Jan Hoffmann
Associate Professor of Computer Science
I am an Associate Professor at Carnegie Mellon’s Computer Science Department, and a member of the Principles of Programming (PoP) group and CyLab.
My research areas are programming languages and verification. My mission is to discover beautiful mathematical ideas that have a real-world impact, shape the way programmers think, and help to create software that is more reliable, efficient, and secure. Currently, I am working on quantitative verification, type systems, static resource analysis of programs, probabilistic programming, and programming languages for digital contracts.
Before joining Carnegie Mellon, I was an Associate Research Scientist in the FLINT group at the Department of Computer Science at Yale University. Before that, I was a PhD student at LMU Munich. My advisor was Martin Hofmann.
news
| Apr 17, 2026 | Our article LFPL: Revisited and Mechanized has been accepted at LICS 2026. Congrats to first author Nathan Glover. |
| Feb 25, 2026 | Our article Handling Exceptions and Effects with Automatic Resource Analysis as been accepted to OOPSLA 2026. Congrats to Ethan Chu on his first first-author paper. |
| Feb 25, 2026 | I’m looking forward to serving on the program committee of Computer Science Logic (CSL) 2027. |
| Jan 1, 2026 | I’m excited to teach and design a new course on probabilistic programming languages together with Feras Saad this spring. |
| Nov 6, 2025 | Our article on Big Stop Semantics as been accepted to POPL 2026. I’m looking forward to seeing in at POPL in Rennes. |
| Oct 1, 2025 | I’m excited that the NSF selected our proposal on FMitF: Track I: Probabilistic Modeling and Analysis Tools for Intermittent Systems for an award. This is a joint project with Limin Jia, Feras Saad, and Brandon Lucia. |
| Aug 22, 2025 | Our article on Integrating Resource Analyses via Resource Decomposition will appear at OOPSLA 2025. |
| Aug 22, 2025 | Our article on Big Stop Semantics is available on Arxiv. |
coordinates
| jhoffmann@cmu.edu | |
| phone | +1 412 268 6309 |
| office | GHC 9105 |
| address | Computer Science Department Carnegie Mellon University 5000 Forbes Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3891 |
