Alexandra Silva

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Alexandra Silva
Born
Alexandra Martins da Silva

February 1984 (age 42)
Alma materUniversity of Minho
Radboud University Nijmegen (PhD)[2]
AwardsPhilip Leverhulme Prize (2016)
Presburger Award (2017)
Roger Needham Award (2018)
Royal Society Wolfson Fellowship (2019)
Scientific career
FieldsComputer science
Programming Languages
Semantics
F-Coalgebra
Formal methods[1]
InstitutionsCornell University
ThesisKleene coalgebra (2010)
Doctoral advisorJan Rutten and Marcello Bonsangue
Websitealexandrasilva.org

Alexandra Silva (born 1984) is a Portuguese computer scientist and Professor at Cornell University. She was previously Professor of Algebra, Semantics, and Computation at University College London.[3][1][4]

Awards and honours

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Silva won a Philip Leverhulme Prize in engineering in 2016.[5] She won the Presburger Award, awarded each year to "a young scientist for outstanding contributions in theoretical computer science, documented by a published paper or a series of published papers", in 2017, and the Roger Needham Award in 2018.[6]

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