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Alexandra Silva
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Alexandra Martins da Silva
February 1984 (age 40–41) Chaves, Portugal
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| Alma mater | University of Minho Radboud University Nijmegen (PhD) |
| Awards | Philip Leverhulme Prize (2016) Presburger Award (2017) Roger Needham Award (2018) Royal Society Wolfson Fellowship (2019) |
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| Fields | Computer science Programming Languages Semantics F-Coalgebra Formal methods |
| Institutions | Cornell University |
| Thesis | Kleene coalgebra (2010) |
| Doctoral advisor | Jan Rutten and Marcello Bonsangue |
Alexandra Silva (born 1984) is a Portuguese computer scientist and Professor at Cornell University. She was previously Professor of Algebra, Semantics, and Computation at University College London.
Awards and honours
Silva won a Philip Leverhulme Prize in engineering in 2016. She won the Presburger Award, awarded each year to "a young scientist for outstanding contributions in theoretical computer science, documented by a published paper or a series of published papers", in 2017, and the Roger Needham Award in 2018.
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