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Netherlands
2025

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Computer Science

D-Index
63
Citations
14897
World Ranking
2765
National Ranking
24

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Computer Science in Netherlands Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Computer Science in Netherlands Leader Award
  • 2012 - Member of Academia Europaea

Overview

Bart Jacobs is a researcher affiliated with Radboud University in the Netherlands. Their work spans multiple areas within computer science, with a specific focus on logic, programming, and type systems as well as formal methods in verification. Their expertise also includes security and verification in computing, distributed systems and fault tolerance, parallel computing and optimization techniques, and viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology.

The primary fields of study in which Bart Jacobs has contributed are computer science, with subfields including artificial intelligence, computational theory and mathematics, infectious diseases, hardware and architecture, and genetics.

Their recent scholarly output comprises publications on both theoretical and applied topics. Some notable recent papers include:

  • Safety and immunogenicity of an mRNA-lipid nanoparticle vaccine candidate against SARS-CoV-2, 2021, Wiener klinische Wochenschrift
  • The Coalgebraic Class Specification Language CCSL, 2020, TUGraz OPEN Library (Graz University of Technology)
  • A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, dose-escalating phase I trial to evaluate safety and immunogenicity of a plant-produced, bivalent, recombinant norovirus-like particle vaccine, 2022, Frontiers in Immunology
  • A channel-based perspective on conjugate priors, 2020, Radboud Repository (Radboud University)
  • Safety and Immunogenicity of a 4-Component Generalized Modules for Membrane Antigens Shigella Vaccine in Healthy European Adults: Randomized, Phase 1/2 Study, 2024, The Journal of Infectious Diseases

Bart Jacobs has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including Isabel Leroux-Roels, Tobias Reinhard, Geert Leroux-Roels, Gwenn Waerlop, and Jasper Joye.

Their publications are frequently found in venues such as arXiv (Cornell University), Lirias (KU Leuven), Frontiers in Immunology, Radboud Repository (Radboud University), and Logical Methods in Computer Science.

In recognition of their contributions, Bart Jacobs was made a member of Academia Europaea in 2012.

Best Publications

  • Boogie: a modular reusable verifier for object-oriented programs

    Mike Barnett;Bor-Yuh Evan Chang;Robert DeLine;Bart Jacobs

  • Categorical Logic and Type Theory

    Bart Jacobs

  • Privacy-Friendly Energy-Metering via Homomorphic Encryption

    F. Garcia;B. Jacobs

  • VeriFast: a powerful, sound, predictable, fast verifier for C and java

    Bart Jacobs;Jan Smans;Pieter Philippaerts;Frédéric Vogels

  • Boogie: a modular reusable verifier for object-oriented programs

    Mike Barnett;Bor-Yuh Evan Chang;Robert Deline;Bart Jacobs

  • Dismantling MIFARE Classic

    Flavio D. Garcia;Gerhard Koning Gans;Ruben Muijrers;Peter Rossum

  • Generic trace semantics via coinduction

    I Hasuo;Bpf Bart Jacobs;A Ana Sokolova

  • Structural Induction and Coinduction in a Fibrational Setting

    Claudio Hermida;Bart Jacobs

  • The LOOP Compiler for Java and JML

    Joachim van den Berg;Bart Jacobs

  • Objects and classes, co-algebraically

    Bart P.F. Jacobs

  • JML (poster session): notations and tools supporting detailed design in Java

    Gary T. Leavens;Clyde Ruby;K. Rustan M. Leino;Erik Poll

  • Increased security through open source

    Jaap-Henk Hoepman;Bart Jacobs

  • JML: notations and tools supporting detailed design in Java

    Gary T. Leavens;Clyde Ruby;K. Rustan;M. Leino

  • Java Program Verification at Nijmegen: Developments and Perspective

    Bart Jacobs;Erik Poll

  • Semantics of weakening and contraction

    Bart Jacobs

  • Implicit Dynamic Frames: Combining Dynamic Frames and Separation Logic

    Jan Smans;Bart Jacobs;Frank Piessens

  • Java Program Verification via a Hoare Logic with Abrupt Termination

    Marieke Huisman;Bart Jacobs

  • A quick tour of the VeriFast program verifier

    Bart Jacobs;Jan Smans;Frank Piessens

  • Reasoning about Java classes: preliminary report

    Bart Jacobs;Joachim van den Berg;Marieke Huisman;Martijn van Berkum

  • Crossing borders: security and privacy issues of the european e-passport

    Jaap-Henk Hoepman;Engelbert Hubbers;Bart Jacobs;Martijn Oostdijk

  • The VeriFast program verifier

    Bart Jacobs;Frank Piessens

  • Introduction to Coalgebra: Towards Mathematics of States and Observation

    Bart Jacobs

Frequent Co-Authors

Wolfram Schulte
Wolfram Schulte Microsoft (United States)
Jan Rutten
Jan Rutten Radboud University
K. Rustan M. Leino
K. Rustan M. Leino Amazon Web Services
Erik Smets
Erik Smets Naturalis Biodiversity Center
Wouter Joosen
Wouter Joosen KU Leuven
Gary T. Leavens
Gary T. Leavens University of Central Florida
Peter Müller
Peter Müller ETH Zurich
Mark van den Brand
Mark van den Brand Eindhoven University of Technology

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