Jade Alglave
Jade Alglave FREng (born 1984) is a French computer scientist. Her research looks at how computers handle many tasks at once, how memory works in hardware, and how hardware and programming languages relate. She also works on a simple language called cat for describing memory consistency models. She is a professor at University College London and a distinguished engineer at Arm.
She studied under Luc Maranget at INRIA and earned her PhD in 2010 from Paris Diderot University. After a postdoc at Oxford, she became a lecturer at Queen Mary University of London, working with Peter O’Hearn and Byron Cook, and then moved to UCL with them. She did research at Microsoft Research Cambridge from 2014 to 2018 and joined Arm in 2018. In 2019 she became a professor at UCL.
Her awards include the 2014 Brian Mercer Award for Innovation (Royal Society), the 2018 Royal Academy of Engineering Silver Medal, the 2020 Roger Needham Award (British Computer Society), and she became a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2021.
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