Professor David Parker BSc PhD

Professor David Parker

School of Computer Science
Professor of Computer Science

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d.a.parker@bham.ac.uk
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School of Computer Science
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

David Parker is a Professor of Computer Science. His research is in formal verification: rigorous, mathematical techniques for checking that systems function correctly and reliably. He has published over 120 research papers in this area and leads the development of the widely used verification software PRISM

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Qualifications

  • PhD in Computer Science (2003)

  • BSc in Mathematics & Computer Science (1998)

Biography

David Parker undertook both his BSc (in Mathematics & Computer Science) and his PhD (in Computer Science) at the University of Birmingham. After completing his PhD in 2003, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher on various projects following on from his doctoral studies. He then moved to the University of Oxford in 2007, completing a further 5 years as a postdoctoral researcher. He returned to the University of Birmingham as a lecturer in 2012.

Postgraduate supervision

David Parker’s research is in formal verification: rigorous, mathematical techniques for checking that systems function correctly. In particular, he works on quantitative verification, which is used to check quantitative properties such as safety, reliability, performance and many others.

His work spans the full spectrum of theory to practice: he has developed novel theories for formal verification, worked on efficient techniques and algorithms, developed software tools and applied all these to a wide range of real-life problems, including mobile robotics, autonomous systems, computer security and systems biology.

He has published over 120 papers in the area of formal verification and his research has been supported by grants funded by EPSRC, EU-FP7 and DARPA. He also leads the development of the widely used probabilistic verification tool PRISM, for which he was a co-winner of the 2016 HVC award (for “most influential work in the last five years in formal verification, simulation, and testing”).

Publications

Recent publications

Article

Kwiatkowska, M, Norman, G, Parker, D & Santos, G 2021, 'Automatic verification of concurrent stochastic systems', Formal Methods in System Design. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10703-020-00356-y

Al-Ajeli, A & Parker, D 2021, 'Fault diagnosis in labelled Petri nets: a Fourier-Motzkin based approach', Automatica, vol. 132, 109831. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.automatica.2021.109831

Kwiatkowska, M, Norman, G & Parker, D 2021, 'Probabilistic model checking and autonomy', Annual Review of Control, Robotics, and Autonomous Systems. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-control-042820-010947

Evangelidis, A & Parker, D 2021, 'Quantitative verification of Kalman filters', Formal Aspects of Computing. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00165-020-00529-w

Chapter (peer-reviewed)

Yan, R, Santos, G, Duan, X, Parker, D & Kwiatkowska, M 2022, Finite-horizon Equilibria for Neuro-symbolic Concurrent Stochastic Games. in Proc. 38th Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI'22).

Conference contribution

Kwiatkowska, M, Norman, G, Parker, D & Santos, G 2022, Correlated equilibria and fairness in concurrent stochastic games. in D Fisman & G Rosu (eds), TACAS 2022: Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, no. 13244, Springer, pp. 60–78, 28th International Conference on Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems, Munich, Germany, 2/04/22. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-99527-0_4

Chen, S, Boggess, K, Parker, D & Feng, L 2022, Multi-objective controller synthesis with uncertain human preferences. in 2022 ACM/IEEE 13th International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems (ICCPS). ACM/IEEE International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems, IEEE, 13th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems, 4/05/22.

Bacci, E & Parker, D 2022, Verified probabilistic policies for deep reinforcement learning. in Proc. 14th International Symposium NASA Formal Methods (NFM'22). Springer, NASA Formal Methods 2022, Pasadena, California, United States, 24/05/22.

Li, C, Parker, D & Hao, Q 2021, Optimal online dispatch for high-capacity shared autonomous mobility-on-demand systems. in 2021 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS). IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), IEEE, 2021 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Xi’an , China, 30/05/21. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICRA48506.2021.9561281

Badings, TS, Abate, A, Jansen, N, Parker, D, Poonawala, HA & Stoelinga, M 2021, Sampling-based robust control of autonomous systems with non-Gaussian noise. in AAAI'22 Proceedings of the Thirty-Sixth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI Press, 36th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, 22/02/22.

Li, C, Parker, D & Hao, Q 2021, Vehicle dispatch in on-demand ride-sharing with stochastic travel times. in 2021 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS). IEEE International Workshop on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), IEEE, pp. 5966-5972, 2021 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Prague, Czech Republic, 27/09/21. https://doi.org/10.1109/IROS51168.2021.9636499

Bacci, E, Gia­cob­be, M & Parker, D 2021, Verifying reinforcement learning up to infinity. in Z-H Zhou (ed.), Proceedings of the Thirtieth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence: Montreal, 19-27 August 2021. International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence Organization (IJCAI), pp. 2154-2160, 30th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-21), 21/08/21. https://doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2021/297

Kwiatkowska, M, Norman, G, Parker, D & Santos, G 2020, Multi-player Equilibria Verification for Concurrent Stochastic Games. in Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Quantitative Evaluation of SysTems (QEST'20). Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer, 17th International Conference on Quantitative Evaluation of SysTems (QEST'20), Virtual Event, 31/08/20.

Budde, CE, Hartmanns, A, Klauck, M, Křetínský, J, Parker, D, Quatmann, T, Turrini, A & Zhang, Z 2020, On Correctness, Precision, and Performance in Quantitative Verification: QComp 2020 Competition Report. in Proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on Leveraging Applications of Formal Methods, Verification and Validation (ISoLA'20). Lecture Notes in Comuter Science, Springer, 9th International Symposium on Leveraging Applications of Formal Methods, Verification and Validation (ISoLA'20), Rhodes, Greece, 20/10/20.

Kwiatkowska, M, Norman, G, Parker, D & Santos, G 2020, PRISM-games 3.0: Stochastic Game Verification with Concurrency, Equilibria and Time. in 32nd International Conference on Computer Aided Verification (CAV 2020), Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer, 32nd International Conference on Computer Aided Verification (CAV 2020), 19/07/20.

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