Imperial College London has two open positions on session types and programming languages (see details below). If you have any questions, do not hesitate to contact Prof. Nobuko Yoshida on n.yoshida@imperial.ic.ac.uk. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Department of Computing, Imperial College London Two Research Associate Positions (Post-doc, Full Time) 32,380 GBP to 44,220 GBP per annum Fixed-term: Starting date: as soon as possible Ending date: 19 May 2020 Closing Date: 30th June 2018 Professor Nobuko Yoshida, Imperial College London The post is funded by EPSRC, the UK science funding agency and the titles of the project is "From Data Types to Session Types: A Basis for Concurrency and Distribution". The goal is to further develop the theory and practice of session types for structuring concurrent and distributed software. The project has particular emphasis on putting theory into practice, by embedding session types in a range of programming languages and applying them to case studies; or developing the links between session types and other areas of theoretical computer science. The research programme includes collaboration with several companies and organisations: Amazon, Red Hat, Cognizant, Estafet, Weaveworks and JP Morgan. The focus of Imperial College London Group is theories and applications of (Multiparty) Session Types (JACM,POPL'08), which include: -- Go (ICSE'18, POPL'17, CC'16), F# (CC'18), Scala (ECOOP'17,ECOOP'16), Erlang (CC'17), Haskell (POPL'16), Java (FASE'16,FASE'17), MPI (OOPSLA'15,CC'15), C (FPL'16) and Python (FOAC,LMCS,FMSD); or -- linear logic (ESOP'18,FoSSaCs'18,CONCUR'15), automata theories (POPL'15,CONCUR'15,TACAS'16,FoSSaCs'17), ICC (LICS'18), bisimualtions (CONCUR'15,ESOP'16) and other foundations such as event structures and game semantics. -- mechanisations of session types meta-theory (Coq, Isabelle, Agda, etc) For more details, see http://mrg.doc.ic.ac.uk Candidates for the post-doc position will need to have expertise in either: 1. programming language design and implementation; or 2. formal semantics, type theory and concurrency theory Different positions will be suitable for different points on the theory/practice spectrum. We are especially interested in candidates with a combination of theoretical and practical skills. The contact person is Professor Nobuko Yoshida, Imperial College London (N.Yoshida@imperial.ac.uk) Details: https://www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/description/ENG00367/research-assistant-rese...