Valeria de Paiva
| Valeria de Paiva | |
|---|---|
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | Nuance Communications |
| Alma mater | University of Cambridge |
| Thesis | The Dialectica Categories (1988) |
| Doctoral advisor | Martin Hyland |
| Doctoral students | Gavin Bierman |
Valeria Correa Vaz de Paiva is a Brazilian mathematician, logician, and computer scientist associated with Nuance Communications. Her work includes research on logical approaches to computation, especially using category theory, knowledge representation and natural language semantics, and functional programming with a focus on foundations and type theories.[1][2]
De Paiva earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics in 1982,[1] a master's degree in 1984 (on pure Algebra) and completed a doctorate from the University of Cambridge in 1988, under the supervision of Martin Hyland.[3] Her thesis introduced Dialectica spaces, a categorical way of constructing models of linear logic. She worked for nine years at PARC in Palo Alto, California, and also worked at Rearden Commerce and Cuill before joining Nuance.[2][4] She is an honorary research fellow in computer science at the University of Birmingham.[4]
Selected publications
- Term Assignment for Intuitionistic Linear Logic. (with Benton, Bierman and Hyland). Technical Report 262, University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory. August 1992.
- Lineales. (with J.M.E. Hyland) In "O que nos faz pensar" Special number in Logic of "Cadernos do Dept. de Filosofia da PUC", Pontificial Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Abril 1991.
- A Dialectica-like Model of Linear Logic.In Proceedings of Category Theory and Computer Science, Manchester, UK, September 1989. Springer-Verlag LNCS 389 (eds. D. Pitt, D. Rydeheard, P. Dybjer, A. Pitts and A. Poigne).
- The Dialectica Categories. In Proc of Categories in Computer Science and Logic, Boulder, CO, 1987. Contemporary Mathematics, vol 92, American Mathematical Society, 1989 (eds. J. Gray and A. Scedrov)
References
- 1 2 "Valeria de Paiva", Career Profiles, Mathematical Association of America, retrieved 2015-07-24.
- 1 2 "Profile: Valeria de Paiva" (PDF), Mathematics Awareness Month, Joint Policy Board for Mathematics, April 2015, retrieved 2015-07-24.
- ↑ Valeria de Paiva at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- 1 2 Home page, University of Birmingham, retrieved 2015-07-24.