Nobuko Yoshida

Nobuko Yoshida

Strachey Professor of Computing

Governing Body Fellow, Wolfson College

Wolfson Building, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3QD

Themes:

Programming Languages

Completed Projects:

Interests

Nobuko Yoshida is Christopher Strachey Chair of Computer Science in University of Oxford. She is an EPSRC Established Career Fellow and an Honorary Fellow at Glasgow University.

Nobuko Yoshida's research interests are focused on the theory of concurrent and mobile computation. Currently she is working on: semantics and type theory for concurrency and mobile processes; web services; concurrent and distributed object-oriented programming languages; secure information flow analysis; access control of mobile computing; and Hoare logic for higher-order imperative functions.

Nobuko Yoshida's main research interests during the last ten years have been theories and applications of protocols specifications and verifications. She introduced multiparty session types [ POPL'08, JACM ] which received Most Influential POPL Paper Award in 2018 (judged by its influence over the last decade). This work enlarged the community and widened the scope of applications of session types, e.g. runtime monitoring based on Scribble (co-developed with Red Hat) has been deployed to other projects such as cyberinfrastructure in the US Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI); and widened the scope of her research areas. She was awarded CNRS and JSSP visiting fellowships and visiting professorships at Paris VI and Paris VII. She is an editor of ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems, Mathematical Structures in Computer Science, Journal of Logical Algebraic Methods in Programming, and the chief editor of The Computer-aided Verification and Concurrency Column for EATCS Bulletin. Her current industry partners include: Cognizant, Estafet, J.P. Morgan, Red Hat, Weaveworks, November Group, ABB, EDF Energy, Xilinx, EPCC Ltd, Codeplay Software Ltd and Mexeler.

Publications

Nobuko Yoshida's publications can be found here.

Biography

Yoshida’s research in Computer Science focuses on the development of theories, semantic concepts, and supporting programming languages and software for the foundations of concurrent and distributed systems. Her particular interest is in session types, a type-based approach to the verification of message-passing programs. She is an EPSRC Established Career Fellow from 1st April 2020; an Honorary Fellow at Glasgow University; and a fellow of British Computing Society.

She introduced in 2008 the theory of Multiparty Session Types which received, in 2018, the Most Influential Paper Award (judged as the most influential paper in a decade) at a leading programming language conference ACM POPL. Her work and leadership have created a vibrant and international research community whose foundational work has also influenced other areas of Computing.

Specifically, she is a pioneer who applied session types to programming languages/systems; for example, she developed a design and verification for WC3 Choreographic Description Language; and deployed run-time monitoring based on session types to cyberinfrastructure in the US Ocean Observatories Initiative.

Her publication record and citation count of (13,080 in total) and (since 2018) (Google scholar: Feb 2023: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=4T-p76AAAAAJ&hl=en) demonstrate an expansion of the session types community. With her PhD students, she first integrated session types to a main stream programming language (Java), and each of their work is cited by over 200 articles. Her work on parallel computing also led to the 29th ACM Compiler Construction (CC) Best Paper Award in 2020.

Under her mentoring, 19 Postdoctoral researchers obtained permanent lectureships, professorships or research positions in top-rated universities in the UK, US, and Europe. Her leadership has led session types becoming one of the central topics in international conferences for Theoretical Computer Science and Programming Languages and Systems.

She is currently an editor of ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems (ACM), Formal Aspects of Computing (FAC), Mathematical Structures in Computer Science (CUP), Journal of Logical Algebraic Methods in Programming (Elsevier), Acta Informatica (Springer) and the chief editor of The Computer-aided Verification and Concurrency Column for EATCS Bulletin. She has served PC-chair/members over 60 top Computer Science conferences and has been regularly invited to give talks/lectures at conferences, workshops, schools, companies and universities. She was awarded CNRS and JSSP visiting fellowship (twice) and visiting professorships (three times) at Paris VI and Paris VII.

Her current industry partners include Amazon, Actyx, Barclays, Cognizant, Google, Red Hat and EDF Energy. Her work in OOPSLA 2020 with Google Go Language Team has contributed to design generics types in a release of Go (Go 1.18). Currently, she is a Working Group Member of OpenTelemetry (a unified standard for service instrumentations) with Red Hat.

A link to the Mobility Reading Group can be found here.

Professional Activities

DisCoTec 2019 Scientific Committee
14th International Federated Conference on Distributed Computing Techniques
EPSRC Member
Peer Review College
COST Action IC1201 Vice Chair of WG3 and MC member
Behavioural Types for Reliable Large-Scale Software Systems (BETTY)
COST Action IC1402 MC member
Runtime Verification beyond Monitoring (ARVI)
COST Action IC1405 MC Substitute member
Reversible computation - extending horizons of computing
IFIP 2015 WG 1.8 Member
Concurrency Theory

PC Members and Chairs

CONCUR 2021 Program Committee
32nd International Conference on Concurrency Theory
ESOP 2021 Programme Chair
30th European Symposium on Programming
ESOP 2021 Steering Committee
30th European Symposium on Programming
CAV 2021 Program Committee
33nd International Conference on Computer-Aided Verification
POPL 2021 Program Committee
48th ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages
CONCUR 2020 Program Committee
31st International Conference on Concurrency Theory
PEPM 2020 Programme Committee Member
ACM SIGPLAN Workshop on Partial Evaluation and Program Manipulation
PLMW 2020 Organizing Committee
Programming Languages Mentoring Workshop 2020
PLMW 2019 Organizing Committee
Programming Languages Mentoring Workshop 2019
FORTE 2019 Programme Chair
International Conference on Formal Techniques for Distributed Objects, Components, and Systems
OOPSLA 2019 Programme Committee Member
ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Object Oriented Programming Systems Languages, and Applications
APLAS 2018 Programme Committee Member
16th Asian Symposium on Programming Languages and Systems
PEPM 2018 Programme Committee Member
ACM SIGPLAN Workshop on Partial Evaluation and Program Manipulation
ECOOP 2017 Programme Committee Member
31st European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming
FSTTCS 2017 Programme Committee Member
37th IARCS Annual Conference on Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science
POPL 2017 Programme Committee Member
The 44th ACM SIGPLAN-SIGACT Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages
ESOP 2017 Programme Committee Member
26th European Symposium on Programming
ICFP 2016 Programme Committee Member
The 21st ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Functional Programming
FSCD 2016 Programme Committee Member
1st International Conference on Formal Structures for Computation and Deduction
PLACES 2016 Programme Committee Co-chair
Programming Language Approaches to Concurrency and Communication-cEntric Software (PLACES)
SPLASH 2015 Programme Committee Member
ACM SIGPLAN conference on Systems, Programming, Languages and Applications: Software for Humanity
CONCUR 2015 Programme Committee Member
26th Conference on Concurrency Theory
CSL 2015 Programme Committee Member
24th EACSL Annual Conference on Computer Science Logic
APLAS 2015 Programme Committee Member
13th Asian Symposium on Programming Languages and Systems
PPDP 2015 Programme Committee Member
17th International Symposium on Principles and Practice of Declarative Programming
ECOOP 2015 Programme Committee Member
29th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming
CM SAC 2015 Programme Committee Member
Coordination Models, Language and Applications - Special track of the 30th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC'15)
HOPE 2015 Programme Committee Member
4th ACM SIGPLAN Workshop on Higher-Order Programming with Effects
PLACES Steering Committee Member
Programming Language Approaches to Concurrency and Communication-cEntric Software (PLACES)
WS-FM:FASOCC 2014 Programme Committee Member
11th International Workshop on Web Services and Formal Methods: Formal Aspects of Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing
MFPS XXX Programme Committee Member
The Thirtieth Conference on the Mathematical Foundations of Programming Semantics
ESOP 2014 Programme Committee Member
23rd European Symposium on Programming
CONCUR 2013 Programme Committee Member
The 24th International Conference on Concurrency Theory
FMOODS/FORTE 2013 Programme Committee Member
The 15th Formal Methods for Open Object-Based Distributed Systems (FMOODS) and 33rd Formal Techniques for Networked and Distributed Systems (FORTE)
LICS 2013 Programme Committee Member
29th Annual IEEE Symposium on LOGIC IN COMPUTER SCIENCE
PLACES 2013 Programme Chair
The 6th International Workshop on Programming Language Approaches to Concurrency and Communication-cEntric Software
TGC 2012 Programme Committee Member
7th International Symposium on Trustworthy Global Computing
DEBS 2012 Programme Committee Member
The 6th ACM International Conference on Distributed Event-Based Systems
POPL 2012 Programme Committee Member
The 39th ACM SIGPLAN-SIGACT Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages
ICDCIT 2012 Programme Committee Member
The 8th International Conference on Distributed Computing and Internet Technologies
TLCA 2011 Programme Committee Member
The 10th International Conference on Typed Lambda Calculi and Applications
FMOODS/FORTE 2011 Programme Committee Member
The 13th Formal Methods for Open Object-Based Distributed Systems (FMOODS) and 30th Formal Techniques for Networked and Distributed Systems (FORTE)
FoSSaCS 2011 Programme Committee Member
14th International Conference on Foundations of Software Science and Computation Structures
ICDCIT 2011 Programme Committee Member
The 7th International Conference on Distributed Computing and Internet Technologies
WS-FM 2011 Programme Committee Member
The 8th International Workshop on Web Services and Formal Methods
WWV 2011 Programme Committee Member
The 7th International Workshop on Automated Specification and Verification of Web Systems
PLACES 2011 Programme Committee Member
4th International Workshop on Programming Language Approaches to Concurrency and Communication-cEntric Software
FMOODS/FORTE 2010 Programme Committee Member
12th Formal Methods for Open Object-Based Distributed Systems (FMOODS) and 30th Formal Techniques for Networked and Distributed Systems (FORTE)
TGC 2010 Programme Committee Member
The Fifth International Symposium on Trustworthy Global Computing
FLOPS 2010 Programme Committee Member
Tenth International Symposium on Functional and Logic Programming
PLACES 2010 Programme Committee Member
3rd International Workshop on Programming Language Approaches to Concurrency and Communication-cEntric Software
GaLoP 2010 Programme Committee Member
The 5th International Workshop, Games for Logics and Programming Languages
CONCUR 2009 Programme Committee Member
20th International Conference on Concurrency Theory
ICE 2009 Programme Committee Member
2nd International Workshop on Interaction and Concurrency Experiences
MALLOW-AWESOME'09
International Multi-Agent Logics, Languages, and Organisations
SOFTEM 2009 Programme Committee Member
35th International Conference on Current Trends in Theory and Practice of Computer Science
APLAS 2008 Programme Committee Member
The Eighth ASIAN Symposium on Programming Languages and Systems
CONCUR 2008 Programme Committee Member
The 19th International Conference on Concurrency Theory
PLACES 2008 Programme Committee Co-Chair
The 1st International Workshop on Programming Language Approaches to Concurrency and Communication-cEntric Software
POPL 2008 Programme Committee Member
The 35th ACM SIGPLAN-SIGACT Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages
CONCUR 2007 Programme Committee Member
The 18th International Conference on Concurrency Theory
TGC 2007 Programme Committee Member
The Third International Symposium on Trustworthy Global Computing
MALLOW-AWESOME'07
International Multi-Agent Logics, Languages, and Organisations
FSTTCS 2006 Programme Committee Member
The 26th International Conference, Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science
APLAS 2006 Programme Committee Member
The Fourth ASIAN Symposium on Programming Languages and Systems
SeCRet 2006 Programme Committee Member
1st International Workshop on Security and Rewriting Techniques
CONCUR 2004 Programme Co-Chair
Fifteenth International Conference on Concurrency Theory
FoSSaCs 2005 Programme Committee Member
The 8th Foundations of Software Science and Computation Structures, the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software (ETAPS)
GT-VC 2005 Programme Committee Member
Graph Transformation for Verification and Concurrency
VQR 2004-2010 Panel Member
Evaluation of Research Quality (VQR 2004-2010), Italy
DCM 2005 Programme Committee Member
1st International Workshop on New Developments in Computational Models
FSTTCS 2002 Programme Committee Member
The 22nd International Conference, Foundation of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science
PLI 1999 Programme Committee Member
Principles, Logics, and Implementations of High-Level Programming Languages
OOSDS 1999 Organiser
Workshop on Object-Oriented Specification Techniques for Distributed Systems and Behaviours