Ruben Martins
Systems Scientist
Carnegie Mellon University
Biography
Ruben Martins is a Systems Scientist at Carnegie Mellon University. His interests lie in the intersection of constraint programming with program synthesis, analysis, and verification. His recent research focuses on using programming synthesis to improve programmer’s productivity and to automate data science-related tasks. Ruben received his Ph.D. with honors from the Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal (2013). He was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Oxford, UK (2014-2015), and a postdoctoral researcher at UT Austin (2015-2017). He has published in top-tier venues, including, POPL, PLDI, FSE, SAT, CP, and has won a distinguished paper award at PLDI 2018 for his work on program synthesis. He has also developed several award-winning constraint solvers and is the main developer of Open-WBO: an open-source Maximum Satisfiability (MaxSAT) solver that won several gold medals in MaxSAT competitions. Open-WBO is used to solve many real-world discrete optimizations problems including finding an optimal seating arrangement for his own wedding.
Interests
- Constraint Solving
- Decision Procedures
- Program Synthesis
- Program Verification
- Program Analysis
Education
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PhD in Information Systems and Computer Engineering, 2013
University of Lisbon
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M.Sc. and B.Sc. in Mathematics and Applications, 2008
University of Lisbon