Riccardo Pucella
I'm a Principal Software Engineer at Forrester Research, where I'm part of the Forrester Analytics Data Technology team. These days, I mostly do backend and infrastructure work, with some forays into frontend work.
You can find some code on my GitHub page.
Once in a while, I teach a course at Olin College.
In a previous life, I was on faculty at Northeastern University in the College of Computer and Information Science.
What's New?
- I'm teaching Databases (ENGR 3599) at Olin College in Fall 2021.
- I gave an invited lecture on Quantum Computing for a Data Structures and Algorithms class. Fascinating stuff.
Courses
Only links to the most recent or to significantly different versions of courses are given.
| Web Development | ENGR 3599 | Olin | Spring 2021 |
| Foundations of Computer Science | ENGR 3520 | Olin | Fall 2020 |
| Programming Languages | ENGR 3599 | Olin | Spring 2020 |
| Foundations of Computer Science | ENGR 3520 | Olin | Fall 2019 |
| Databases | ENGR 3599 | Olin | Spring 2019 |
| Foundations of Computer Science | ENGR 3520 | Olin | Fall 2018 |
| Programming Languages | ENGR 3599 | Olin | Spring 2018 |
| Foundations of Computer Science | ENGR 3520 | Olin | Fall 2017 |
| Programming Languages | CS 152 | Harvard | Spring 2017 |
| Foundations of Computer Science | ENGR 3520 | Olin | Spring 2017 |
| Programming Languages | ENGR 3599 | Olin | Fall 2016 |
| Foundations of Computer Science | ENGR 3520 | Olin | Spring 2016 |
| Visualizing Data | ENGR 3599 | Olin | Fall 2015 |
| Foundations of Computer Science | ENGR 3520 | Olin | Spring 2015 |
| Game Programming | ENGR 3599 | Olin | Fall 2014 |
| Programming Language Design and Implementation | ENGR 3599 | Olin | Spring 2014 |
| Foundations of Computer Science | ENGR 3520 | Olin | Fall 2013 |
| Object-Oriented Design | CS 3500 | Northeastern | Spring 2011 |
| Object-Oriented Design | CS 3500 | Northeastern | Fall 2010 |
| Programming Design Paradigm | CS 5010 | Northeastern | Fall 2010 |
| Object-Oriented Design | CS 3500 | Northeastern | Spring 2010 |
| Object-Oriented Design | CS 3500 | Northeastern | Fall 2009 |
| Cryptography and Communication Security | CS 6750 | Northeastern | Fall 2009 |
| Logic and Computation | CSU 290 | Northeastern | Spring 2009 |
| Object-Oriented Design | CSU 370 | Northeastern | Fall 2008 |
| Cryptography and Communication Security | CSG 252 | Northeastern | Fall 2008 |
| Logic and Computation | CSU 290 | Northeastern | Spring 2008 |
| Object-Oriented Design | CSU 370 | Northeastern | Fall 2007 |
| Theory of Computation | CSG 714 | Northeastern | Spring 2007 |
| Cryptography and Communication Security | CSG 252 | Northeastern | Fall 2006 |
| Theory of Computation | CSG 714 | Northeastern | Spring 2006 |
| Reasoning about Security | CSG 399 | Northeastern | Spring 2006 |
| Applied Logic | CS 486 | Cornell | Spring 2005 |
| Advanced Unix Tools | CS 214 | Cornell | Spring 2004 |
| Unix Tools | CS 114 | Cornell | Fall 2003 |
Selected Research Publications
- An Epistemic Foundation for Authentication Logics. (With Joe Halpern and Ron van der Meyden.) TARK 2017.
- Knowledge and Security. In Handbook of Epistemic Logic, College Publications, 2015.
- Roles, Stacks, Histories: A Triple for Hoare. (With A. D. Gordon and J. Borgstroem). Journal of Functional Programming 21 (2), pp. 159-207, 2012.
- Modeling Adversaries in a Logic for Security Protocol Analysis. (With J. Y. Halpern). Logical Methods in Computer Science 8 (1:21), pp. 1-26, 2012.
- Practical Affine Types. (With J. A. Tov). In 38th ACM SIGPLAN-SIGACT Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages (POPL'11), 2011.
- Dealing with Logical Omniscience: Expressiveness and Pragmatics. (With J. Halpern). Artificial Intelligence 175 (1), pp. 220-235, 2011.
- Stateful Contracts for Affine Types. (With J. A. Tov). In 19th European Symposium on Programming (ESOP'10), 2010.
- Independence from Obfuscation: A Semantic Framework for Diversity. (With F. B. Schneider). Journal of Computer Security 18 (5), pp. 701-749, 2010.
- Future Contracts. (With C. Dimoulas and M. Felleisen). In 11th International ACM SIGPLAN Symp. on Principles and Practice of Declarative Programming (PPDP'09), 2009.
- Categories of Timed Stochastic Relations. (With D. Brown). In 25th Conf. on the Mathematical Foundations of Programming Semantics (MFPS'09), 2009.
- Evidence with Uncertain Likelihoods. (With J. Halpern). Synthese 171 (1), pp. 111-133, 2009.
- A Runs-and-Systems Semantics for Logics of Announcements. (With M. Sadrzadeh). In 8th Conf. on Logic and the Foundations of Games and Decision Theory (LOFT'08), July 2008.
- Haskell Session Types with (Almost) no Class. (With J. Tov). In 1st SIGPLAN Symp. on Haskell (HASKELL'08), pp. 25-36, 2008.
- Characterizing and Reasoning about Probabilistic and Non-Probabilistic Expectation. (With J. Y. Halpern). Journal of the ACM 54 (3), 2007.
- Deductive Algorithmic Knowledge. Journal of Logic and Computation 16 (2), pp. 287-309, 2006.
- A Logic for Reasoning about Evidence. (With J. Y. Halpern). Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research 26, pp. 1-34, 2006.
- Phantom Types and Subtyping. (With M. Fluet). Journal of Functional Programming 16 (6), pp. 751-791, 2006.
- Probabilistic Algorithmic Knowledge. (With J. Y. Halpern). Logical Methods in Computer Science 1 (3:1), 2005.
- Practical Datatype Specializations with Phantom Types and Recursion Schemes. (With M. Fluet). In 2005 ACM SIGPLAN Workshop on ML, September 2005.
- Validating a Web Service Security Abstraction by Typing. (With A. D. Gordon). Formal Aspects of Computing 17 (3), pp. 277-318, 2005.
- On Partially Additive Kleene Algebras. Full version of paper in 8th Int. Conf. on Relational Methods in Computer Science (RelMiCS 8), February 2005.
- TulaFale: A Security Tool for Web Services. (With K. Bhargavan, C. Fournet, and A. D. Gordon). In 2nd Int. Symp. on Formal Methods for Components and Objects (FMCO'03), November 2003.
- A Coalgebraic Approach to Kleene Algebra with Tests. (With H. Chen). Theoretical Computer Science 327 (1-2), pp. 23-44, 2004.
- A Framework for Creating Natural Language User Interfaces for Action-Based Applications. (With S. Chong). Full version of paper in 3rd Int. AMAST Workshop on Algebraic Methods in Language Processing (AMiLP-3), August 2003.
- A Logic for Reasoning about Digital Rights. (With V. Weissman). In 15th IEEE Computer Security Foundations Workshop (CSFW'02), June 2002.
- A Framework for Interoperability. (With K. Fisher and J. Reppy). In 1st Int. Workshop on Multi-Language Infrastructure and Interoperability (BABEL'01), September 2001.
- A Logic for Reasoning about Upper Probabilities. (With J. Y. Halpern). Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research 17, pp. 57-81, 2002.
- On the Relationship between Strand Spaces and Multi-Agent Systems. (With J. Y. Halpern). ACM Transactions on Information and System Security 6 (1), pp.43-70, 2003.
- On the Expressive Power of First-Order Boolean Functions in PCF. (With P. Panangaden). Theoretical Computer Science 266 (1-2), pp. 543-567, 2001.
- An Analysis of Lambek's Production Machines. RAIRO Informatique Théorique et Applications 31 (5), pp. 483-497, 1997.
Other Technical Writings
- Categories for Imperative Semantics. Lecture Notes for PLDG Seminar, Cornell University, September 2004.
- Reasoning about Resource-Bounded Knowledge: Theory and Application to Security Protocol Analysis. Ph.D. Thesis, Cornell University, August 2004.
- Review of The Pi-Calculus: A Theory of Mobile Processes. SIGACT News 34 (1), March 2003.
- Review of Type-Logical Semantics. (With S. Chong) SIGACT News 34 (1), March 2003.
- Review of Dynamic Logic. SIGACT News 32 (4), December 2001.
- Review of Control Flow Semantics. SIGACT News 32 (3), September 2001.
- Notes on Programming Standard ML of New Jersey. January 2001. (SML/NJ 110.0.6 so pretty obsolete, but may still be useful for some folks.)
- Investigations on Relative Definability in PCF. M.Sc. Thesis, McGill University, August 1996.
- Locally-Adaptive Grid Generation Using Quadtrees. (With C. Verbrugge and P. Panangaden) Technical Report SOCS 95.3, McGill University, June 1995.