Name:Alexandra Mendes

Bio:

I am an Assistant Professor at Department of Informatics Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto and I co-lead the Software Reliability Lab. I was a recipient of the Amazon Research Award in Automated Reasoning in the Fall 2024 for the project “Overcoming Barriers to the Adoption of Verification-Aware Languages”. I was also awarded the Atlantic Security Award.

In the Fall 2026, I am also a Guest Professor in the Informatics Department at TU Wien. In the Spring 2026, I was a Visiting Researcher at University College London in the CREST group. In 2023, I was a Visiting Researcher at Carnegie Mellon University under the CMU Portugal Program, hosted at CyLab Security and Privacy Institute. I am also a member of the Formal Methods Teaching Committee and a Fellow of The Higher Education Academy (HEA).

My research focuses on encouraging a wider adoption of software verification by creating tools and methods that hide the complexities of verifying software. Much of my most recent work overlaps with the area of software engineering.

Country:Portugal

Affiliation:Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto, Portugal