We're delighted to announce that Shriram Krishnamurthi has received one of NSF's sought-after CAREER grants. To quote from the NSF web page, "The Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program is a Foundation-wide activity that offers the National Science Foundation's most prestigious awards in support of the early career-development activities of those teacher-scholars who are most likely to become the academic leaders of the 21st century." Congratulations, Shriram!
Shriram's CAREER project is called "Formal verification of aspect-oriented software"; its abstract reads:
Module systems have grown significantly in scope and sophistication. The most recent innovations have been in the space of so-called aspects, which provide modularity mechanisms that blur the line between static and dynamic composition. The creation of innovative module mechanisms gives programmers new powers, but in turn also makes it possible for them to introduce ever more subtle errors into software. This potential for new kinds of errors places a greater burden on verification techniques. These techniques have, however, failed to keep pace with advances in software modularity.
This proposal will advance the state of research in computer-aided verification for the forms of modularity introduced by aspects. It will generate new theories of modular verification that address the different styles of aspect modularities. This work is, therefore, an instance of a larger research program that seeks synergies in the confluence of software engineering, programming languages and computer-aided verification.
