Ruben Martins

Ruben Martins

Assistant Research Professor

Office 7129 Gates and Hillman Centers

Email rubenm@andrew.cmu.edu

Department
Computer Science Department

Administrative Support Person
Emily Spencer

Research Interests
Systems

Advisees
Margarida Ferreira Farina

CSD Courses Taught

15689 - Spring, 2025

15639 - Spring, 2025

15698 - Spring, 2025

15697 - Spring, 2025

15690 - Spring, 2025

15639 - Fall, 2024

15604 - Fall, 2024

15697 - Fall, 2024

15689 - Fall, 2024

15698 - Fall, 2024

15414 - Spring, 2024

15614 - Spring, 2024

Biography

Ruben received his Ph.D. with honors from the Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal (2013). He was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Oxford, UK (2014-2015), and a postdoctoral researcher at UT Austin (2015-2017). He has published in top-tier venues, including, POPL, PLDI, FSE, SAT, CP, and has won a distinguished paper award at PLDI 2018 for his work on program synthesis. He has also developed several award-winning constraint solvers and is the main developer of Open-WBO: an open-source Maximum Satisfiability (MaxSAT) solver that won several gold medals in MaxSAT competitions. Open-WBO is used to solve many real-world discrete optimizations problems including finding an optimal seating arrangement for his own wedding.

Research interests lie in the intersection of constraint programming with program synthesis, analysis, and verification. Recent research focuses on using programming synthesis to improve programmer’s productivity and to automate data science-related tasks.