Akash Lal
Senior Principal Researcher
About
I am a member of the Programming Languages and Tools Group at Microsoft Research India. I am broadly interested in the areas of programming languages, verification and model checking with a focus on concurrent programs. I graduated with a PhD from the Computer Sciences Department (opens in new tab)of University of Wisconsin-Madison (opens in new tab), advised by Tom Reps (opens in new tab).
I’ve had the pleasure of mentoring a few Research Fellows (opens in new tab):
- Ankush Das (opens in new tab), contributed to the Angelic Verification (opens in new tab) project. Joined the PhD program at CMU.
- Rashmi Mudduluru (opens in new tab), contributed to the P# (opens in new tab) project. Joined the PhD program at University of Washington.
- Ajay Brahmakshatriya (opens in new tab), contributed to the TrustedCloud (opens in new tab) project. Joined the PhD program at MIT.
Awards
- EASST Best Software Science Paper Award, Industial-Strength Concurrency Testing with Coyote (opens in new tab), TACAS 2023.
- ACM Distinguished Paper Award, MonkeyDB: Effectively Testing Correctness Under Weak Isolation Levels (opens in new tab), OOPSLA 2021.
- ACM Distinguished Artifact Award, Learning-based Controlled Concurrency Testing (opens in new tab), OOPSLA 2020.
- Best Paper Award, Angelic Checking within Static Driver Verifier (opens in new tab), FMCAD 2020.
- ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award, Inferring Annotations For Device Drivers From Verification Histories (opens in new tab), ASE 2016.
- Best Paper Award, A Program Transformation for Faster Goal-Directed Search (opens in new tab), FMCAD 2014.
- ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award, Powering the Static Driver Verifier using Corral (opens in new tab), FSE 2014.
- ACM SIGPLAN Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award (opens in new tab), Interprocedural analysis and the verification of concurrent programs (opens in new tab), PhD Thesis, University of Wisconsin, 2009.
Service
I have served (or will serve) on several program committees: CAV 2023 (co-chair), PLDI 2023, POPL 2023, VSTTE 2022 (co-chair), PLDI 2022, FSE 2022, SAS 2021, FSE 2021, CAV 2021, PLDI 2020, CAV 2020, SAS 2019, CAV 2019, ECOOP 2019, POPL 2017, CAV 2016, TACAS 2016, CAV 2015, ICSE 2015, VMCAI 2015 (co-chair), ASE 2015 (ERC), EC2 2014 (co-chair), ASE 2014 (ERC), etc.