Software Performance and Correctness

Software Performance

• Low-energy computing
• Compilers and parallelization for multicore
• Algorithm design for parallelism & locality

Foundations of Computation

• Programming abstractions for parallel computing
• Proof techniques for software correctness
• Verification & static analysis for critical systems

Sample Applications Areas

• Smart embedded, mobile and space systems
• Safety-critical medical systems

Faculty Members

Staff Name, Research Group & Centres	Research Interests	Publications
Barrett, Stephen	Social Software Engineering, Computational Social Science.
Botterweck, Goetz	Software Engineering, Model-driven Software Engineering, Software Product Lines
Butterfield, Andrew	Formal Methods; Unifying Theories of Programming ; Concurrency Theory; Language Semantics; Theorem Provers/Logics; Kernel Verification; Probability & Priority
Donnelly, Alexis	Process Calculus - applications to Distributed Systems and (more recently) Biological Systems; Web Accessibility; Universal Design
Dukes, Jonathan	Wireless Sensor Networks, Low-Power Wireless Communication, Embedded Systems, High-Throughput Computing, Multimedia Streaming.
Gregg, David LERO	Software performance optimization, embedded computing, low-energy computing, compilers, deep neural networks on embedded systems, multicore computing, processor microarchitecture, algorithms
Hughes, Arthur	Mathematical foundations of programming languages, formal specification of software systems, rigorous software development, algorithmic problem solving, encryption, category theory.
Koutavas, Vasileios LERO	Programming Languages, Concurrency, Formal Methods, Software Verification.
Strong, Glenn	Functional Programming, Programming language design, type theory, formal methods, computational thinking, programming and computer science education
Ventresque, Anthony	Software Engineering, Software Testing, Software Quality
Waldron, John	Computer Architecture; Learning Technology