Işıl Dillig

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Ph.D. Student
Computer Science Dept.
Stanford University

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General Information
    Office: Gates Building 420
    Mailing address:
    Computer Science Department, office 420
    353 Serra Mall
    Stanford University,
    Stanford, CA 94305
    Phone: 650-723-9273
    E-mail: isil@cs.stanford.edu
Biographical Sketch

I graduated from Stanford University in June, 2006 with a degree in computer science (with honors). I'm currently a third year Ph.D student at Stanford. I work on static program analysis and verification, and my advisor is Alex Aiken.

Here is my resume .


Current Areas of Research

Research interests

My main research interests are static program analysis/verification and decision procedures. I'm interested in developing techniques and tools that are sound and sufficiently precise to automate error detection (such as memory safety errors) in software systems. For the first two years of my PhD, I was a member of the SATURN project, which is a SAT-based bug finding and verification framework for analyzing millions of lines of C-code. More recently, I have been working on a constraint-solver, Mistral, which is based on the combined theory of linear arithmetic over integers and uninterpreted functions. Mistral integrates constraint solving, simplification, and quantifier elimination, and it is specifically designed for a new program analysis system, called Compass, which I am also currently developing.


Publications


Talks


Work Experience

  • Research Assistant, Stanford University. September 2007- Present. Advisor: Alex Aiken

  • Intern at IBM T.J Watson Hawthorne Research Lab. June 2007-September 2007. Mentors: Satish Chandra and Eran Yahav.


  • Awards

    2008-2010: Recipient of the Stanford Graduate Fellowship

    2006-2007: Recipient of Forbes School of Engineering Fellowship

    2006: Wegbreit Award for the Best Undergraduate Honors Thesis in Computer Science. Stanford University.

    2006: Firestone Medal for Excellence in Undergraduate Research. Stanford University.

    2006: Frederick Emmons Terman Engineering Scholatic Award for outstanding achievement in engineering. Stanford University.

    2002: Mary Mills Patrick Award for highest GPA at Robert College. Robert College, Istanbul.

    2002: Dora Aksoy Award for Excellence in Mathematics. Robert College, Istanbul.

    2002: Aysun Sualp Award for excellence in arts and science . Robert College, Istanbul.


    Personal


    I am originally from Istanbul, Turkey. I am married to Thomas Dillig , who is also a PhD student in computer science at Stanford.

    We both enjoy hiking, reading, being outdoors, watching movies, and photography. Here are some photos
    that Tom and I have taken recently.

    Links


    Photos

    Stanford University
    Stanford University Computer Science Department
    New York Times
    Slashdot
    Robert College (my high school)


    How To Pronounce My Name


    My first name is pronounced as "Ishil" rather than "Isil".