Philippa Gardner

Philippa Gardner is a Professor in the Department of Computing at Imperial College London, holding a UK Research and Innovation Established Fellowship (2018–2023). She specializes in program specification, verification, and concurrent separation logics. Her Gillian platform unifies symbolic execution, verification, and testing for C and JavaScript. She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (2020) and directed the Research Institute on Verified Trustworthy Software Systems (VeTSS, 2017–2023). Her work includes foundational contributions to separation logic, concurrent program reasoning, and mechanised language specifications.

• Education: PhD in Computer Science from Edinburgh (1992), supervised by Gordon Plotkin.
• Key roles: General Chair of POPL 2024, organiser of the Isaac Newton Institute's 'Verified Software' programme (2022).

Research interests span formal methods, concurrency, and tool development. Notable grants include £1.5M EPSRC Established Career Fellowship (2018–2023) and £500K Facebook Research gift (2020). Awards include Imperial’s President and Rector’s Teaching Award (2013).