Thomas Neele

I am an Assistant Professor at the Eindhoven University of Technology(TU/e) in the group Formal System Analysis. I am the Managing Director of the IPA research school. My research interests are the analysis of concurrent behaviour and its associated scalability problems. In the context of model checking, I study symbolic techniques, syntactic transformations for reduction, and partial-order reduction. My other interests are fixpoint logics, parallel programming and automata learning. To support my research on model checking, I received a Veni personal grant from NWO for the project "Explainable Formal Methods with Certificates".

Previously, I was a postdoc at Royal Holloway, University of London(RHUL), working on model learning of concurrent automata in the CLeVer project. I carried out my PhD at the TU/e-FSA group; my thesis titled "Reductions for Parity Games and Model Checking" received the IPA dissertation award. I finished both my bachelor and master in Computer Science at the University of Twente. As part of the curriculum, I visited the Trustworthy and Intelligent Systems group at Chinese Academy of Sciences for an internship in the summer of 2015.

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Obtained Veni grant

I am very happy that my proposal "Explainable Formal Methods with Certificates" has been awarded a Veni grant by NWO (the Dutch research council)! Veni is a personal grant for early-carreer researchers in the Netherlands. I am looking forward to doing fundamental research on efficient certifying model checkers!

The paper AuDaLa is Turing Complete that I wrote together with Tom Franken has been accepted at FORTE 2024!

Today I started as Managing Director of IPA. I am looking forward to many interesting talks and fruitful interactions at one of the IPA events. First on the planning is a course on software engineering.

I am PC co-chair of SPIN 2024. This 30th edition introduces artifact evaluation and features an anniversary track for historical accounts and other papers of broad interest. See the call.

The TU/e will host SEFM 2023 in Eindhoven, November 6-10. I am one of the local organisers, hope to see you there.

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