<div dir="ltr"><p style="font-size:13px;margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;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" target="_blank">the SynTM research project</a> and be part of developing novel correct-by-design techniques for autonomous systems. </p><p style="font-size:13px;margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;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="font-size:13px;margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;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 grant, named SynTM (from the Swedish Research Council), on automatic synthesis of programs for autonomous systems. Early results appeared in venues such as AAMAS, ACC, JAAMAS etc. Our goal is to build correct-by-design techniques for autonomous systems, including (but not limited to) controller synthesis.</p><p style="font-size:13px;margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;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="font-size:13px;margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;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">My group is part of the Formal Methods unit within the <a href="https://www.chalmers.se/en/departments/cse/our-research/computing-science/" target="_blank">Computing Science division</a> at the <a href="https://www.chalmers.se/en/departments/cse/" target="_blank">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.  We have also close contact with research leaders in the field such as Nir Piterman, Martin Fabian, and Gerardo Schneider. </p><p style="font-size:13px;margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;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="font-size:13px;margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;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="font-size:13px;margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;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="font-size:13px;margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;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). Concrete tasks may involve (but not limited to) advance the development of existing theories and tools, developing simulation and case studies that showcase the practical impact of existing theories. However, there are opportunities to broaden the reach of activities based on mutual interests.</p><p style="font-size:13px;margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;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="font-size:13p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