid University, 2017-2018 (six-month visit). 3. Renato Neves, Universidade do Minho, 2016 (one-month visit). 4. Jan Rutten, CWI & Radboud University, 2017 (one-month visit). 5. Joshua Moerman, Radboud University, 2017 (three-month visit). 6. Benjamin Kaminski, Aachen University, 2016-2017 (four-month visit). 7. David Frutos-Escrig, Madrid University, 2016 (two-week visit). 8. Renato Neves, Universidade do Minho, 2016 (one-month visit). 9. Joshua Moerman, Radboud University, 2016 (three-month visit). 10. Renato Neves, Universidade do Minho, 2015 (three-week visit). 11. Konstantinos Mamouras, Cornell University, 2014 (one semester visit). 12. Dexter Kozen, Cornell University, 2014 (one semester visit). 13. Georgiana Caltais, Reykjavik University, 2013 (three-month visit). 14. Louis Parlant, ENS Lyon, 2013 (three-month visit). 15. Jean-Baptiste Jeannin, Cornell University, 2013 (two-week visit). 16. Tomaz Brengos, Warsaw University of Technology, 2013 (two-week visit). 17. Ricardo Oliveira, Minho University, 2013 (one-month visit). 18. Georgiana Caltais, Reykjavik University, 2012 (three-month visit). 19. Dexter Kozen, Cornell University, 2012 (two-month visit). For short-term (less than two-week) visitors, see below. Professional Activities and Service • Invited Speaker 1. WiL 2020, 4th Women in Logic Workshop, 2020. 2. LPAR-23, 23rd International Conference on Logic for Programming, Artificial Intelligence and Reasoning, 2020. 3. SEN symposium, 6th Dutch national symposium on software engineering, 2020. 4. POPL 2020, Tutorial Fest, 2020. 5. FSTTCS 2019, 39th IARCS Annual Conference on Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science, 2019. 6. MFCS 2019, 44th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Sci- ence, 2019. 7. VECoS 2018, 12th International Conference on Verification and Evaluation of Computer and Communication Systems. 8. SYSMICS logic summer school, 2018. 9. CiE 2018, Computability in Europe, 2018. 3 of 23 10. BCTCS 2018, British Colloquium for Theoretical Computer Science, 2018. 11. FSCD 2017, Second International Conference on Formal Structures for Computation and De- duction, 2017. 12. TACL 2017, Topology, Algebra, and Categories in Logic, 2017. 13. LearnAut 2017, First workshop on Learning and Automata, 2017. 14. RAMiCS 2017, 16th International Conference on Relational and Algebraic Methods in Com- puter Science, 2017. 15. Compositionality workshop, Simons Institute Berkeley, 2016. 16. CWI Lectures in honour of Adriaan van Wijngaarden (100th anniversary), 2016. 17. CSL 2016, 25th EACSL Annual Conference on Computer Science Logic, 2016. 18. BLC 2016, British Logic Colloqium, 2016. 19. ICE 2016, 9th Interaction and Concurrency Experience, 2016. 20. WIP 2016, Workshop on Information and processes, 2016. 21. CMCS 2016, 13th International Workshop on Coalgebraic Methods in Computer Science, 2016 (invited tutorial speaker). 22. WoLLIC 2015, 22nd Workshop on Logic, Language, Information and Computation, 2015 (in- vited talk and invited tutorial). 23. TOPDRIM 2015, International School and Conference on Topology and Data, 2015. 24. CONCUR 2015, 26th Conference on Concurrency Theory, 2015. 25. TRENDS 2014, organized by IFIP WG 1.8 on Concurrency Theory, 2014. 26. Thirtieth Conference on the Mathematical Foundations of Programming Semantics, 2014. 27. Workshop in honour of Prakash Panangaden, 2014. 28. 11th Asian Symposium on Programming Languages and Systems, 2013. 29. 9th workshop on Fixed points in Computer Science, 2013. 30. Tenth International Tbilisi Symposium on Language, Logic and Computation, 2013. 31. Doctoral Symposium, University of Porto, 2011. • Editorial boards and executive committees 1. Editorial Board of Mathematical Logic Quarterly. 2. ACM SIGLOG executive committee member (secretary, 2012-2018). 3. Editorial Board of Logical Methods in Computer Science. 4. ACM SIGLOG conference committee chair. 5. Editorial board of the Journal of Logical and Algebraic Methods in Programming, Elsevier (special issues’ editor, 2014-2019). • Steering committees and special interest groups 1. Programming Languages Mentoring Workshop (PLMW, 2018 – present, chair 2020). 2. Logic Mentoring Workshop (LMW, 2016 – present, chair 2017-2020). 3. IFIP International Conference on Formal Techniques for Distributed Objects, Components and Systems (FORTE, 2017 – present) 4. FoPSS summer school series (2016 – present, SIGLOG representative). 5. Annual ACM/IEEE Symposium on Logic In Computer Science (LICS, 2015 – present). 6. International workshop on Coalgebraic