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Mike Dodds
Principal Scientist
Background
Mike Dodds joined Galois in 2017 as a Principal Scientist. He specializes in applying formal methods to systems engineering problems in areas such as cryptography, distributed protocols, cyber-physical systems, and hardware semantics. Much of Mike’s work has focused on building tools that can be used by non-expert developers as part of their regular engineering workflow.
Mike has led a range of projects at Galois, including our work on CN, a unified testing and verification tool for C code; Daedalus, a safe parsing language developed under the DARPA SafeDocs project; c2rust, a transpiler used by several popular Rust crates; and several verified cryptography projects using SAW and Cryptol, including a long-running collaboration with Amazon Web Services on core components of their AWS-LibCrypto library.
Mike received his PhD from the University of York, UK, in 2008, under the supervision of Dr. Detlef Plump. He then spent four years as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Cambridge, working with Dr. Matthew Parkinson and Prof. Peter Sewell. He returned to the University of York as a lecturer (in US terms, an associate professor) from 2012 to 2017, before joining Galois.
