Frits Vaandrager

Prof. Frits Vaandrager is full professor and principal investigator within the Institute for Computing and Information Sciences of the Radboud University Nijmegen. He received his PhD from the University of Amsterdam in 1990. After postdoc positions at MIT and at the École des Mines, he was group leader at the CWI in Amsterdam until his appointment in Nijmegen in 1995. Vaandrager has a strong interest in the development and application of theory, (formal) methods and tools for the specification and analysis of computer based systems. He has been and is involved in a large number of projects in which formal verification, model checking and automata learning technology are applied to tackle practical problems from industrial partners. His publications have been cited more than 7.500 times and his h-index according to Google Scholar is 45. He is editor of the journals Information & Computation and Logical Methods in Computer Science, and has been PC member of many leading conferences in the field such as CAV, TACAS, CONCUR and RTSS.

Inference of State Machines

Active automata learning is emerging as a highly effective technique for obtaining state machine models of software components. In this talk, I will give a brief survey of recent progress in the field, highlight applications in the area of communication protocols and control software, and identify some remaining research challenges.