[TYPES/announce] Call for PostDoc and Ph.D. in Reversible Debugging

[ivan.lanese]

The French ANR project DCore is seeking applicants for both a PhD
student position and a 1-year post-doctoral research position
(possibly extended to a second year). The post-doc will be done inside
the Focus team at University of Bologna, Italy (joint team with INRIA
Sophia Antipolis Méditerranée). The PhD will be shared between the
Focus team at University of Bologna and the Spades team at INRIA
Grenoble, France. Salary is according to French standards.

The DCore project aims at building a reversible
debugger and abstract analyser for actor programs (to be decided
whether in Java using the Akka library or in Erlang).  Both PhD and
post-doc position are referred to the part of reversible debugging and
will include both theoretical and practical aspects.  A reversible
debugger allows one to explore a (concurrent) program execution back
and forward looking for the bug. The starting point of the research
effort will be the reversible debugger CauDEr for Erlang:

Ivan Lanese, Naoki Nishida, Adrián Palacios, Germán Vidal:
CauDEr: A Causal-Consistent Reversible Debugger for Erlang. FLOPS 2018: 
247-263

https://github.com/mistupv/cauder

and the theory of causal-consistent reversibility and debugging
described in:

Ivan Lanese:
>From Reversible Semantics to Reversible Debugging. RC 2018: 34-46

The successful applicants will be expected to contribute to this
research effort, which will include both semantic foundations,
programming abstractions, and practical implementations.

Requirements for Ph.D. application:
* Master Degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, or related field
* Good background on programming languages and concurrency theory

Requirements for PostDoc application:
* Ph.D. in Computer Science (completed or near completion)
* A research background on programming languages or concurrency theory.

For both the positions:

* Applications must be submitted online from:
   https://jobs.inria.fr/public/classic/fr/offres
   (the post will appear soon)
   Applications should include a curriculum, a publication record and a
   statement of interest. Informal enquiries can be sent via e-mail to
   Prof. Jean-Bernard Stefani <jean-bernard.stefani at inria.fr> (for PhD
   position) and Prof. Ivan Lanese <lanese at cs.unibo.it> (for both PhD
   and post-doc position)

* Deadline for applications: January 30th