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Life and Sciencea personal perspective
Orna GrumbergTechnion, Israel
Verification Mentoring Workshop 2015
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Personal data
• Ph.d. in (non-automated) verification• Postdoc in Model Checking (MC) with Ed
Clarke • 30 years of research in MC:
same title, different contents
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Current research:
• Model checking for security• New compositional methods• Abstraction and modularity for UML
systems• Automata over infinite alphabet• Improving interpolation-based
verification
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Why Computed-Aided Verification?
It is diverse:• Logic• Automata• Algorithms• Data structures• Very efficient implementations that
matters
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Why Computed-Aided Verification?
Research, development, applications are done in academia, research labs, industry
A large variety of job types
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Starting a Ph.d.
• Choose an advisor that suits you– Consult with other students
• Choose a subject that you like
Enjoy what you do!
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• Don’t be afraid of dead periods where next research question or next solution do not seem to be at hand
– Everyone has such periods
– Keep working and they will be resolved
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Preparing the day after
• Create visibility:
– Networking at conferences
– Get introduced to people
– Make scientific collaboration visits if possible
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Aiming for a career
• Decide that this is what you want to do
• Declare to yourself that what you do is important to you, you do it wholeheartedly, as a central activity
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Aiming for a career
• Priorities set them accordingly
• Let relevant people in your life
know it– Otherwise, traditional expectation might get
in the way
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• Today it is common to see women holding high positions
• Women that want to make a career can do it successfully
BUT
• Traditional expectation might get in the way
• You need to say loud and clear that your intentions are serious and that you are willing to work hard for that
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Family and science
• Time management and delegation (at home and at work)
• Do your best and try to be excellent, rather than trying to be perfect
• Find your own balance
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My solution
Balance:• Family and career: equally
important– Career is as important as family
Help:• Always had a reliable babysitter• In high-stressed periods:
husband, parents and friends 13
My solution (cont.)
Priorities:• Cooking and cleaning are overrated
• So is sleeping…
• I guess I did something right…
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This is my balance – yours might be different
• Find your own balance• Update it periodically
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Summary
To have a successful career:• Decide that you want to do• Do it!
• Enjoy it!• Everything else will fall into place
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The End
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