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Frank Pfenning
Curriculum Vitæ
2002-present |
Professor of Computer Science |
2013-2018 |
Joseph F. Traub Professor and Head, Computer Science Department |
2009-2010 |
Associate Dean for Graduate Education, School of Computer Science
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2004-2008 |
Director of Graduate Programs, Computer Science Department |
1999-2002 |
Associate Professor of Computer Science |
1994-1999 |
Senior Research Computer Scientist |
1988-1994 |
Research Computer Scientist |
1986-1988 |
Research Associate |
Jan-Aug 2019 |
Visiting Professor, Brown University
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Jun-Jul 2006 |
Visiting Professor
LIX at �cole Polytechnique and INRIA-Futurs
Palaiseau, France
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Jan-Jun 1996 |
Visiting Professor
Departments of Mathematics
and Computer Science,
Technical University Darmstadt, Germany
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Jun-Aug 1991 |
Visiting Scientist
Max-Planck Institute for Computer Science
Saarbr�cken, Germany
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1981-1986 |
Department of Mathematics, Carnegie Mellon University
Ph.D. January 1987
Thesis: Proof Transformations in Higher-Order Logic
Advisor: Professor Peter B. Andrews
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1980-1981 |
Department of Mathematics, Carnegie Mellon University,
M.S. May 1981 |
1977-1980 |
Departments of Mathematics and Computer Science, Technical University Darmstadt
Vordiplom April 1979 |
1968-1977 |
Max-Planck-Gymnasium, R�sselsheim, Abitur 1977 |
1964-1968 |
Albrecht-D�rer-Schule, R�sselsheim |
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2021 PPDP 10 Year Most Influential Paper Award for Dependent
Session Types via Intuitionistic Linear Type Theory,
PPDP'11 (with Bernardo Toninho and Luís Caires).
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2016 LICS Test of Time Award for A Linear Logical
Framework, LICS'96 (with Iliano Cervesato).
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Named Fellow of the ACM, for contributions to the logical foundations of
automatic theorem proving and types for programming languages, 2015.
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Herbert A. Simon
Award for Teaching Excellence in Computer Science,
School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, May 2002.
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Jugend Forscht,
State Champion Hessen, Mathematics/Computer Science, 1975.
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Alexander-von-Humboldt Fellowship,
Technical University Darmstadt, 1996
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Research Fellowship, Carnegie Mellon University, 1981-1986
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Fulbright Scholarship,
Carnegie Mellon University, 1980-1981
Born in R�sselsheim, Hessen, Germany
German citizen, U.S. permanent resident
Married to Nancy Pfenning, Lecturer Emeritus,
Department of Statistics, University of Pittsburgh
Children Andreas and Marina
One brother (Robert)
and one sister (Katja Funke)
- CMU Faculty Review Committee, 2020-present.
- CMU Academic Calendar Committee, 2020-present.
- Cybersecurity and Privacy Education Committee, 2014-2016, 2019-present.
- Speakers Club, 2001-present.
- Computational Biology Head Search Committee (chair), 2019-2020.
- SCS Council, 1991-1996, 2004-2010, 2013-2018.
- Task Force on the CMU Experience, 2016-2017.
- OSP/ORIC Advisory Committee, 2013-2015.
- CSD Faculty Search Committee, 2012, 2013 (chair).
- University Research Review Committee, 2007-2012.
- Coordinator for SCS Dual Degree Programs with Portugal, 2007-2012.
- Computer Science MS Degree Committee, 2010 (chair), 2011 (member).
- Introductory CS Curriculum Committee, 2009-2010.
- Associate Dean for Graduate Eduction, 2009-2010.
- Academic Review Board, 2001-2008.
- Departmental Review Committee (DRC), 1992-2001; chair 2004-2008.
- CMU Graduate Student Service Award Committee, 2006.
- CMU Barbara Lazarus Award Committee, 2005, 2007, 2008.
- CSD Advisory Board Committee, 2005.
- Hiring Committee, Associate Vice Provost of Graduate Education, 2005.
- CSD Head Selection Committee, 2007.
- Co-Chair, SCS Dean Search Committee, 2004.
- Faculty Recruiting Committee, 1997, 2002, 2003.
- Graduate Admissions Committee, 2002; Co-Chair 2003; 2005.
- Reappointment and Promotions Committees, 1995-present.
- Special Faculty Review Committee, 1995, 1999.
- Lecturer Review Comittees, 1993-2000.
- Undergraduate Curriculum Committee, Fall 2000.
- Qualifier Review Committee (QRC), 1993-1995, 1998-1999.
- POP Seminar Organization, 1991-1996.
- NASA Review Panel, 2003.
- NSF Review Panels, 2002, 2003, 2009, 2010, 2014, 2016, 2019.
- >Mathematics and Computer Science Department,
Wesleyan University
- External Advisory Board, Member, 2021
- From Data Types to Session Types: A Basis for
Concurrency and Distribution (ABCD), EPSRC Project
- External Advisory Board, Member, 2013-2018.
- Department of Computer Science, ETH Z�rich
- Scientific Advisory Board,Chair November 2015.
- School of Computer Science and Engineering, Seoul National University
- External review committee, June 2007.
- Max-Planck-Institut f�r Informatik, Saarbr�cken, Germany.
- International Ph.D. program evaluation committee, October 2004.
- INRIA, Paris, France, October 2002.
- Evaluation board for Theme 2A: s�mantique et programmation.
- Max-Planck-Institut f�r Informatik, Saarbr�cken, Germany.
- Scientific advisory board (Fachbeirat) Member, 2001-2006; Chair 2007-2012.
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Types, Logic, and Verification
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Eugene, Oregon, July 22-August 3, 2013. Member of the scientific committee.
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Software Security: Theory to Practice
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Eugene, Oregon, June 17-25, 2004. Member of the scientific committee.
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Foundations of Security
- Eugene, Oregon, June 16-27, 2003. Member of the scientific committee.
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Proofs-as-Programs
- Eugene, Oregon, June 24-July 5, 2002. Member of the scientific committee.
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See also Summer Courses.
Publications
See Publications.
Conferences
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Relating Message Passing and Shared Memory, Proof-Theoretically
- Conference on Coordination Models and Languages (COORDINATION'23),
Lisbon, Portugal, June 2023.
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Data Layout from a Type-Theoretic Perspective
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38th International Conference on Mathematical Foundations of Programming Semantics (MFPS'22),
Ithaca, New York and Paris, France, July 2022. [Incremental Slides]
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Modal Logics and Types: Looking Back and Looking Forward
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Symposium on Partial Evaluation and Semantics-Based Program Manipulation (PEPM'22),
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, January 2022.
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A Rehabilitation of Message-Passing Concurrency
- Papers We Love Conference (PWL'18),
St. Louis, Missouri, September 2018. [Animated Slides]
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Substructural Proofs as Automata
- 14th Asian Symposium on Programming Languages and Systems (APLAS'14),
Hanoi, Vietnam, November 2016. [Paper]
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On the Role of Proof Theory in Automated Deduction
- 25th International Conference on Automated Deduction (CADE-25),
Berlin, Germany, August 2015.
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Polarized Substructural Session Types
- 18th International Conference on Foundations of Software
Science and Computation Structures (FoSSaCS'15),
London, England, April 2015. [Paper]
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Subtyping and Intersection Types Revisited
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12th International Conference on Functional Programming (ICFP'07),
Freiburg, Germany, October 2007. [Abstract]
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On a Logical Foundation for Explicit Substitutions
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Joint invited speaker, 18th International Conference on
Rewriting Techniques and Applications (RTA'07) and
Typed Lambda Calculi and Applications (TLCA'07),
Paris, France, June 2007.
[Abstract]
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Substructural Operational Semantics and Linear Destination-Passing Style
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Second Asian Symposium on Programming Languages and Systems (APLAS'04),
Taipei, Taiwan, November 2004.
[Abstract]
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Logical and Meta-Logical Frameworks
- International Conference on Principles and Practice of
Declarative Programming (PPDP'99),
Paris, France, September 1999.
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Reasoning about Deductions in Linear Logic
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15th International Conference on Automated Deduction (CADE-15),
Lindau, Germany, July 1998.
- The Practice of Logical Frameworks
- Colloquium on Trees in Algebra and Programming (CAAP'96),
Link�ping, Sweden, April 1996.
Workshops
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How to Think About Types: Insights from a Personal Journey
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Programming Languages Mentoring Workingship (PLMW'19)
Lisbon, Portugal, January 2019
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A Shared Memory Semantics for Session Types
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Workshop on Linearity and Trends in Linear Logic and Applications (Linearity/TLLA'18)
Oxford, England, July 2018. [Draft Paper]
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Decomposing Modalities
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10th International Workshop on Logical Frameworks and Meta-Languages:
Theory and Practice (LFMTP'15)
Berlin, Germany, August 2015.
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Proof Theory and Its Role in Programming Language Research
- Programming Languages Mentoring Workshop (PLMW'15)
Mumbai, India, January 2015.
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Concurrent Programming in Linear Type Theory
- Mathematical Structures of Computation,
Lyon, France, February 2014.
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Towards Concurrent Type Theory
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7th Workshop on Types in Language Design and Implementation (TLDI'12),
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, January 2012.
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Possession as Linear Knowledge
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3rd International Workshopon Logics, Agents, and Mobility (LAM 2010),
Edinburgh, Scotland, July 2010. [Abstract]
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The Practice and Promise of Substructural Frameworks
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5th International Workshop on Logical Frameworks and Meta-Languages:
Theory and Practice (LFMTP 2010),
Edinburgh, Scotland, July 2010. [Abstract]
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Irrelevance as a Modality
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Workshop on Intuitionistic Modal Logics and Applications (IMLA),
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, June 2008.
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Spurious Causal Dependency and Proof Irrelevance
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Workshop on Logic Programming and Concurrency,
Marseille, France, February 2006.
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Towards a Type Theory of Contexts
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Invited talk at Workshop on Mechanized Reasoning about Languages
with Variable Binding (Merλin'05),
Tallinn, Estonia, September 2005.
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Constructive Authorization Logics
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Invited talk at the 4th Workshop on Foundations of Computer Security (FCS'05),
Chicago, Illinois, July 2005.
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Linear Logical Algorithms
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Workshop on Programming Logics in Memory of Harald Ganzinger,
Saarbr�cken, Germany, June 2005.
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Distributed System Security via Logical Frameworks
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5th Workshop on Issues in the Theory of Security (WITS'05)
Long Beach, California, January 2005.
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Tri-Directional Type Checking
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Frank Pfenning, joint work with Jana Dunfield.
Workshop on Intersection Types and Related Systems (ITRS'02),
Copenhagen, Denmark, July 2002.
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Three Applications of Strictness
in the Efficient Implementation of Higher-Order Terms
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Workshop on Implementations of Logic,
R�union, France, November 2000.
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Towards Modal Type Theory
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Symposium on Constructivism in Non-Classical Logics
and Computer Science, In Memoriam Pierangelo Miglioli,
Mantova, Italy, October 2000.
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Reasoning About Staged Computation
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Workshop on Semantics, Applications and
Implementation of Program Generation (SAIG'00),
Montreal, Canada, September 2000.
[Abstract]
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On the Logical Foundations of Staged Computation
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Workshop on Partial Evaluation and Semantics-Based Program Manipulation (PEPM'00),
Boston, Massachusetts, January 2000. [Abstract]
- A Judgmental Reconstruction of Modal Logics
- Workshop on Intuitionistic Modal Logics and Applications,
Trento, Italy, July 1999.
- Structural Cut Elimination
- Workshop on Types for Proofs and Programs,
Turin, Italy, June 1995.
- Refinement Types
- Workshop on Logic, Domains and Programming Languages,
Darmstadt, Germany, May 1995.
- Refinement Types for Logical Frameworks
- Workshop on Types for Proofs and Programs,
Nijmegen, The Netherlands, May 1993.
- Implementing the Meta-Theory of Deductive Systems
- Third European Summer School on Language, Logic and Information,
Saarbr�cken, Germany, August 1991.
- Dependent Types in Logic Programming
- Second Workshop on Extensions of Logic Programming,
Stockholm, Sweden, January 1991.
- Logical Frameworks and Logic Programming
- Workshop on Logical Frameworks,
Sophia-Antipolis, France, May 1990.
- Higher-Order Logic Programming
- Meeting of the IFIP WG 2.3 on Programming Methodology,
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, August 1988.
Universities
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Distributed System Security via Logical Frameworks
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Computer Science Colloquium, McGill University, November 2005.
[Slides] (Powerpoint)
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Modal Logic Revisited
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Frank Pfenning.
Talk presented at The Scottfest in honor of Dana Scott
on his 70th Birthday.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, October 12, 2002.
[Slides]
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Verifying Program Invariants with Refinement Types
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Princeton and Yale Colloquium Talks, February 2001.
[Abstract] [Slides]
Max-Planck-Institut Saarbr�cken, October 2001.
[Abstract] [Slides]
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Language Techniques for Provably Safe Mobile Code
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Distinguished lecture, Computing and Information Sciences,
Kansas State University, October 2000. [Slides]
- Message-Passing Concurrency and Substructural Logics
- 45th Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages (POPL'18),
Los Angeles, California, January 2018. [Live Code]
- From Linear Logic to Session-Typed Concurrent Programming
- 42nd Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages (POPL'15),
Mumbai, India, January 2015.
- Logical Frameworks
- 12th International Conference on Automated Deduction,
Nancy, France, June 1994.
- Type Theory (with Peter Andrews)
- 11th International Conference on Automated Deduction,
Saratoga Springs, New York, June 1992.
- Types in Logic Programming
- 9th International Conference on Logic Programming,
Jerusalem, Israel, June 1990.
- Lambda Prolog (with Amy Felty, Elsa Gunter, and Dale Miller)
- 10th International Conference on Automated Deduction,
Kaiserslautern, Germany, July 1990.
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Introduction to Proof Theory (5 lectures)
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Summer School on Types, Semantics, and Program Reasoning,
Eugene, Oregon, June 2022
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Session-Typed Concurrent Programming (5 lectures)
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Summer School on Foundations of Probabilistic Programming and Security,
Eugene, Oregon, June 2019
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Substructural Types Systems and Concurrent Programming (5 lectures)
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Summer School on A Spectrum of Types,
Eugene, Oregon, June 2017
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Basic Proof Theory (5 lectures)
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Summer School on Types, Logic, Semantics, and Verification,
Eugene, Oregon, June 2015
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Linear Logic and Session-Based Concurrency (5 lectures)
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Summer School on Types, Logic, and Verification,
Eugene, Oregon, July 2013.
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Proof Theory Foundations (4 lectures)
- Summer School on Logic, Languages, Compilation, and Verification,
Eugene, Oregon, June 2010,
June 2011,
July 2012.
- Logical and Meta-Logical Frameworks (4 lectures)
- NATO Summer School on Proof and System Reliability,
Marktoberdorf, Germany, July 2001.
- Reasoning about Programming Languages (5 lectures)
- European Summer School on Language, Logic and Information,
Copenhagen, Denmark, August 1994.
- Logical Frameworks and Logic Programming (5 hours)
- Third European Summer School on Language, Logic and Information,
Saarbr�cken, Germany, August 1991.
Conference Committees
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Professional Organizations
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Teaching
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Advising
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