Name:António Ravara

Bio:

Associate Professor at the Department of Informatics, Faculty of Sciences and Technology, NOVA University of Lisbon, Portugal (since October 2018). Founding member and Integrated researcher at the NOVA Laboratory for Computer Science and Informatics (NOVA LINCS), Portugal (since 2013). Assistant Professor at the Department of Informatics, Faculty of Sciences and Technology, NOVA University of Lisbon, Portugal ()2009 to 2018). Assistant Professor at the Section of Logic and Computation of the Department of Mathematics of IST. Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal (2000 to 2009).

PhD in Mathematics at IST, of the Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal (December 2000). MSc in Applied Mathematics at IST of the Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal (May 1996). BSc in Geographical Engineering at the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon, Portugal (September 1991).

Main research problem is how to ensure that inherently concurrent, highly distributed, software systems behave correctly. The focus is on the development of techniques, program constructions, and tools that help creating safe and well-behaved systems, provably providing correctness guarantees. The toolbox used includes static analysis of source code, capturing defects before deployment, with decidable, low complexity, property-driven, proof systems, using behavioural descriptions of programs.

Country:Portugal

Affiliation:Nova University of Lisbon

Research interests:Logic in Computer Science; Semantics of Programming Languages; Program Analysis; Concurrency; Behavioural Types and Type Tystems