Short Bio
I am Joshua Moerman, assistant professor in computer science at the Open University of the Netherlands. Here is my OU page and our CS department page.
Previously, I held a postdoc position at the RWTH Aachen in the MOVES group, where I was working on probabilistic programs as a member of the FRAPPANT project.
I received my PhD at the Radboud University in Nijmegen at the Software Science department. Under supervision of Frits Vaandrager, Bas Terwijn, and Alexandra Silva I worked on nominal automata and black box testing in the context of active automata learning.
My research interests include formal verification, PAC learning, coalgebraic methods, functional programming, black-box testing theory, and category theory.
News
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13 January 2025 I am member of the RP’25 program committee.
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15 May 2024 The paper on weighted register automata is now published at TheoretiCS and my PhD student and I got a paper on compositional automata learning accepted at LearnAut!
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2 February 2024 Our workshop proposal for LearnAut 2024 has been accepted. See you in Tallinn on the 7th of July!
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29 July 2023 The PhD position on automata learning is filled!
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16 Febraury 2023 I will be on parental leave for (at least) one month.
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2 February 2022 LearnAut will be held at ICALP 2022 on July 4th, 2022. Make sure to check the call for papers.
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29 November 2021 The Open Universiteit offers a new master: AI Master. I am involved in the logic course of the premaster.
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13 October 2021 Paper on gradient descent for a synthesis problem has been accepted at VMCAI. This paper is based on this blog post.
Recent Papers (full list)
- Preprint / Presentation LearnAut 2024 Output-decomposed Learning of Mealy Machines — [ More ]
- Journal Paper TheoretiCS Orbit-Finite-Dimensional Vector Spaces and Weighted Register Automata — [ More ]
- Conference Paper Frits'60 State Identification and Verification with Satisfaction — [ More ]
- Journal Paper LMCS Residuality and Learning for Nondeterministic Nominal Automata — [ More ]
Please also see the list of talks and my research blog.
My CV (pdf)
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PhD Computer science 2015-2019. My thesis “Nominal Techniques and Black Box Testing for Automata Learning” was supervised by Frits Vaandrager, Alexandra Silva and Bas Terwijn.
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Master Mathematics (algebra and topology) 2013-2015, Radboud University. My MSc thesis on Rational Homotopy Theory was supervised by Ieke Moerdijk.
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Bachelor Mathematics 2009-2013, Radboud University. My BSc thesis on The Dold Kan Correspondence was supervised by Moritz Groth.
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Bachelor Computer Science 2009-2013, Radboud University.
During my studies, I was employed at the software company Rodo, creating iOS apps. I was also self-employed, see my iOS apps.
Postal Address (work)
- Joshua Moerman
- Open Universiteit
- Faculteit Bètawetenschappen (Informatica)
- Postbus 2960
- 6401 DL, Heerlen
- The Netherlands
Other links
[ Github ] [ Gitlab (OU) ] [ Gitlab (RWTH) ] [ Gitlab (Radboud) ] [ Personal git server ] [ Mastodon ] [ Linkedin ] [ Vimeo ]