Ira Fesefeldt

Email
fesefeldt at cs.rwth-aachen.de
Address
Room 4210
Ahornstraße 55
D-52074 Aachen
Phone
+49 241 80 21204

I am a PhD student in the Software Modeling and Verification Group headed by Professor J.-P. Katoen.

If you write me a Mail, please refrain from using a gendered address, or if absolutely necessary, use “Ms” or “Frau”.

Job Offers

I am looking for a student assistant job for implementing various graph based symbolic execution algorithms for analyzing programs on data structures. Being comfortable with formal methods are requires

I am looking for a student assistant job for a Hoare-style proof systems of probabilistic programs in the proof assistant Lean. It is required to be able to be comfortable formally proving theorems.

Research

My research interests include:

  • formal verification of probabilistic, heap-manipulating and concurrent programs,
  • separation logics,
  • termination analysis,
  • static program analysis,
  • graph-grammars and
  • proof assistants such as lean, coq and iris.

I was involved in reviews for:

  • CAV 2022 (external reviewer),
  • POPL 2023 (external reviewer),
  • FM 2023 (external reviewer and external AE reviewer), and
  • CAV 2023 (AE reviewer).

Supervision

I am currently supervising the following thesis projects:

  • Alexander Ferber, Combining Integer Programs and Graph Grammars: Theory and Implementation in Attestor, Bachlor’s Thesis


I have supervised the following thesis projects:

  • Jan Tugsbayar, Verification of Leader Election Protocols in Unreliable Networks, Bachelor’s Thesis (advising together with Prof. Thomas Noll)
  • Dominic Meiser, Design and Evaluation of a Probabilistic Pointer Programming Language using Monte-Carlo Simulation, Bachelor’s Thesis (advising together with Prof. Thomas Noll)
  • Mohamed Khalifa, Termination Analysis of Procedural Pointer Programs Modelled by Graph Grammars, Master’s Thesis
  • Fabian Gasser, Analysis of Concurrent Probabilistic Programs with Shared Variables, Bachelor’s Thesis (advised together with Prof. Thomas Noll)
  • Marvin Jansen, Decidability and complexity of entailment checking in quantitative separation logic, Master’s Thesis, winner of the CS Department Award 2021 (advised togehter with Kevin Batz and Dr. Christoph Matheja)
  • Patrick Arens, Weakest-preexpectation proof rules for disjoint concurrent probabilistic programs, Bachelor’s Thesis
  • Mohamed Khalifa, Implementation of a predicate-guided termination analysis for pointer programs, Bachelor’s Thesis


Teaching


I’m currently involved in the following teaching activities:

  • Theoretical Foundations of UML (WS23)


I was involved in the following teaching activities:

  • Datenstrukturen und Algorithmen (SS23)


Publications

2023
DOI fulltext PDF [bibtex]
@proceedings{KPGP2023,
title = {22. Kolloquium Programmiersprachen und Grundlagen der Programmierung},
author = {},
editor = {Thomas Noll and Ira Justus Fesefeldt},
publisher = {RWTH Aachen University, Department of Computer Science},
booktitle = {Aachener Informatik-Berichte},
volume = {AIB-2023-03},
pages = {1 Online-Ressource},
type = {Proceeding Article},
year = {2023},
doi = {10.18154/RWTH-2023-10034},
url = { https://publications.rwth-aachen.de/record/972197},
}×
[issue] 		Thomas Noll (ed), Ira Justus Fesefeldt (ed). 22. Kolloquium Programmiersprachen und Grundlagen der Programmierung, Volume AIB-2023-03 of Aachener Informatik-Berichte, 1 Online-Ressource, RWTH Aachen University, Department of Computer Science, 2023.
2022
DOI fulltext PDF [bibtex]
@conference{FECQSL2022,
title = {Foundations for Entailment Checking in Quantitative Separation Logic},
author = {Kevin Batz and Ira Justus Fesefeldt and Marvin Jansen and Joost-Pieter Katoen and Florian Keßler and Christoph Matheja and Thomas Noll},
publisher = {Springer},
booktitle = {LNCS},
volume = {13240},
pages = {57-84},
type = {Conference Paper},
year = {2022},
doi = {10.1007/978-3-030-99336-8_3},
url = { https://publications.rwth-aachen.de/record/843799},
}×
[issue] 		Kevin Batz, Ira Justus Fesefeldt, Marvin Jansen, Joost-Pieter Katoen, Florian Keßler, Christoph Matheja, Thomas Noll. Foundations for Entailment Checking in Quantitative Separation Logic, 31. European Symposium on Programming (ESOP 2022), Volume 13240 of LNCS, 57-84, Springer, 2022.
DOI fulltext PDF [bibtex]
@conference{TCQSL2022,
title = {Towards Concurrent Quantitative Separation Logic},
author = {Ira Justus Fesefeldt and Joost-Pieter Katoen and Thomas Noll},
publisher = {Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik},
booktitle = {LIPIcs - Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics},
volume = {243},
pages = {25:1-25:24},
type = {Conference Paper},
year = {2022},
doi = {10.4230/LIPICS.CONCUR.2022.25},
url = { https://publications.rwth-aachen.de/record/853299},
}×
[issue] 		Ira Justus Fesefeldt, Joost-Pieter Katoen, Thomas Noll. Towards Concurrent Quantitative Separation Logic, 33. International Conference on Concurrency Theory (CONCUR 2022), Volume 243 of LIPIcs - Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics, 25:1-25:24, Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik, 2022.
DOI arXiv:2207.02822 fulltext PDF [bibtex]
@unpublished{TCQSL2022,
title = {Towards Concurrent Quantitative Separation Logic},
author = {Ira Justus Fesefeldt and Joost-Pieter Katoen and Thomas Noll},
pages = {[1]-62},
type = {Preprint},
year = {2022},
doi = {10.18154/RWTH-2022-08799},
url = { https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.02822},
}×
[issue] 		Ira Justus Fesefeldt, Joost-Pieter Katoen, Thomas Noll. Towards Concurrent Quantitative Separation Logic, [1]-62, 2022. https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.02822
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