Dr Vasileios Klimis
Lecturer in Computer Science
School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science
Queen Mary University of London
Research
Formal Methods/ Fuzz Testing/ Verification/ Validation/, Programming Languages/ Networking Implementations/ Weak Memory Models/ RDMA (Remote Direct Memory Access)/ Quantum Computing
Interests
I explore novel ways to apply formal methods, logical frameworks, and programming language technology to advance fuzz testing, verification, and validation across a range of systems — including networking stacks, GPU compilers, weak memory models, RDMA configurations, and quantum computing environments.
Publications

Publications of specific relevance to the Centre for Fundamental Computer Science
2024
Semantics of Remote Direct Memory Access: Operational and Declarative Models of RDMA on TSO ArchitecturesKlimis V The ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Systems, Programming, Languages and Applications: Software for Humanity (SPLASH) / OOPSLA.
21-10-2024
Challenges in Empirically Testing Memory Persistency ModelsKlimis V, Donaldson AF, Vafeiadis V, Wickerson J and Raad A
Proceedings of the 2024 ACM/IEEE 44th International Conference on Software Engineering: New Ideas and Emerging Results., 82-86.
14-04-20242023
Taking Back Control in an Intermediate Representation for GPU ComputingKlimis V, Clark J, Baker A, Neto D, Wickerson J and Donaldson AF
Proceedings of The Acm on Programming Languages,
Association For Computing Machinery (Acm) vol. 7 (POPL), 1740-1769.
09-01-20232020
Model Checking Software-Defined Networks with Flow Entries that Time OutKlimis V, Parisis G and Reus B
Formal Methods in Computer-Aided Design – FMCAD.
05-10-2020
A Compositional Approach to Quantitative Verification of Software-defined NetworksKlimis V 13-04-2020
Towards Model Checking Real-World Software-Defined NetworksKlimis V, Parisis G and Reus B
Lecture Notes in Computer Science. vol. 12225, 126-148.
01-01-2020