Armin Biere
University Professor at University of Freiburg
Freiburg im Breisgau, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
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Top SchoolArmin Biere is a university professor and formal verification researcher with 18+ years of experience advancing automatic verification methods—model checking, equivalence checking, decision procedures and SAT solving—toward industrial-scale hardware and software applications. He has held academic posts at ETH Zürich, Johannes Kepler University and the University of Freiburg, and blends deep theoretical insight with practical engineering from a long-running engagement with tools and startups (co-founding NextOp Software). A core contributor to the widely used CaDiCaL SAT solver, his low-level solver work (restarts, strengthening/subsumption) has directly influenced solver performance in real workloads. He focuses on scalable techniques that make formal methods usable in mainstream design flows and routinely bridges academia and practice. Trained with a Dr.rer.nat. and diploma from KIT, he combines rigorous foundations with hands-on system-building to push formal verification into production settings.
18 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Dr.rer.nat., Computer Science, Dr.rer.nat., Computer Science at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)Abitur, Abitur at Gymnasium Schramberg
German, English, French
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Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
arminbiere/cadical
Aug 2016 - Aug 2022
CaDiCaL SAT Solver
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:29 releases, 1222 commits, 20 PRs in 6 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Armin made significant contributions to the CaDiCaL SAT solver. Their commits involve the addition and modification of core functionalities, including implementing restart mechanisms, and strengthening/subsumption functionalities within the solver. The commits focus on manipulating and integrating low-level data structures that control the solver's internal behavior. Further their work is linked to the core functionality that determine the solver's performance.
satsat-solversolverrubiks-cube
arminbiere/dualiza
Oct 2017 - Jul 2021
Contributions:630 commits, 1 branch in 3 years 9 months
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