Dr Timothy Bourke
Researcher at
Inria
in the
PARKAS team
at the Informatics Department
of the ENS
Adjunct Professor
at the
Informatics Department
of the École polytechnique
en: [tImɒθiː bɜːʳk] or fr: [timɔte bɔʀk]
(Tim,
[tIm] or [tiːm]);
c/o ENS,
Paris...
tim@tbrk.org /
timothy.bourke@inria.fr /
timothy.bourke@ens.psl.eu /
timothy.bourke@polytechnique.edu
Details

- ACM Member
- Membre de la SIF
- Publications
- Enseignement L3 at École normale supérieure
- Enseignement MPRI
- INF559 and CSE205 at École polytechnique
- Public Key (I sign all email, key id: 2048R/2F1AD75D) DC65 95F1 57B5 00CC F865 5F0E 1D08 1AD8 2F1A D75D
- Other
Synchronous languages
Programming
Timed Automata
Theorem Proving
External links
My Research
My research focuses on rigorous approaches to modelling, programming, and verifying embedded control systems. My motivation is not formal techniques as an end in themselves, but rather as a means to clarify the principles behind and to better engineer embedded systems. I always try to work with practical examples, like the control system of a robotic wheelchair (a long time ago), an infrared sensor, a microkernel operating system (as part of a large group), a microprinter component, or a wireless routing protocol. Focusing on practice means working with programming languages that can be compiled and executed. Rigour mandates languages based on precise and tractable models (like synchronous languages). Finally, modelling and analyzing realistic programming languages, their compilers, and the applications created with them requires computer assistance; ideally interactive theorem provers.
Students
- Guillaume Baudart: PhD 2013—2017
- Lélio Brun: PhD 2016—2020
- Paul Jeanmaire: PhD 2020—
- Basile Pesin: PhD 2020—
Academic Service
- PC member of DAC (track ESS1) 2021; ECRTS 2019, 2020, 2022 (Real-Time Pitches Chair), 2023; EMSOFT 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 (co-chair), 2020 (chair), 2022, 2023; JFLA 2018, 2021, 2022 (vice-président), 2023 (président); RTAS 2016; SCOPES 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021; Modelica 2015, 2017, 2019, 2021; American Modelica Conference 2018 2020 2022; Asian Modelica Conference 2020, 2022; Japanese Modelica Conference 2018; and OCaml 2019.
- Workshop co-organization: Synchron (2020, 2021).
- Tutorial Chair for ESWEEK 2021.
- Member of the Student Research Competition (SRC) panel for PLDI 2017.
- Journal reviewing: ACM Trans. on Cyber-Physical Systems (2020), ACM Trans. on Embedded Computing Systems (2013, 2016, 2018, 2022, 2023), IEEE Embedded Systems Letters (2016), J. Logical and Algebraic Methods for Programming (2020), J. Logic and Computation (2013), Real-Time Systems (2012, 2013, 2014, 2017, 2022), Science of Computer Programming (2018, 2020), ACM Trans. on Software Engineering and Methodology (2018), IEEE Trans. on Software Engineering (2016, 2017), and Theoretical Computer Science (2010, 2012, 2022).
- Conference reviewing: ACSC (2010), ACSD (2013), ASP-DAC (2006), CAV (2019, 2022), CC (2017), CONCUR (2013), CPP (2012), DAC (2014, 2015), DATE (2011, 2012, 2013, 2015), ESOP (2020), FASE (2015), FM (2016), FORMATS (2009, 2010), FoSSaCS (2020), Haskell Symposium (2020), IJCAR (2018), ITP (2018), JFLA (2015), MARS (2020), NFM (2015), OOPSLA (2019), POPL (2012, 2021, 2023), PPDP (2018), RTSS (2010), WPDRTS (2006, 2007).
News
- 2022-10-04
- Pensez à participer aux JFLA 2023.
- 2022-10-04
- Hope to see you at Synchron 2022.
- 2021-07-15
- Save the dates for Synchron 2021!
- 2021-07-8
- Soumettez vos articles aux JFLA 2022!
- 2021-07-5
- Our article, “Verified Lustre Normalization with Node Subsampling” has been accepted for EMSOFT 2021 in October.
- 2020-11-18
- Synchron 2020 will happen online. The program is now online.
- 2020-08-28
- We're still hoping that Synchron 2020 can go ahead. Please save the dates!
- 2020-07-06
- Lélio's thesis defense.