Michael Schwarz
Dr. rer. nat. | Postdoctoral Researcher @ FOCS Lab @ NUS

I am a postdoctoral research fellow in Umang Mathur’s group at NUS in Singapore.
Before that, I was in Helmut Seidl’s group at TUM, from which I graduated with a Dr. rer. nat. (summa cum laude) in late Spring 2025. During my PhD, I was also a member of the DFG Research Training Group ConVeY (Continuous Verification of Cyber-Physical Systems).
I am interested in Static and Dynamic Analysis and related topics. During my PhD, my work fell into the area of Sound Static Analysis by Abstract Interpretation. There, we have, e.g., proposed techniques for efficient abstract interpretation of multi-threaded programs, worked on increasing usability by making static analysis incremental, and designed novel analyses for sometimes overlooked features of the C programming language.
I contribute to and have in the past co-maintained (with Simmo Saan and Karoliine Holter from UTartu) the static analysis framework Goblint for multi-threaded C programs, which serves as the testbed for many of our ideas.
Prior to my PhD, I received a B.Sc. from TUM in 2016, and an M.Sc. from TUM in 2019. During my Master’s, I spent one term on exchange at the University of Waterloo and interned at NTNU as a software engineer for one term.
news
Oct 12, 2025 | Looking forward to participating in the Dagstuhl Seminar Sound Static Program Analysis in Modern Software Engineering this October! 🤓 |
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Sep 01, 2025 | Started a new position as a postdoc in the group of Umang Mathur at NUS in Singapore! 🇸🇬 |
Jun 16, 2025 | Just appeared: Our paper Taking out the Toxic Trash: Recovering Precision in Mixed Flow-Sensitive Static Analyses will be presented at PLDI this year. See you in South Korea! 🇰🇷 |
selected publications
(Click above for a full list)- VMCAICorrectness Witness Validation by Abstract InterpretationIn Verification, Model Checking, and Abstract Interpretation, Jan 2024
- SASOctagons Revisited - Elegant Proofs and Simplified AlgorithmsIn Static Analysis Symposium, Oct 2023
service
PC Member | SOAP '25, NSAD '24 |
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Reviewer | PeerJ Computer Science, STTT Special Section CSV '23 & CSV '25 |
Artifact Evaluation Committee | SAS '24, ESOP/FASE/FoSSaCS '24, TACAS' 22 |
Outreach | TEDxTUM (student-organized popular science conference) Licensee 2019-2022 |