Kacper F. Korban

PhD student, SYSTEMF, EPFL

I am a PhD student at SYSTEMF@EPFL, supervised by Clément Pit-Claudel. My research is focused on compilers (especially verified ones), programming languages and formal verification. I am also interested in developer tooling, types, and software engineering in general.

Portrait of Kacper F. Korban

Selected work

  • ESOP 2024

    Verified Inlining and Specialisation for PureCake

    Abstract

    Inlining is a crucial optimisation for functional languages. We implemented and verified function inlining and loop specialisation for PureCake, a verified compiler for a Haskell-like, purely functional, lazy language. A novel part of our formalisation justifies inlining by pushing and pulling let bindings. The work was mechanised in HOL4.

  • POPL SRC 2026

    Bootstrapping a verified compiler for an imperative language in Rocq