Faculty
2016: Sponsorship Award by the European Association for Computer Science Logic for the ESSLLI course "Model Counting for Logical Theories"
2011/12: The 2011/2012 Best Paper Award of the DFG priority programme Reliably Secure Software Systems
2008-2011: Microsoft Research European Ph.D. scholarship
Dr. Rayna Dimitrova is tenure-track Faculty at CISPA. Before joining CISPA, she was a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) at the University of Sheffield, UK and at the University of Leicester, UK before that. Prior to that, Rayna held postdoctoral positions at the University of Texas at Austin, and at the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems in Germany. She received her PhD from Saarland University in Germany in 2014. Rayna’s research is in the area of formal methods, focusing on the specification, verification, and synthesis of reactive systems. She investigates primarily quantitative versions of these questions, centered around the aspect of uncertainty in system and environment models. She is particularly interested in applications of formal methods to autonomous systems, where her work addresses the limitations faced by autonomous control due to imperfect sensing and stochastic disturbances.
52nd ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages (POPL 2025)
Computer Aided Verification (CAV)
Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages (POPL)
International Symposium on Automated Technology for Verification and Analysis (ATVA)
Tools and Algorithms for Construction and Analysis of Systems (TACAS)
Robotics and Autonomous Systems
Logical Methods in Computer Science
International Symposium on Automated Technology for Verification and Analysis (ATVA)
Automated Technology for Verification and Analysis
Computer Aided Verification (CAV)
Computer Aided Verification
International Symposium on Automated Technology for Verification and Analysis (ATVA)