Research Associate Professor
IMDEA Software Institute Madrid, Spain

Email : niki.vazou at imdea.org
Office : 384

Curriculum Vitae



News

2027
- Committee Member in PLDI'27, PROLE'27
2026
- Chair of WITS'26@POPL
- Teaching Liquid Haskell at UCM
- Committee Member in ICFP'26, FSCD'26, REP'26
- Attended IFIP WG2.8
- Organizing Committee of Verilang'26@ECOOP, Lambda World
- Lecturer at FoPPS (lecture notes)
- Participation at Madrid Es Ciencia
- Paper Published at OOPSLA
- Abstract Accepted at WST
- Master Thesis supervision of Ana Vargas Tabuenca
- Master Thesis supervision of Alejandro Soriano


About Me

As of Nov. 2022 I am an Associate Professor at IMDEA. I started my computer science education in NTUA, Athens, Greece. I got my Ph.D. from UCSD, San Diego where I developed Liquid Haskell, as described in my Ph.D. thesis. After that, I spend some time as a postdoctoral fellow at University of Maryland.

My research interests include refinement types, automated program verification, and type systems and my goal is to make theorem proving a useful part of mainstream programming. Liquid Haskell is an SMT-based, refinement type checker for Haskell programs that has been used for various applications ranging from fully automatic light verification of Haskell code, e.g., bound checking, to sophisticated theorem proving, e.g., non-interference.