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Jayadev Misra

Professor
Office: 
GDC 7.510
Phone: 
(512) 471-9550
Email: 
misra [at] cs [dot] utexas [dot] edu
Homepage: 
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/misra/
Research: 

Misra's research focuses on structuring of concurrent and distributed computing with emphasis on programming languages, semantics and application design.

UTCS Research Areas: 
Formal Methods
Selected Awards & Honors: 
  • Regents' Outstanding Teaching Award, University of Texas, 2010.
  • Doctor Honoris Causa from the Ecole Normale Superieure de Cachan, France, 2010.
  • University Distinguished Teaching Professor, 2009.
  • Identified as a highly cited researcher by ISI, 2004.
  • Guggenheim Fellow, 1988-1989
  • ACM Fellow
  • IEEE Fellow
Selected Publications: 
  • Computation Orchestration: A Basis for Wide-Area Computing, Journal of Software and Systems Modeling, May 2006. (with William Cook).
  • Vision of a Grand Challenge Project, Verified Software: Theories, Tools, Experiments, LNCS 4171, pp 1-18, Springer Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg (with C.A.R. Hoare). 
  • Timed Semantics of Orc, Theoretical Computer Science, Elsevier, Volume 402, pp 234-248, 2008 (with Ian Wehrman, David Kitchin, William R. Cook).
  • Maintaining the Ranch topology, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Volume 70, Issue 11, November 2010, Pages 1142-1158 (with X.Li and C. Greg Plaxton)
  • The verified software initiative: A manifesto, ACM Computing Surveys, Vol. 41, No.  4, 22:1-22:8, Oct. 2009 (with C.A.R. Hoare, Gary T. Leavens, Natarajan Shankar)
Books: 
  • Theory in Programming Practice, Jayadev Misra, 2004, Unpublished Manuscript. Used for a required course, CS 337, in the Computer Science Department.  
  • A Discipline of Multiprogramming, Jayadev Misra, Springer-Verlag, 2001. Parallel Program Design: A Foundation, K. Mani Chandy and Jayadev Misra, Addison-Wesley, 1988.  
  • Parallel Program Design: A Foundation, K. Mani Chandy and Jayadev Misra, Addison-Wesley, 1988.
Professional Activities: 
  •  Currently spearheading, jointly with Sir Tony Hoare, an international Grand Challenge Project on Automated Verification.

Jayadev Misra