<div dir="ltr"><p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-feature-settings:normal">Join <a href="https://lazkany.bitbucket.io/grants/syntm.html">the SynTM research </a><span style="text-decoration:underline">group </span>and be part of developing novel correct-by-design techniques for Cyber-Physical systems such as autonomous systems.<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-feature-settings:normal">This position is part of a joint call (see below) at the department of Computer Science and Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden. The position is salaried and fully funded for 5 years!.</p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-feature-settings:normal">The student will be placed in my group which is part of the Formal Methods research unit within the <a href="https://www.chalmers.se/en/departments/cse/our-research/computing-science/">Computing Science division</a> at the <a href="https://www.chalmers.se/en/departments/cse/">Computer Science and Engineering department of Chalmers | Gothenburg  university</a>. The unit and the broader division are lively environments with fun interactions between research areas such as Formal Verification, Functional Programming, Type Theory, Information Security and more. You will also have close contact with research leaders in the field such as Nir Piterman, Martin Fabian, and Gerardo Schneider.<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-feature-settings:normal"> </p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-feature-settings:normal">Our research involves developing theories and techniques for formal verification of autonomous systems, e.g., controller synthesis, planning, run-time verification, model checking, etc. Moreover, we are open to techniques that leverage the use of formal verification in machine learning.</p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-feature-settings:normal"> </p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-feature-settings:normal">Currently, we are actively developing specialised tools for reconfigurable concurrent systems (the ReCiPe formalism, the R-CHECK Model-Checker, and the SynTM synthesis engine). Early results appeared in venues such as AAMAS, ACC, JAAMAS etc.</p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-feature-settings:normal;min-height:15px"><br></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-feature-settings:normal">The position will be around verification of distributed autonomous systems sharing a physical space. The crucial point is how to efficiently model and reason about the space.</p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-feature-settings:normal">To apply:</p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-feature-settings:normal"><span class="gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">           </span>CS03<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space">    </span>Yehia Abd Alrahman<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space">  </span><a href="https://chalmers-my.sharepoint.com/:b:/g/personal/piterman_chalmers_se/ETyAf8TmsTtDvK5geCjeYtEBXuQgOlnbfeyyG3a4pWCphA?e=B3n45N">Correct-by-Design Techniques for Cyber-Physical Systems</a></p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-feature-settings:normal">Contact me for informal questions at: yehiaa [at]<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space">  </span>Chalmers [dot] se</p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-feature-settings:normal">Best Regards,</p>
<p style="margin:8px 0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-feature-settings:normal"><a href="https://www.chalmers.se/en/persons/yehiaa/">Yehia Abd Alrahman</a></p>
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