Dr Andrei Popescu
PhD
School of Computer Science
Senior Lecturer in Cybersecurity
School Programmes Lead (PGT)
Member of the Security of Advanced Systems research group
Member of the Foundations of Computation research group


a.popescu@sheffield.ac.uk
Regent Court (DCS)
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Dr Andrei Popescu
School of Computer Science
Regent Court (DCS)
211 Portobello
Sheffield
S1 4DP
School of Computer Science
Regent Court (DCS)
211 Portobello
Sheffield
S1 4DP
- Profile
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Andrei has been a Senior Lecturer in the Security of Advanced Systems group since May 2020. Previously, he worked as a Lecturer at Middlesex ϳԹ and as a postdoctoral researcher at TU Munich. He has a Ph.D. in computer science from the ϳԹ of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a Ph.D. in mathematics from the ϳԹ of Bucharest.
- Research interests
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- Proof assistants
- Information flow security
- Inductive and coinductive datatypes
- Automated deduction
- Syntax with bindings
- Publications
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Journal articles
Chapters
Conference proceedings papers
Preprints
- Research group
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Member of the Security of Advanced Systems research group
Affiliate Member of the Foundations of Computations research group
- Grants
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Current Grants
- COVERT: , EPSRC, 09/2023–09/2027, £ 422,585, as Co PI
- , EPSRC, 10/2021 - 05/2025, £774,954, as Co-PI
Previous Grants
- Cyclic Reasoning Mechanisms for Interactive Theorem Proving, Royal Society, 08/2021 - 03/2025, £12,000, as PI
- 2019–2020 Principal investigator for VeTSS grant “Formal Verification of Information Flow Security for Relational Databases” (£86 198)
- 2016–2018 Principal investigator for EPSRC grant “Verification of Web-based Systems (VOWS),” acquired via the first grant scheme (£100 933)