Lev Naiman

Email: naiman [at] cs [dot] toronto [dot] edu
Office: Bahen Centre 3232

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About Me

I am a PhD student at the Department of Computer Science at the University of Toronto. I am working under the supervision of Eric Hehner in the Software Engineering Group. I did both my undergraduate and Master's work at the University of Toronto.

Research Interests

My current work is on an interactive theorem prover called Netty. It is a theorem prover that uses direct manipulation as well as context and monotonicity to proceed with proofs. In addition, the prover can be used to develop code from specification using step-based refinement. My most recent efforts are more closely related to code synthesis; I am attempting to devise a method for code reuse based not just on single proof patterns, but rather whole specification lattices. As such, I am interested in:

  • Interactive theorem provers
  • Correct by construction programs
  • Code synthesis and reuse

Publications

  • L.Naiman, E.C.R.Hehner: Netty: a Prover's Assistant, COMPUTATION TOOLS 2011: the second international conference on Computational Logics, Algebras, Programming, Tools, and Benchmarking, Rome, 2011 September 25-30
  • L.Naiman: Using an Expression Interpreter to Reason With Partial Terms COMPUTATION TOOLS 2013: the fourth international conference on Computational Logics, Algebras, Programming, Tools, and Benchmarking, Valencia, 2013 May 27- June 1

Presentations

  • A tutorial in the iFM-ABZ 2012 conference on the Netty tool

Teaching

I have done TA work for the following courses

Links

  • The Netty tool source code and project can be downloaded from here, and a compiled version in JAR format is here . It can be run by typing into console "java -jar netty.jar". The tool is still a work in progress and not feature-complete.
  • The Netty document describes the tool
  • A Practical Theorey of Programming by Eric Hehner describes the programming theory that Netty is based on.