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Magnus O. Myreen is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden. He has been with Chalmers since 2014, becoming a tenured Associate Professor in 2015 and being promoted to full Professor in June 2023. Myreen has an extensive record of service to the programming languages and formal methods communities, including serving on program committees for major conferences like PLDI, POPL, ICFP, and CPP, and chairing the steering committee for the ITP conference series since November 2023.
Myreen received his academic training at prestigious institutions:
- B.A. in Computer Science at the University of Oxford, tutored by Dr. Jeff Sanders
- Ph.D. on program verification in 2009 at the University of Cambridge, supervised by Prof. Mike Gordon
Myreen's research focuses on program verification, interactive theorem proving, and compiler verification. He is best known for his work on the CakeML project, which is an ML-style language with a formal semantics and a growing ecosystem of proofs and tools that support construction of verified applications. As he states on his website, "My most recent work has focused on CakeML, which is an ML-style language with a formal semantics and a growing ecosystem of proofs and tools that support construction of verified applications. As far as I know, the CakeML compiler is the first verified compiler to have been bootstrapped." His research spans several key areas:
- Decompilation into logic — verification of machine code
- Proof-producing synthesis from logic
- Verified Lisp and ML runtimes
- Connecting things up: verified stacks
Myreen's publication record shows a strong focus on verified compilation and theorem proving, particularly through the CakeML ecosystem. His work consistently bridges the gap between theoretical foundations and practical implementation, with numerous papers on verified compilers, program verification, and theorem proving. A significant trend in his recent work (2021-2024) has been extending CakeML's capabilities to handle more complex language features, improve performance, and verify increasingly sophisticated compilation techniques including bootstrapping and dynamic computation.
Myreen has received several prestigious awards and recognitions:
- Winner of the BCS Distinguished Dissertation Competition 2010 for his PhD work
- Royal Society Research Fellow (UK) since 2012
- ACM SIGPLAN Most Influential POPL Paper Award for the 2014 CakeML paper
- Amazon Research Award for his proposal "Compiling Dafny to CakeML"
Myreen has advised several PhD students to completion, including Alejandro Gomez (Sep 2017 – Jun 2023), Oskar Abrahamsson (Aug 2017 – Dec 2022), and Andreas Loow (Sept 2016 – Sep 2021). He also collaborated with postdocs including Hira Syeda, Thomas Sewell, and Johannes Aman Pohjola. His research has been supported by various funding sources, though specific grants aren't detailed in the provided text. Notably, he received an Amazon Research Award for his work on compiling Dafny to CakeML, and his CakeML project has clearly attracted significant attention in the programming languages and formal methods communities.
Myreen leads research on the CakeML project, which has grown into a substantial ecosystem for verified compilation. The project involves a team of researchers working on various aspects including compiler verification, program synthesis, and theorem proving. Myreen also collaborates with researchers at other institutions, as evidenced by his visits to EPFL (meeting Viktor Kuncak, Martin Odersky, and James Larus) and NUS (visiting Ilya Sergey's group). In October 2023, he began a ten-month sabbatical at Cambridge UK, where he worked part-time for Arm Ltd., indicating ongoing industrial collaboration.
