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Philip Wadler is Professor of Theoretical Computer Science at the University of Edinburgh and Senior Research Fellow at IOHK. He is an ACM Fellow, Fellow of the Royal Society, and Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His work spans programming language design, type systems, and formal verification, with significant contributions to Haskell, Java, and XQuery. He has held leadership roles in ACM SIGPLAN and served on editorial boards for major journals.
Research Interests: Wadler's research focuses on the foundations of programming languages, including
- Gradual and session typing
- Language-integrated query
- Functional and logic programming
- XML data models
- Parametricity and free theorems
- Verification of smart contracts
Publication Trends: Recent articles emphasize type safety, formal verification, and blockchain applications. Key themes include gradual typing (blame calculus), session types for concurrency, and logical foundations of programming. His 2015–2025 papers show sustained focus on type theory and language design.
Awards & Recognition:
- POPL Most Influential Paper (2003 for 1993 work)
- SIGPLAN Distinguished Service Award
- Best Paper SBMF 2018
- Royal Society-Wolfson Fellowship (2004–2009)
- ACM Fellow (2007)
- Fellow of Royal Society of Edinburgh (2005)
Advising & Grants: He has supervised numerous PhD students in programs like the Centre for Doctoral Training in Pervasive Parallelism. His EPSRC Programme Grant "From Data Types to Session Types" (2013–2020) funded major advances in concurrency theory. Current work with IOHK explores blockchain verification using Haskell-based Plutus.
