Hello, I am Ankit Kumar …

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In Akko, during Federated Logic Conference 2022.

… a sixth year PhD student working with Prof. Panagiotis Manolios at Khoury College, Northeastern University. My research interests lie in Formal Methods, Theorem Proving and Disproving, Decision Procedures, Programming Languages and Distributed systems.

In my free time, I like to dabble in astrophotography as well as play chess and tabletennis.

News

Publications

Talks

Caraxes: Tracking Critical Data in the Cloud

<2022-09-02 Fri> End of internship talk at Amazon, where Drew Walter and I showed how to "lift" taint analysis from code level to cloud level, and also demoed a prototype tool we developed called Caraxes. The slides and video of this talk are available in the Amazon internal network.

Mathematical Programming Modulo Strings (Invited Talk at Boston Computational Club)

<2021-10-15 Fri> Talked about my first FMCAD paper on Mathematical Programming Modulo Strings.

Automated Grading of Automata with ACL2s

<2022-07-11 Mon> Talk on automatic grading and feedback generation for Theory of Computation assignments using the ACL2s theorem prover, during ThEdu '21.

History of Rank Polymorphic Type Systems in Array Programming Languages

Lecture notes for a seminar on type systems for array programming languages covering APL, implicit scaling, Haskell and Remora.

Dependently Typed Proof Assistants

Lecture notes for a seminar on the implementation of dependently typed proof assistants, comparing and contrasting NuPRL and Coq proof assistants.

Honors and Awards

Teaching

I have been a TA for the following courses: Algorithms (A), Logic and Computation (LC), Theory of Computation (TC) and Computer Aided Reasoning (CAR).

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