Hrutvik Kanabar

About me

I am a Senior Research Engineer at Arm, based in the Cambridge offices.

News

March 2024 — Program committee member

I am serving on the program committee for Interactive Theorem Proving (ITP).

Dec 2023 — Started job at Arm

I am working with Anthony Fox and Magnus Myreen (on sabbatical from Chalmers University of Technology).

Oct 2023 — Paper submission

I submitted to European Symposium on Programming (ESOP) with other PureCake developers. This won a distinguished artifact award, and was nominated for an ETAPS best paper award.

Sep 2023 — Thesis defence (viva voce)

I have successfully defended my thesis, subject to minor corrections. My external examiner/opponent was Xavier Leroy.

Nov 2022 — Paper submission

I submitted to Programming Language Design and Implementation Programming (PLDI) with other CakeML developers – see here for an overview.

Aug - Nov 2022 — Internship at Google [open source]

I worked with Marco Elver and Aleksandr Nogikh on the Kernel Dynamic Tools team in Munich, improving syzkaller fuzzing for filesystems.

May - Jul 2022 — Internship at Meta [open source]

I worked with Dulma Churchill in the Infer London team, improving Infer’s Pulse taint analysis.

Feb 2022 — Paper submission

I submitted to Interactive Theorem Proving (ITP), building on my Arm internship – see here for an overview.

Jul - Oct 2020 — Internship at Facebook [open source]

I worked with Catherine Gasnier in the Hack London team, improving type-inference for Hack by generating constraints on method invocations.

Apr - Jul 2020 — Internship at Arm

I worked with Anthony Fox in the security research group, investigating the Sail language ecosystem and its applications in formal reasoning about the semantics of the Arm instruction set.

Jan 2020 — Student Research Competition

I placed second at Principles of Programming Languages (POPL) 2020. This involved three rounds: an extended abstract, a poster, and a presentation.

Apr 2019 — Paper submission

I submitted to the Journal of Automated Reasoning (JAR) with other CakeML developers – see here for an overview.

Education

In 2023, I finished my PhD at the University of Kent, supervised by Olaf Chitil (planning/dissertation) and Scott Owens (at Facebook since late 2019). My thesis was titled “Verified compilation of a purely functional language to a realistic machine semantics” - you can find out more about my research here.

I received my undergraduate degree at University of Cambridge (2015 - 2018). I read Natural Sciences in my first year, and Computer Science in my second/third years. My Director of Studies during these last two years was Tim Griffin.

You can also find a short CV here.