Alexandra Mendes is an Assistant Professor at Departamento de Informática, University of Beira Interior, and a researcher at INESC TEC. She is also a member of the Formal Methods Teaching Committee and a a Fellow of The Higher Education Academy (HEA).
Her research focuses on innovative user interfaces for formal methods and mathematical approaches to software quality. Through her research she aims at encouraging a wider adoption of software verification by creating tools and methods that hide the complexities of verifying software. She is also interested on innovative and fun ways to teach Computer Science.
PhD in Computer Science
University of Nottingham, UK
BSc in Mathematics and Computer Science
Minho University, Portugal
Tools and methods to improve password security.
Tools, methods, and resources that support teaching formal methods.
Innovative user interfaces to support the handwriting of formal proofs.