František Farka

Formal Verification Researcher

Dresden, Saxony, Germany

About

Experience

  • Senior Researcher at Barkhausen Institut
    Jan 2025 - Present · 1 yr 6 mos

  • Senior Formal Methods Engineer at BlueRock.io
    Sep 2021 - Dec 2024 · 3 yrs 4 mos

    I am working on formal verification of microkernel virtualisation-based security platform. I led a verification effort on ARM system register emulation. As a part of this role, I am contributing to development of formal C++ semantics.

  • Postdoctoral Researcher at IMDEA Software Institute
    Jul 2019 - Aug 2021 · 2 yrs 2 mos

    I was investigating properties of Partial Commutative Monoids and the associated notions of structure-preserving morphisms and relations for applications to verification of concurrent algorithms. I was member of Alex Nanevski's research group and I contributed to development of FCSL concurrent separation logic.

  • Research Assistant at Heriot-Watt University
    Nov 2018 - Apr 2019 · 6 mos

    I was worked on verification of safety and security of AI applications and I collaborated on verification of planning languages through proof-carrying code -proof carrying plans.

  • Programmer at Designeo Creative s.r.o.
    Oct 2010 - Jun 2015 · 4 yrs 9 mos

    I was collaborating on design and development of enterprise web applications (intranet, extranet, BI) for retail customers. These were built on MS SharePoint platform using C#.