Draft:Peter Müller

Peter Müller is a Swiss computer scientist and professor at ETH Zurich. He has been a Full Professor at the Department of Computer Science and head of the Programming Methodology group since 2008. His research focuses on languages, techniques, and tools for the development of correct software. Notable work includes Viper, an infrastructure for reasoning about the correctness of heap-manipulating programs. Previously, he held positions as Researcher at Microsoft Research in Redmond, Assistant Professor at ETH Zurich, and Project Manager at Deutsche Bank in Frankfurt.

Research
Peter Müller centers his research on modular specification and verification of heap-manipulating programs. Early work was on Chalice, a programming language and verifier for concurrent programs, which was developed together with K. Rustan M. Leino. Later on, Peter Müller worked on Viper, which got first published in 2016 and is actively maintained and regularly extended. In contrast to Chalice, Viper is an intermediate programming language aimed at verification and a suite of tools to verify Viper programs. By natively providing support for reasoning about mutable state using permissions or ownership (i.e. separation logic), Viper is designed to make it easy to implement verification techniques for sequential and concurrent programs with mutable state. In particular, Viper is used as a backbone in several program verifiers including Gobra for Go, Nagini for Python, Prusti for Rust, and VerCors for C and Java.