Umang Mathur

Umang Mathur is a Presidential Young Professor (Assistant Professor) in the School of Computing at the National University of Singapore (NUS), where he leads the FOCS Lab and is affiliated with PLSE@NUS (Programming Languages and Software Engineering group). He has established himself as a leading researcher in Formal Methods, with significant contributions to concurrency analysis and program verification.

Dr. Mathur received his PhD from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign under Prof. Mahesh Viswanathan. Prior to joining NUS, he worked as a Research Scientist at Facebook Inc. and as a Research Fellow at the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing. His doctoral work was supported by a Google PhD Fellowship.

• PhD: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• Current Position: Presidential Young Professor at NUS School of Computing
• Previous Positions: Research Scientist at Facebook, Research Fellow at Simons Institute

His research spans Formal Methods and Logic with applications to Programming Languages, Software Engineering, and Cyber-Physical Systems. Dr. Mathur specializes in developing algorithmic techniques for analysis of concurrent software and understanding decidability boundaries in verification and synthesis. His work bridges theoretical foundations with practical implementations, making verification techniques more efficient for real-world systems.

Analysis of his recent publications reveals a strong focus on practical concurrency analysis, with many papers addressing race detection, deadlock prediction, and memory model verification. His research consistently demonstrates how theoretical computer science can solve practical software engineering challenges, particularly in making verification techniques scalable and efficient for industrial applications.

• Google PhD Fellowship
• ESEC/FSE 2018 Distinguished Paper Award
• ASPLOS 2022 Best Paper Award
• POPL 2023 ACM SIGPLAN Distinguished Paper Award
• CPP 2024 Distinguished Paper Award

Dr. Mathur actively mentors numerous PhD students, Master's students, and undergraduates through the FOCS Lab. His research group has received support from Google Research grants and other funding sources. He serves on program committees for major conferences including PLDI, POPL, and ASPLOS, and has organized events like PLMW@PLDI. His teaching includes courses on Data Structures and Algorithms, Foundations of Logic in Computer Science, and advanced topics in Programming Languages.

As director of the FOCS Lab, Dr. Mathur oversees a vibrant research group focused on foundational aspects of computer science with direct applications to programming languages and software engineering. The lab maintains strong international collaborations and regularly publishes in top-tier venues, reflecting its significant contributions to the field of formal methods and programming languages.