College of Computer and Information Science

Northeastern University
360 Huntington Avenue
Boston, Massachusetts 02115

Office: 202 West Village H, room 344
Phone:
++1-617-373-3100
Email:
wahl[ -- ät -- ]ccs.neu.edu
                                      Thomas Wahl                   
Northeastern University


NEW: I am organizing the FMCAD 2013 Student Forum, an opportunity for graduate students to present their (possibly early-stage, unfinished) research to the Formal Methods community. The submission deadline June 2.

NEW: I have several positions for ambitious NEU undergraduate students to participate in research projects. These positions give you the chance to gain initial experience in graduate-level research, which will likely be beneficial in job applications such as for Co-op. The positions also provide financial support. Before inquiring, check that you
  • are an NEU CS or ECE student, sophomore or above,
  • have done very well in introductory CS or ECE courses (ideally, CS 2800),
  • are willing to set aside a non-trivial amount of time for the research (e.g. you cannot be on Co-op the semester you plan to work with me), and
  • bring the enthusiasm necessary to take on stuff that is likely far beyond what you have been taught in classes so far.

If you satisfy these criteria, send me an email with a brief motivation statement.




What I've been up to:




Conference program or organizing committees:




Brief bio:

  • 2011 - present: Assistant Professor, Northeastern University, College of Computer and Information Science
  • 2009 - 2011: Research Assistant, Oxford University, Department of Computer Science (formerly "Computing Laboratory"), UK
  • 2007 - 2009: Lecturer and Postdoc, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, Switzerland
  • 2007, 2005: Ph.D. & M.S., University of Texas, Austin (supervised by E. Allen Emerson, who co-won the 2007 ACM Turing Award)
  • 1998: Invited Researcher, Advanced Telecommunications Research (ATR), Nara, Japan
  • 1997: University Diploma in Informatics, Würzburg, Germany




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General research interests:

  • Software verification, such as using predicate abstraction, SAT- and SMT solvers, decision procedures, interpolation;
  • Infinite-state system verification, such as modeling and analyzing arbitrarily replicated multi-threaded programs via counter systems and Petri nets;
  • Automata theory in formal verification, such as for LTL model checking

If you are a student and the above sound appealing to you (or you think they do, but you are not sure what they mean), read more about my current research under the links provided on the left. Then drop me an email or come by.



Research sponsors:


National Science
                                      Foundation SRC DARPA
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