Summary
Philippa Gardner is a professor in the Department of Computing at Imperial. Her current research focusses on program verification: in particular, reasoning about web programs (JavaScript and DOM) and reasoning about concurrent programs. She is the leader of the Program Specification and Verification Group.
She completed her PhD thesis, supervised by Professor Gordon Plotkin FRS at Edinburgh in 1992. She moved to Cambridge in 1998 on an EPSRC Advanced Fellowship, hosted by Professor Robin Milner FRS. She obtained a lectureship at Imperial in 2001, and became professor in 2009. She held a Microsoft Research Cambridge/Royal Academy of Engineering Senior Fellowship from 2005 to 2010 at Imperial. Philippa directs the Research Institute on Verified Trustworthy Software Systems (VeTSS), funded by EPSRC, from 2017 to 2022. She also chairs the BCS awards committee, which decides the Lovelace medal (senior) and Roger Needham award (mid-career) for computer science and engineering.
Selected Publications
Conference
Gardner PA, Raad A, Villard J, 2015, CoLoSL: Concurrent Local Subjective Logic, 24th European Symposium on Programming, ESOP 2015, Springer, Pages:710-735, ISSN:0302-9743
Pinto PDR, Dinsdale-Young T, Gardner P, 2014, TaDA: A Logic for Time and Data Abstraction, 28th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP), SPRINGER-VERLAG BERLIN, Pages:207-231, ISSN:0302-9743
Gardner P, Ntzik G, Wright A, 2014, Local Reasoning for the POSIX File System, 23rd European Symposium on Programming (ESOP), SPRINGER-VERLAG BERLIN, Pages:169-188, ISSN:0302-9743
Bodin M, Chargueraud A, Filaretti D, et al., 2014, A Trusted Mechanised JavaScript Specification, 41st Annual ACM SIGPLAN-SIGACT Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages (POPL), Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), Pages:87-100, ISSN:1523-2867