William Schultzschultz (dot) w (at) northeastern (dot) edu
I am a final year PhD student in the formal methods group at Northeastern University where I am advised by Stavros Tripakis. My research interests are centered around the application of formal methods to the verification, design, and interpretability of distributed systems and protocols. During my PhD I have interned at Apple, working on formal verification of their hardware designs, and most recently at Microsoft Research, where I worked on compositional verification techniques for distributed protocols within the Azure Research group. Previously I worked as a software engineer at MongoDB on their distributed database replication system. Before that I was an undergraduate at Cornell University, where I studied Math and Computer Science. |
Publications
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Interpretable Safety Verification of Distributed Protocols by Inductive Proof Decomposition
[draft]
, Edward Ashton, Heidi Howard, and Stavros Tripakis. Under Submission -
Efficient Synthesis of Symbolic Distributed Protocols by Sketching
[pdf]
[code]
Derek Egolf, , and Stavros Tripakis. FMCAD 2024 -
Plain and Simple Inductive Invariant Inference for Distributed Protocols in TLA+
[pdf]
[code]
, Ian Dardik, and Stavros Tripakis. FMCAD 2022
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Formal Verification of a Distributed Dynamic Reconfiguration Protocol
[pdf]
[code]
, Ian Dardik, and Stavros Tripakis. CPP 2022
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Design And Analysis of a Logless Dynamic Reconfiguration Protocol
[pdf]
[full version]
[code]
[visualization]
, Siyuan Zhou, Ian Dardik, and Stavros Tripakis. OPODIS 2021
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Tunable Consistency in MongoDB [pdf]
, Tess Avitabile, and Alyson Cabral. VLDB 2019
Talks
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Interpretable Verification of Distributed Protocols by Inductive Proof Decomposition
[link]
[slides]
William Schultz. CMU Software Research Seminar, Fall 2024. -
Scalable, Interpretable Protocol Verification by Inductive Proof Slicing
[link] [slides]
William Schultz. New England Systems Verification Day 2024. -
Towards Better Interactive Formal Specifications
[video] [code]
William Schultz. TLA+ Conference 2024. -
Inductive Invariant Inference in TLA+
[link]
William Schultz. New England Systems Verification Day 2022. -
A Bug's Life: Fixing a MongoDB Replication Protocol Bug with TLA+
[video] [slides]
William Schultz and Siyuan Zhou. TLA+ Conference 2019.
Experience
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Summer 2023 Research Intern, Microsoft Research Cambridge
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Spring 2023 Formal Verification Intern, Apple
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Summer 2022 Applied Scientist Intern, Amazon Web Services (AWS)
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Summer 2021 Research Intern, NASA Langley Research Center [presentation]
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2016 - 2020 Software Engineer, MongoDB