Patrick COUSOT    Professor of Computer Science    Julius Silver, Roslyn S. Silver, and Enid Silver Winslow Professor    Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences    New York University

• Safety and security of complex hardware and software computer systems (specification, design, implementation, testing, validation, verification, maintenance, watermarking, steganography, obfuscation, weak architectures);
• Programming (languages, compilation, transformation, optimization, verification, contract inference, refactoring);
• Formal methods (proof, theorem proving, model-checking, typing, and static analysis);
• Theory and applications of abstract interpretation (sound methods and algorithms for approximating undecidable or highly complex computational structures).