Publications

Conference and journal papers

2025

• Program Logics à la Carte
  Max Vistrup, Michael Sammler, Ralf Jung
  In POPL 2025
  [paper] [paper website]

2024

• Rustlantis: Randomized Differential Testing of the Rust Compiler
  Qian Wang, Ralf Jung
  In OOPSLA 2024
  [paper] [paper website]

• RefinedRust: A Type System for High-Assurance Verification of Rust Programs
  Lennard Gäher, Michael Sammler, Ralf Jung, Robbert Krebbers, Derek Dreyer
  In PLDI 2024
  [paper] [paper website]

2023

• Grove: a Separation-Logic Library for Verifying Distributed Systems
  Upamanyu Sharma, Ralf Jung, Joseph Tassarotti, M. Frans Kaashoek, Nickolai Zeldovich
  In SOSP 2023
  [paper] [extended version]

• Verifying vMVCC, a high-performance transaction library using multi-version concurrency control
  Yun-Sheng Chang, Ralf Jung, Upamanyu Sharma, Joseph Tassarotti, M. Frans Kaashoek, Nickolai Zeldovich
  In OSDI 2023
  [paper] [paper website]

2022

• Later Credits: Resourceful Reasoning for the Later Modality
  Simon Spies, Lennard Gäher, Joseph Tassarotti, Ralf Jung, Robbert Krebbers, Lars Birkedal, Derek Dreyer
  In ICFP 2022
  [paper] [paper website]

• Simuliris: A separation logic framework for verifying concurrent program optimizations
  Lennard Gäher, Michael Sammler, Simon Spies, Ralf Jung, Hoang-Hai Dang, Robbert Krebbers, Jeehoon Kang, Derek Dreyer
  In POPL 2022, Distinguished Paper Award
  [paper]

2021

• GhostCell: Separating Permissions from Data in Rust
  Joshua Yanovski, Hoang-Hai Dang, Ralf Jung, Derek Dreyer
  In ICFP 2021
  [paper] [paper website]

• GoJournal: a verified, concurrent, crash-safe journaling system
  Tej Chajed, Joseph Tassarotti, Mark Theng, Ralf Jung, M. Frans Kaashoek, Nickolai Zeldovich
  In OSDI 2021
  [paper]

• Safe Systems Programming in Rust: The Promise and the Challenge
  Ralf Jung, Jacques-Henri Jourdan, Robbert Krebbers, Derek Dreyer
  In Communications of the ACM (CACM)
  [article] [pdf] [video]

2020

• The Future is Ours: Prophecy Variables in Separation Logic
  Ralf Jung, Rodolphe Lepigre, Gaurav Parthasarathy, Marianna Rapoport, Amin Timany, Derek Dreyer, Bart Jacobs
  In POPL 2020
  [paper] [paper website]

• Stacked Borrows: An Aliasing Model for Rust
  Ralf Jung, Hoang-Hai Dang, Jeehoon Kang, Derek Dreyer
  In POPL 2020
  [paper] [paper website]

2018

• Iris from the Ground Up: A Modular Foundation for Higher-Order Concurrent Separation Logic
  Ralf Jung, Robbert Krebbers, Jacques-Henri Jourdan, Aleš Bizjak, Lars Birkedal, Derek Dreyer
  In Journal of Functional Programming (JFP), Volume 28, e20, November 2018
  [paper] [project website]

• Reconciling High-Level Optimizations and Low-Level Code in LLVM
  Juneyoung Lee, Chung-Kil Hur, Ralf Jung, Zhengyang Liu, John Regehr, Nuno P. Lopes
  In OOPSLA 2018
  [paper] [paper website]

• MoSeL: A General, Extensible Modal Framework for Interactive Proofs in Separation Logic
  Robbert Krebbers, Jacques-Henri Jourdan, Ralf Jung, Joseph Tassarotti, Jan-Oliver Kaiser, Amin Timany, Arthur Charguéraud, Derek Dreyer
  In ICFP 2018
  [paper] [paper website]

• RustBelt: Securing the Foundations of the Rust Programming Language
  Ralf Jung, Jacques-Henri Jourdan, Robbert Krebbers, Derek Dreyer
  In POPL 2018
  [paper] [paper website] [talk (YouTube)] [talk (slides)]

2017

• The Essence of Higher-Order Concurrent Separation Logic
  Robbert Krebbers, Ralf Jung, Aleš Bizjak, Jacques-Henri Jourdan, Derek Dreyer, Lars Birkedal
  In ESOP 2017
  [paper] [project website]

• A Higher-Order Logic for Concurrent Termination-Preserving Refinement
  Joseph Tassarotti, Ralf Jung, Robert Harper
  In ESOP 2017
  [paper] [paper website]

2016

• Higher-Order Ghost State
  Ralf Jung, Robbert Krebbers, Lars Birkedal, Derek Dreyer
  In ICFP 2016
  [paper] [project website] [talk (YouTube)] [talk (slides)]

2015

• Iris: Monoids and Invariants as an Orthogonal Basis for Concurrent Reasoning
  Ralf Jung, David Swasey, Filip Sieczkowski, Kasper Svendsen, Aaron Turon, Lars Birkedal, Derek Dreyer
  In POPL 2015
  [paper] [project website] [talk (slides)]

Theses

2020

• Understanding and Evolving the Rust Programming Language
  Ralf Jung
  PhD Thesis
  [website]

2019

• Higher-Order Ghost State
  Ralf Jung
  Master Thesis
  [based on this paper]

2013

• An Intermediate Language To Formally Justify Memory Access Reordering
  Ralf Jung
  Bachelor Thesis
  [thesis] [slides] [coq]

Workshop Talks

2020

• Stacked Borrows: An Aliasing Model for Rust
  Ralf Jung
  At PRiML 2020 (invited talk)
  [slides]

2019

• Logical Atomicity in Iris: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
  Ralf Jung
  At Iris Workshop 2019
  [slides]

2015

• Unifying Worlds and Resources
  Ralf Jung, Derek Dreyer
  At HOPE 2015: 4th ACM SIGPLAN Workshop on Higher-Order Programming with Effects
  [slides] [YouTube]