Jean-Baptiste Jeannin

Jean-Baptiste Jeannin is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Aerospace Engineering at the University of Michigan – Ann Arbor, where his research focuses on formal verification and safety of cyber-physical systems, with a focus on aerospace software systems. His background is in programming languages, logic and security, whose techniques and ideas he applies to the aerospace domain.

Before coming to Michigan, Jean-Baptiste was working on Javascript compilers and software security, as a Researcher at Samsung Research America in Mountain View, California. He also led the formal analysis of the Next-Generation Airborne Collision Avoidance System (ACAS X), as a Post Doctoral Fellow working with André Platzer in the Logical Systems Lab at Carnegie Mellon University, and in collaboration with the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory. He received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Cornell University in 2013, where he was advised by Dexter Kozen. He also received a Master of Engineering in Computer Science from Cornell University in 2008, and a Diplôme d’Ingénieur from École Polytechnique, France in 2007. In his spare time, he likes to fly small airplanes.

Positions Held at UM

Assistant Professor, Aerospace Engineering, 2017 to present