Ruben Martins Assistant Research Professor Office 7129 Gates and Hillman Centers Email rubenm@andrew.cmu.edu Department Computer Science Department Administrative Support Person Emily Spencer Research Interests Systems Advisees Margarida Ferreira Farina CSD Courses Taught 15689 - Spring, 2025 15639 - Spring, 2025 15698 - Spring, 2025 15697 - Spring, 2025 15690 - Spring, 2025 15697 - Fall, 2024 15689 - Fall, 2024 15639 - Fall, 2024 15604 - Fall, 2024 15698 - Fall, 2024 15414 - Spring, 2024 15614 - Spring, 2024 Biography Ruben received his Ph.D. with honors from the Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal (2013). He was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Oxford, UK (2014-2015), and a postdoctoral researcher at UT Austin (2015-2017). He has published in top-tier venues, including, POPL, PLDI, FSE, SAT, CP, and has won a distinguished paper award at PLDI 2018 for his work on program synthesis. He has also developed several award-winning constraint solvers and is the main developer of Open-WBO: an open-source Maximum Satisfiability (MaxSAT) solver that won several gold medals in MaxSAT competitions. Open-WBO is used to solve many real-world discrete optimizations problems including finding an optimal seating arrangement for his own wedding. Research interests lie in the intersection of constraint programming with program synthesis, analysis, and verification. Recent research focuses on using programming synthesis to improve programmer’s productivity and to automate data science-related tasks.
