Sylvie Boldo

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Sylvie Boldo
Education École normale supérieure de Lyon,
Paris-Sud University
Occupation(s)Mathematician and computer scientist
Known forFounding jury president for the French agrégation in computer science

Sylvie Boldo is a French mathematician and computer scientist. Her research combines automated theorem proving and computer arithmetic, focusing on the formal verification of floating-point arithmetic operations and of algorithms based on them. She is a director of research for the French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation (INRIA), affiliated with the Formal Methods Laboratory at Paris-Saclay University and the INRIA Saclay-Île-de-France Research Centre, [1] where she co-leads the Toccata project for formally verified programs, certified tools and numerical computations. [2] She is also the founding jury president for the French agrégation in computer science. [3]

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Education and career

Boldo completed her Ph.D. at the École normale supérieure de Lyon in 2004, [4] and has been affiliated with INRIA Saclay since 2005. [5] She completed her habilitation at Paris-Sud University in 2014, with the habilitation thesis Deductive Formal Verification: How To Make Your Floating-Point Programs Behave. [6]

In 2021, France began offering an agrégation in computer science, and selected Boldo as the founding president of its jury. [3]

Books

Boldo is the author of books including:

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References

  1. "Members", Formal Methods Laboratory, French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), retrieved 2021-09-13
  2. "Team members", Toccata project, French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation (INRIA), retrieved 2021-09-13
  3. 1 2 Sylvie Boldo named president of the first computer science aggregation, French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation (INRIA), 30 June 2021, retrieved 2021-09-13
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  5. "Sylvie Boldo", ORCID, retrieved 2021-09-13
  6. Boldo, Sylvie (2014), Deductive Formal Verification: How To Make Your Floating-Point Programs Behave (thesis), Paris-Sud University, retrieved 2021-09-13 via HAL
  7. Reviews of Computer Arithmetic and Formal Proofs: Manfred Kerber, Zbl   1385.68001; Pavel S. Pankov, MR 3729304