Falak Sher

- falak.sher.vira@cs.rwth-aachen.de
- Address
- Room 4206
Ahornstraße 55
D-52074 Aachen - Phone
- +49 241 80 21210
Research
I am a doctoral student in the chair of Prof. Dr. Ir. Joost-Pieter Katoen at RWTH Aachen, and currently writing my dissertation on game-based abstraction techniques of probabilistic systems.
- Analysis of reactive, stochastic, real-time, and hybrid systems,
- Reduction techniques for probabilistic systems using game theory,
- Formal software verification, in particular model checking,
- Formal modelling and analysis of distributed computing,
- Game theory, Petri Nets, Process Algebra, Concurrency theory,
Teaching
I have assisted the following courses during my stay at RWTH:
- Introduction to Model Checking,
- Advanced Model Checking,
- Modeling Concurrent and Probabilistic Systems,
- Theoretical Foundations of UML,
- Lab Course on Model Checking using the Spin tool.
Awards and grants
- Microsoft Innovation Award for the best master thesis Compositional Abstraction for Probabilistic Automata in 2010.
- RWTH master student scholarship for the years 2009-2010.
Publications
2015
- PhD thesis
Abstraction and refinement of probabilistic automata using modal stochastic games
RWTH Aachen University
Advisers: Joost-Pieter Katoen, Lijun Zhang
- Journal article
Modelling and statistical model checking of a microgrid
International journal on software tools for technology transfer
2013
2012
2011
- Conference paper
New Results on Abstract Probabilistic Automata
2011 Eleventh International Conference on Application of Concurrency to System Design (ACSD 2011)
- Conference paper
Abstract Probabilistic Automata
Verification, model checking, and abstract interpretation