I am an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of Birmingham. My research interests lie between formal methods and artificial intelligence. I develop automatic techniques to guarantee that algorithmic systems are safe and trustworthy by combining ideas from machine learning and automated reasoning. Here's my CV and here's a picture of me.
Students interested in pursuing a PhD at the University of Birmingham in formal methods and artificial intelligence are invited to get in touch with me. I have an open call for a PhD position!
Contact
School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham
Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK
m.giacobbe@bham.ac.uk
Selected Publications
Formal Methods for Safe Artificial Intelligence
Verifying Reinforcement Learning up to Infinity. Edoardo Bacci, Mirco Giacobbe, David Parker. IJCAI, 2021. [paper]
How Many Bits Does it Take to Quantize Your Neural Network? Mirco Giacobbe, Thomas A. Henzinger, and Mathias Lechner. TACAS, 2020. [paper]
Neuro-symbolic Methods for Formal Verification
Formal Synthesis of Lyapunov Neural Networks. Alessandro Abate, Daniele Ahmed, Mirco Giacobbe, and Andrea Peruffo. IEEE L-CSS, 2021. [paper]
Learning Probabilistic Termination Proofs. Alessandro Abate, Mirco Giacobbe, and Diptarko Roy. CAV, 2021 [paper]
Neural Termination Analysis. Mirco Giacobbe, Daniel Kroening, and Julian Parsert. ESEC/FSE, 2022 [paper]
Formal Verification of Cyber-physical Systems
Continuous-Time Models for System Design and Analysis. Rajeev Alur, Mirco Giacobbe, Thomas A. Henzinger, Kim G. Larsen, Marius Mikucionis. Computing and Software Science, 2019. [paper]
Counterexample-guided Refinement of Template Polyhedra. Sergiy Bogomolov, Goran Frehse, Mirco Giacobbe, and Thomas A. Henzinger. TACAS, 2017. [paper] [tech. details]
Systems Biology
Model checking Gene Regulatory Networks (best paper award). Mirco Giacobbe, Ashutosh Gupta, Calin Č. Guet, Thomas A. Henzinger, Tiago Paixão, and Tatjana Petrov. TACAS, 2015. [artifact] [paper] [extended paper]