Joshua Cohen



Email: jmc16@cs.princeton.edu
Github: github.com/joscoh
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I'm a 4th year PhD student, advised by Andrew Appel. My research interests include formal verification, proof assistants, algorithms, and functional programming. Currently, I am working on verified numerical methods as part of the VeriNum project. I previously worked on verifying an error-correction system for network packets written in C using Coq and the Verified Software Toolchain.

I recieved my BA in math and computer science and my MSE in computer science from the University of Pennsylvania in 2020. During my undergrad, I worked with Stephanie Weirich on verifying Haskell code in Coq using hs-to-coq and with Sanjeev Khanna on distributed graph algorithms.

Since summer 2022, I have interned at Sandia National Labs, where I have worked on a formalization of the Why3 intermediate verification language in Coq.

In summer 2021, I was an Applied Scientist Intern with the AWS Identity Automated Reasoning Group, where I used Dafny to verify parts of the IAM policy evaluator.

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