Ana Bove (landing page)

[Associate Professor]
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I am an Associate Professor (Docent) at the Computing Science division of the department of Computer Science and Engineering at Chalmers university of technology and University of Gothenburg in Göteborg, Sweden.

Since 1995 I work in Constructive Type Theory and, in particular, Martin-Löf type theory.

Constructive type theory is a very expressive programming language with dependent types. In addition, logic can be represented in type theory by identifying propositions with types and proofs with terms of the corresponding types. Therefore, we can encode in a type a complete specification, requiring logical properties from an algorithm. As a consequence, algorithms are correct by construction or can be proved correct by using the expressive power of constructive type theory. In some of my papers I use type theory to prove properties of certain algorithms or systems.

A computational limitation of type theory is that, to keep the logic consistent and type-checking decidable, only structural recursive definitions are allowed, that is, definitions in which the recursive calls must have structurally smaller arguments. In many of my papers, including my Ph.D. thesis General Recursion in Type Theory https://www.cse.chalmers.se/~bove/phd_thesis.pdf, I present methods that allows us to write general recursive algorithms (that is, non-structurally smaller recursive algorithms) in type theory.