Benedikt Ahrens
Assistant Professor at Technische Universiteit Delft
Netherlands
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Top SchoolBenedikt Ahrens is an assistant professor and researcher with 13 years of experience specializing in formal verification, type theory, and computer proof assistants, currently based in the Netherlands. He combines deep mathematical training (PhD in Mathematics) with practical Coq expertise, contributing to major projects such as the UniMath library where he maintained compatibility and resolved complex integration issues. His career spans academia and industry—from postdoctoral roles at the Institute for Advanced Study and Inria to applied verification work at HENSOLDT Cyber—bridging foundational research in homotopy type theory with real-world formal verification challenges. Known for adapting evolving proof libraries and fixing delicate import and dependency issues, he brings both theoretical rigor and meticulous engineering to open-source and research codebases.
13 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Mathematics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Mathematics at Université Côte d'Azur
German, French, English
Github Skills (7)
coq10
foundation9
foundation-sites9
dependent-types9
foundation-models9
category-theory9
formal-methods9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
UniMath/UniMath
Mar 2014 - Jan 2023
This coq library aims to formalize a substantial body of mathematics using the univalent point of view.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 releases, 475 reviews, 1876 commits in 9 years
Contributions summary:Benedikt adapted the Coq library unimath/unimath to changes in the underlying library. They also merged branches and resolved conflicts, and adapted Import commands to changes in the Monad files. Their work primarily involved updating import statements, indicating a focus on maintaining compatibility with evolving dependencies, and fixing code to work with those changes, indicating experience with Coq.
homotopy-type-theorycoq-libraryfoundationstheorem-provingcomputer-algebra-system
benediktahrens/TypeTheory
Oct 2016 - Aug 2024
Contributions:5 PRs, 207 pushes, 129 branches in 7 years 11 months
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