About

I am an universitair docent (roughly equivalent to a tenured assistant professor) in the Software Technology Group of Utrecht University.

Brief bio

After studying Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of Utrecht, I did my PhD under supervision of Thorsten Altenkirch at the University of Nottingham's Functional Programming Lab. I worked as a post-doc at Chalmers University of Technology, before moving back to the Netherlands to work at Vector Fabrics, a high-tech startup that used functional programming to facilitate the design of embedded systems. After this brief stint in industry, I returned to academia as a postdoc in Foundations Group at the Radboud University Nijmegen.

Recent publications

Program logics for ledgers
Orestis Melkonian, Wouter Swierstra and James Chapman. Submitted.
Verified technology mapping in an Agda DSL for circuit design
Joao Paulo Pizani Flor and Wouter Swierstra. IFL '22.
Translation certification for smart contracts
Jacco Krijnen, Manuel Chakravarty, Gabriele Keller and Wouter Swierstra. Submitted to SCP, 2022.
Calculating datastructures
Ralf Hinze and Wouter Swierstra. Mathematics of Program Construction, 2022.
A well-known representation of monoids and its application to the function 'vector reverse' (Functional Pearl)
Wouter Swierstra. JFP, vol. 32, 2022.
A completely unique account of enumeration
Cas van der Rest and Wouter Swierstra. ICFP 2022.
More publications...

Recent talks

How to believe a verified program?
Unsound Workshop. Remote.
A correct-by-construction conversion to combinators
IFIP WG 2.1. Online.
Calculating datastructures
Mathematics of Program Construction. Remote.
A predicate transformer semantics for effects
Delft Colloquium. Remote.
Generic enumerations: completely, fairly
IFIP WG 2.1. Online.
More talks...