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Ilya SERGEY

Associate Professor

  • Ph.D. (Computer Science, KU Leuven, Belgium, 2012)
  • M.Sc. (Mathematics and Computer Science, Saint Petersburg State University, Russia, 2008)

Ilya Sergey is an Associate Professor at the School of Computing of National University of Singapore, where he leads the Verified Systems Engineering lab. Ilya got his PhD in Computer Science at KU Leuven. Before joining NUS, he was a postdoctoral researcher at IMDEA Software Institute and a faculty at University College London. Prior to becoming an academic, he worked as a software developer at JetBrains. Ilya does research in programming language design and implementation, distributed systems, software verification, and program synthesis. He is a recipient of several distinguished paper awards at POPL and PLDI, the 2019 Dahl-Nygaard Junior Prize, Yale-NUS Distinguished Researcher award, and academic research awards from Google, Facebook, and Amazon.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

  • Design and Implementation of Programming Languages

  • Applied Logic for Software Verification

  • Concurrent and Distributed Systems

RESEARCH PROJECTS

Automated Proof Evolution for Verified Software Systems

This project automates proof evolution for verified software systems, adapting proofs to changing specs and programs. It emphasizes Separation Logic, aiming to advance beyond proof-of-concept stage for real-world systems.


Practical Automated Testing of Distributed Systems

TRL 4

RESEARCH GROUPS

Verified Systems Engineering

We do research in the design and implementation of programming languages (PL), mathematical models of computation, and computer-assisted formal reasoning. We investigate the theoretical foundations of programming and build tools for ensuring that certain kinds of costly software errors and vulnerabilities never occur in the real-world code, which many people rely upon in their everyday lives.


TEACHING INNOVATIONS

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

  • Mostly Automated Proof Repair for Verified Libraries. Kiran Gopinathan, Mayank Keoliya, and Ilya Sergey. PLDI'23
  • Cyclic Program Synthesis. Shachar Itzhaky, Hila Peleg, Nadia Polikarpova, Reuben Rowe, and Ilya Sergey. PLDI'21
  • Practical Smart Contract Sharding with Ownership and Commutativity Analysis. George Pîrlea, Amrit Kumar, and Ilya Sergey. PLDI'21
  • Certifying Certainty and Uncertainty in Approximate Membership Query Structures. Kiran Gopinathan, and Ilya Sergey. CAV'20
  • Safer Smart Contract Programming with Scilla. Ilya Sergey, Vaivaswatha Nagaraj, Jacob Johannsen, Amrit Kumar, Anton Trunov, Ken Chan. OOPSLA'19
  • Structuring the Synthesis of Heap-Manipulating Programs. Nadia Polikarpova and Ilya Sergey. POPL'19
  • Programming and Proving with Distributed Protocols. Ilya Sergey, James R. Wilcox, and Zachary Tatlock. POPL'18

AWARDS & HONOURS

  • CPP'24 Distinguished Paper Award for the work "Rooting for Efficiency: Mechanised Reasoning about Array-Based Trees in Separation Logic"

  • Google Research Award (South Asia & Southeast Asia) 2023

  • ACM SIGPLAN Distinguished Paper Award (PLDI'23) for the work "Mostly Automated Proof Repair for Verified Libraries"

  • ACM SIGPLAN Distinguished Paper Award (PLDI'21) for the work "Cyclic Program Synthesis"

  • Yale-NUS Distinguished Researcher Award for 2021

  • AITO Dahl-Nygaard Junior Prize for 2019

  • ACM SIGPLAN Distinguished Paper Award (POPL'19) for the work "Structuring the Synthesis of Heap-Manipulating Programs"

  • Google Faculty Research Award 2017

MODULES TAUGHT

CS4212
Compiler Design
CS6217
Topics in Prog. Languages & Software Engineering

 

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Faculty Teaching Excellence Award 2024
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22 June 2023
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11 June 2021
11 June 2021 – NUS Computing and Yale-NUS College Associate Professor Ilya Sergey has won the Distinguished Paper Award from the 42nd ACM SIGPLAN Conference ...