Alexandra Silva

Alexandra Silva
Born
Alexandra Martins da Silva

February 1984 (age 41)
Alma materUniversity of Minho
Radboud University Nijmegen (PhD)
AwardsPhilip Leverhulme Prize (2016)
Presburger Award (2017)
Roger Needham Award (2018)
Royal Society Wolfson Fellowship (2019)
Scientific career
FieldsComputer science
Programming Languages
Semantics
F-Coalgebra
Formal methods
InstitutionsCornell University
ThesisKleene coalgebra (2010)
Doctoral advisorJan Rutten and Marcello Bonsangue
Websitealexandrasilva.org

Alexandra Silva (born 1984) is a Portuguese computer scientist and Professor at Cornell University. She was previously Professor of Algebra, Semantics, and Computation at University College London.