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Lex Bailey's CV

Hi, I'm Lex, and my pronouns are they/them. Formal Verification is my thing. I'm looking for a job where I can apply formal methods, or develop new techniques and processes for formal verification.

I'm interested in both software and hardware verification.

I'm approaching the end of my PhD at the University of York and I am looking to move from accademia back in to industry. I'm happy to move for the right job. I am currently in the UK and can move within the UK easily. I am also very much open to moving to an EU country for work.

Ask me more by email: cv-contact (at) lexbailey (dot) me

Experience

In quasi-reverse-time order...

Currently: PhD student at the University of York

I'm currently in the final year of my PhD research in the Department of Computer Science at the University of York. I'm working on a method for formally verifying confidentiality properties in computer programs or computer hardware. As part of this work I have developed a proof-of-concept workflow for verifying Rust programs.

Senior Research Engineer & Various internships at Arm Research

I joined Arm Research full time in 2019. I started as a Research Engineer and was later promoted to Senior Research Engineer. I also had four internships at Arm during my undergraduate study.

In total I spent four years at Arm, in which time I developed...

Formal verification tooling for parts of Arm's CPU architectures.
A fuzzing tool for random testing of security related architecture.
A cycle accurate model of an architecture in-development for performance analysis. This has since been released as 'Helium' https://www.arm.com/why-arm/technologies/helium/[link text contains company name, redacted]
Tooling for analysing the performance of garbage collection algorithms, and experimentation to learn which methods work best for a particular design of CPU.

Computer Science Degree (BEng) from the University of York

I graduated from the University of York with a first-class degree in Computer Science in 2019. I started the degree in 2016.

My final-year project was in the areas of machine learning and natural language processing. I developed and compared a few methods for extracting time expressions from English-language prose. You can see a demo of this here: https://lexbailey.github.io/timex_extractor_demo/[link text contains username, redacted for anonymity]

Electronic Engineering Certificate of Higher Education from the University of York

I started studying Electronic Engineering with Nanotechnology at the University of York in 2013, but after my internship in the summer of 2014, and my experience with the second year of the course. I decided that I would rather study Computer Science. I left this course after two years (in 2015), saved enough money during an internship to be able to start a CS degree, and moved to the CS department at the same university in 2016.

Skills

Through my time in university and the world of work, I have reached a very high skill level in the following areas:

Various Technologies for Formal Methods
- Theorem Proving (Isabelle)
- SMT solving (Z3, CVC4)
- Equivalence checking (Verilog + Jasper tools)
Programming in various languages. In particular:
- C
- Rust
- Python
- Java
- Various Assembly Languages
Working on large software and hardware projects with a team, collaborating with tools including: Jira, Git, and various Git related tools.
Solving problems independently.

Contact me

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Contact me by email: cv-contact (at) lexbailey (dot) me

Find my github page: https://github.com/lexbailey

Some more fun stuff

I'm not all work, if you need a break from reading dry CVs, you might enjoy looking at some of my curious hobby projects.

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