Chun Tian
Postdoctoral Fellow at Australian National University
Greater Canberra Area Australia
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Top SchoolChun Tian is a Postdoctoral Fellow and seasoned software engineer with 18 years’ experience specializing in Common Lisp and formal verification using HOL theorem proving. Based in the Greater Canberra Area, he combines academic rigor (PhD in Computer Science) with practical systems experience from roles at ANU, FBK, Gensym and industry stints as a product architect and senior engineer. His open-source contributions to the canonical HOL4 repository include core fixes and formalizations (e.g., CCS process algebra), reflecting deep expertise in theorem-prover internals and automated reasoning toolchains. Comfortable moving between low-level implementation and formal specification, he brings a rare blend of long-term Lisp practice and cutting-edge formal methods to research and engineering projects.
18 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
University of BolognaDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at Università degli Studi di TrentoBachelor's degree, Process equipments and control engineering, Bachelor's degree, Process equipments and control engineering at Zhejiang University
Chinese, English, Italian, Sanskrit
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Github Skills (5)
theorem-proving10
lambda-calculus10
sml10
higher-order-functions10
higher10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
HOL-Theorem-Prover/HOL
Dec 2016 - Jan 2023
Canonical sources for HOL4 theorem-proving system. Branch develop is where “mainline development” occurs; when develop passes our regression tests, master is merged forward to catch up.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:20 reviews, 343 commits, 253 PRs in 6 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Chun made contributions to the HOL4 theorem-proving system, including fixes related to Z3 version parsing and the formalization of process algebra CCS. The commits focused on the codebase itself, with modifications to the core system and additions of example files related to the examples/CCS/ folder. This suggests a development role focused on improvements and extensions to the underlying theorem prover system.
pythonsatsat-solversourcesmerged
usocket/clorb
Jan 2018 - Sep 2021
Contributions:7 commits, 7 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 8 months
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