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Research Interests
In the past his research interests
were related with different areas
like: meta-heuristic optimization
and code parallelization for
the exploitation of heterogeneous
computer architectures like HPC
and embedded platforms. Now
at IMDEA Software Institute he is
applying his previous experience to
work on automatic transformation
of programs for tackling the complexity
of efficiently programming
heterogeneous platforms.
Research Interests
Vincent is interested in automatic
analysis of programs and in the formal
verification of such analyses
on semantic grounds. More specifically,
he focuses on the automatic
proof of program equivalence using
product programs, the analysis of
smart contracts from the Ethereum
block-chain, and the compilation of
C programs to circuits to use them
in cryptographic protocols. Most of
the analyses he implements are formally
verified using the Coq proof
assistant.
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Guillermo Vigueras
Postdoctoral Researcher
Vincent Laporte
Postdoctoral Researcher
Guillermo Vigueras joined IMDEA
Software Institute as a postdoctoral
researcher in November 2013. He
received his Ph.D. degree in Computer
Science from University of
Valencia (Spain). During his Ph.D.
he did several internships at different
European institutions and
research groups like the Distributed
Systems and Middleware Group at
INRIA-Rennes, under the supervision
of Thierry Priol. Before joining
IMDEA, he worked as a postdoctoral
researcher at the Biomedical
Engineering Department of King’s
College London (KCL) and the
IMDEA Materials Institute, where
he worked within multidisciplinary
teams for computer simulation of
different scientific and engineering
problems. During his stay at KCL
he developed the first GPU implementation
of human cardiac electromechanical
models for assisting
in patient specific diagnosis.
Vincent Laporte joined the IMDEA
Software Institute as a post-doctoral
researcher in January 2016. He
received his Ph.D. in Computer Science
from the University Rennes
1, France, in 2015, under the
supervision of Sandrine Blazy and
David Pichardie. During his Ph.D.,
he contributed to the implementation
and the formal verification of
the Verasco static analyzer.