Programming Languages & Verification

The group’s research focuses on the principles, design and implementation of programming languages and on foundational techniques and practical tools for analyzing, testing, and verifying programs against their correctness specifications.

Recent research has developed techniques for verifying compilers and other critical software, and tools for testing and/or verifying concurrent systems.

News

Max Planck researchers publish 5 papers at POPL 2026!

January 2026

Max Planck researchers have authored nine papers to appear in POPL 2026.

Joël Ouaknine receives LICS test-of-time award

June 2025

Joël Ouaknine has received the 2025 LICS test-of-time award for his 2005 paper on Metric Temporal Logic.

Derek Dreyer and collaborators receive three Distinguished Paper Awards at PLDI'25 and POPL'25

June 2025

Derek Dreyer and collaborators received Distinguished Paper Awards for two papers at PLDI 2025 and one at POPL 2025.

Michael Sammler receives Otto Hahn Medal

March 2025

Michael Sammler has been awarded the 2024 Otto Hahn Medal for outstanding scientific achievement.

Derek Dreyer receives most influential POPL paper award

January 2025

MPI-SWS faculty member Derek Dreyer has been selected as the winner of this year's POPL (Principles of Programming Languages) Most Influential Paper Award…

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Recent projects

Recent software

genmc

Generic model checker for concurrent C programs

POROUS

An invariant builder and reachability checker for affine programs.

Papers

Expressive Equivalence Between Decidable Freeze and Metric Timed Temporal Logics.

Hsi-Ming Ho, Shankara Narayanan Krishna, Khushraj Madnani, Rupak Majumdar, Paritosh K. Pandya.
CONCUR 2025.

Optimal Concolic Dynamic Partial Order Reduction.

Mohammad Hossein Khoshechin Jorshari, Michalis Kokologiannakis, Rupak Majumdar, Srinidhi Nagendra.
CONCUR 2025.

Formal Languages and Arithmetic Theories: Recent Results and Open Problems.

Christoph Haase, Mikhail R. Starchak.
DLT 2025.

Analyzing Metastable Failures.

Rebecca Isaacs, Peter Alvaro, Rupak Majumdar, Kiran Kumar, Muniswamy Reddy, Mahmoud Salamati, Sadegh Soudjani.
HotOS 2025.

Integrated Task and Path Planning for Collaborative Multi-Robot Systems.

Aman Aryan, Manan Modi, Indranil Saha, Rupak Majumdar, Swarup Mohalik.
ICCPS 2025.

All papers

People

Faculty

Björn Brandenburg

Derek Dreyer

Deepak Garg

Rupak Majumdar

Joel Ouaknine

Anne-Kathrin Schmuck

Viktor Vafeiadis

Georg Zetzsche

Research Group Leaders

Sadegh Soudjani

Mikhail Starchak

Affiliated Faculty

Robert Harper
(External Scientific Member)

Anthony Lin
(Max Planck Fellow)

Postdoctoral Researchers

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