Professor
Andrei
Popescu

PhD

School of Computer Science

Professor of Computing Foundations

School Programmes Lead (PGT)

Member of the Security of Advanced Systems research group

Member of the Foundations of Computation research group

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a.popescu@sheffield.ac.uk

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Professor Andrei Popescu
School of Computer Science
Regent Court (CS)
211 Portobello

Sheffield

S1 4DP

Profile

Andrei became a Senior Lecturer in the Security of Advanced Systems group in May 2020, and was promoted to Professor of Computing Foundations in January 2026. Previously, he worked as a Lecturer at Middlesex University and as a postdoctoral researcher at TU Munich. He has a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Bucharest.

Research interests
  • Proof assistants
  • Information flow security
  • Inductive and coinductive datatypes
  • Automated deduction
  • Syntax with bindings
Publications

Journal articles

  • Derrick J, Dongol B, Edmonds C, Griffin M, Popescu A & Wright J (2025) Relative Security: (Dis)Proving Resilience Against Semantic Optimization Vulnerabilities in Isabelle/HOL. Journal of Automated Reasoning, 69(4). RIS download Bibtex download
  • Cohen L, Jabarin A, Popescu A & Rowe RNS (2024) The complex(ity) landscape of checking infinite descent. Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages, 8(POPL), 1352-1384. View this article in WRRO RIS download Bibtex download
  • Popescu A (2024) Nominal recursors as epi-recursors. Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages, 8(POPL). View this article in WRRO RIS download Bibtex download
  • Popescu A (2023) Rensets and renaming-based recursion for syntax with bindings extended version. Journal of Automated Reasoning, 67(3). View this article in WRRO RIS download Bibtex download
  • Popescu A & Traytel D (2023) Admissible types-to-PERs relativization in higher-order logic. Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages, 7(POPL), 1214-1245. View this article in WRRO RIS download Bibtex download
  • Popescu A & Traytel D (2021) Distilling the requirements of Gödel’s incompleteness theorems with a proof assistant. Journal of Automated Reasoning, 65(7), 1027-1070. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Popescu A, Lammich P & Hou P (2021) CoCon: a conference management system with formally verified document confidentiality. Journal of Automated Reasoning, 65(2), 321-356. View this article in WRRO RIS download Bibtex download
  • (2020) Preface. IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering, 997(1), 011001-011001. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Gheri L & Popescu A (2020) A formalized general theory of syntax with bindings: extended version. Journal of Automated Reasoning, 64(4), 641-675. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Blanchette JC, Gheri L, Popescu A & Traytel D (2019) Bindings as bounded natural functors. Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages, 3(POPL), ---. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Cerrito S & Popescu A (2019) Preface. Lecture Notes in Computer Science Including Subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics, 11714 LNAI, V-vi. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Herzig A & Popescu A (2019) Preface. Lecture Notes in Computer Science Including Subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics, 11715 LNAI, v-vi. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Kunčar O & Popescu A (2019) From types to sets by local type definition in higher-order logic. Journal of Automated Reasoning, 62(2), 237-260. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Kunčar O & Popescu A (2019) A consistent foundation for Isabelle/HOL. Journal of Automated Reasoning, 62(4), 531-555. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Avigad J, Blanchette JC, Klein G, Paulson L, Popescu A & Snelting G (2018) Introduction to milestones in interactive theorem proving. Journal of Automated Reasoning, 61(1-4), 1-8. View this article in WRRO RIS download Bibtex download
  • Kunčar O & Popescu A (2018) Safety and conservativity of definitions in HOL and Isabelle/HOL. Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages, 2(POPL), ---. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Bauereiß T, Pesenti Gritti A, Popescu A & Raimondi F (2018) CoSMed: a confidentiality-verified social media platform. Journal of Automated Reasoning, 61(1-4), 113-139. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Blanchette J, Böhme S, Popescu A & Smallbone N (2017) Encoding monomorphic and polymorphic types. Logical Methods in Computer Science, 12(4), 1-52. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Blanchette JC, Popescu A & Traytel D (2017) Soundness and completeness proofs by coinductive methods. Journal of Automated Reasoning, 58(1), 149-179. RIS download Bibtex download
  • (2016) 7th International Conference on Advanced Concepts in Mechanical Engineering. IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering, 147, 011001-011001. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Blanchette JC, Popescu A & Traytel D (2015) Foundational extensible corecursion: a proof assistant perspective. ACM SIGPLAN Notices, 50(9), 192-204. View this article in WRRO RIS download Bibtex download
  • Blanchette JC, Popescu A & Traytel D (2015) Witnessing (Co)datatypes. Programming Languages and Systems: 24th European Symposium on Programming, ESOP 2015, Held as Part of the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2015, London, UK, April 11-18, 2015, Proceedings, 9032, 359-382. View this article in WRRO RIS download Bibtex download
  • Popescu A & Roşu G (2015) Term-generic logic. Theoretical Computer Science, 577, 1-24. View this article in WRRO RIS download Bibtex download
  • Nipkow T & Popescu A (2014) Making security type systems less ad hoc. IT - Information Technology, 56(6), 267-272. View this article in WRRO RIS download Bibtex download
  • Doroftei I, Oprisan C & Popescu A (2014) Preface. Applied Mechanics and Materials, 659. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Doroftei I, Oprisan C & Popescu A (2014) Preface. Applied Mechanics and Materials, 658. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Popescu A, Hölzl J & Nipkow T (2013) Formal verification of language-based concurrent noninterference. Journal of Formalized Reasoning, 6(1), 1-30. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Popescu A & Gunter EL (2011) Recursion principles for syntax with bindings and substitution. ACM SIGPLAN Notices, 46(9), 346-358. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Popescu A, Şerbănuţă TF & Roşu G (2009) A semantic approach to interpolation. Theoretical Computer Science, 410(12-13), 1109-1128. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Popescu A (2007) Some algebraic theory for many-valued relation algebras. Algebra universalis, 56(2), 211-235. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Gâinâ D & Popescu A (2007) An Institution-Independent Proof of the Robinson Consistency Theorem. Studia Logica, 85(1), 41-73. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Georgescu G & Popescu A (2006) A new class of probabilities on Łukasiewicz-Moisil algebras. Journal of Multiple Valued Logic and Soft Computing, 12(3-4 SPEC. ISS.), 337-354. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Georgescu G & Popescu A (2006) A common generalization for MV-algebras and Łukasiewicz–Moisil algebras. Archive for Mathematical Logic, 45(8), 947-981. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Georgescu G, Leuştean I & Popescu A (2006) Order convergence and distance on Łukasiewicz-Moisil algebras. Journal of Multiple Valued Logic and Soft Computing, 12(1-2), 33-69. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Popescu A (2005) Łukasiewicz-Moisil Relation Algebras. Studia Logica, 81(2), 167-189. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Popescu A (2005) Many-valued relation algebras. Algebra universalis, 53(1), 73-108. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Georgescu G & Popescu A (2004) Non-dual fuzzy connections. Archive for Mathematical Logic, 43(8), 1009-1039. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Popescu A (2004) A general approach to fuzzy concepts. Mathematical Logic Quarterly, 50(3), 265-280. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Georgescu G & Popescu A (2004) Non-commutative fuzzy structures and pairs of weak negations. Fuzzy Sets and Systems, 143(1), 129-155. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Georgescu G & Popescu A (2003) Non-commutative fuzzy Galois connections. Soft Computing, 7(7), 458-467. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Georgescu G & Popescu A (2002) Concept lattices and similarity in non-commutative fuzzy logic. Fundamenta Informaticae, 53(1), 23-54. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Tomas E, Popescu A, Zuivertz A, Jucu V, Czabor F & Cristescu C (1995) Study of the antiviral activity of some new classes of AS-triazine derivatives (preliminary note).. Rom J Virol, 46(1-2), 51-56. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Zaharia CN, Cristea M, Petrescu A, Jucu V & Popescu AI (1994) Investigations on the influence of the experimental infection with the herpes simplex virus type 1 on the electrophoretic mobility of some cultured cells.. Rev Roum Virol, 45(1-2), 55-67. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Popescu A & Cernescu C (1994) CD 26--to be or not to be a cofactor for CD 4 receptor of human immunodeficiency viruses.. Rev Roum Virol, 45(3-4), 203-209. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Popescu A, Zuivertz A, Olinescu R, Tomas S, Tomas E & Jucu V (1992) Antiviral activity of some copper complexes of symmetrical triazines.. Rev Roum Virol, 43(3-4), 181-184. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Olinescu R, Săvoiu D, Popescu A, Zuivertz A & Tomas E (1992) Induction of chemiluminescent emission in polymorphonuclear leucocytes stimulated by Sendai virus.. Rev Roum Virol, 43(3-4), 175-179. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Popescu A, Jucu V, Tomas E, Zuiwertz A, Cristescu C & Tomas S (1992) Antiviral activity of some copper complexes of as-triazines.. Rev Roum Virol, 43(1-2), 125-126. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Tomas ST, Titire A, Popescu A, Tomas E & Cajal N (1991) Potential antiviral activity of copper complexes, derived from symmetrical triazines hydrazones.. Rev Roum Virol, 42(1-2), 71-75. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Tomas E, Popescu A, Titire A, Cajal N, Cristescu C & Tomas S (1989) Viral infection correlated with superoxide anion radicals production and natural and synthetic copper complexes.. Virologie, 40(4), 305-312. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Zuivertz A, Tomas S, Popescu A, Cristescu C & Tomas E (1988) Effects of asymmetrical triazine copper complexes on superoxide radical formation and on the Sendai virus multiplication.. Virologie, 39(3), 217-220. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Tomas E, Dumitrescu SM, Popescu A & Cajal N (1985) Structural particularities of parainfluenza type 1 (Sendai) virus progens obtained by cultivation in the presence of ceruloplasmin.. Virologie, 36(3), 201-206. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Tomas E, Samuel I, Popescu A & Cajal N (1983) Comparative study of some characteristics of influenza virus A/PR8/34 (H1N1) cultivated on chorioallantoic membrane fragments in the presence of ceruloplasmin or of parainfluenza type I (Sendai) virus.. Virologie, 34(4), 295-301. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Petrescu A, Cajal N, Broniţki A, Mihail A, Teodosiu O, Popescu G, Isaia G & Popescu A (1977) The experience of the "Stefan S. Nicolau" Institue of Virology in the preparation of administration of inactivated influenza vaccines applicable by nasal or oral route.. Virologie, 28(3), 213-217. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Potop I, Boeru V, Prahoveanu E, Simionescu L, Petrescu A & Popescu A (1977) Stimulation of anti-influenza serum antibody formation in the rat using bovine thymus polypeptide extract.. Endocrinologie, 15(1), 13-18. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Sahnazarov N, Mutiu A, Dumitrescu SM, Cajal N, Popescu A & Constantinescu O (1977) Cellular transformation in vitro induced by herpes simplex virus (HSV). Note IV. Presence of viral antigens and herpes-like particles in the T-TR1 tumor cell line.. Virologie, 28(4), 283-287. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Petrescu A, Broniţki AL, Teodosiu O, Mihail A, Popescu A, Cojiţă M, Petrişor L, Ialomiţeanu M, Mîşcă C, Sferdean O , Botgros V et al (1976) Virological study of some influenza outbreaks in the period January--March 1975.. Virologie, 27(2), 111-114. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Petrescu A, Mihail A, Popescu A, Cojiţă M, Sternberg I, Steiner N & Hondor C (1976) Bivalent influenza vaccination with inactivated vaccines administered by nasal or oral route.. Virologie, 27(1), 41-45. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Petrescu A, Broniţki A, Mihal A, Teodosiu O, Isaia G, Popescu A, Doicescu M, Diaconu A, Oroian E, Bolgar E , Varga N et al (1975) [Studies of the influenza epidemic of January-March, 1974].. Rev Ig Bacteriol Virusol Parazitol Epidemiol Pneumoftiziol Bacteriol Virusol Parazitol Epidemiol, 20(3), 147-152. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Teodosiu O, Sărăţeanu D, Popescu A & Mihail A (1974) Study of some influenza virus strains isolated in Romania during the epidemics of 1971-1972.. Rev Roum Virol (1972), 11(2), 171-177. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Bronitki A, Sărăţeanu D, Surdan C & Popescu A (1974) Equine epizootic caused by influenza virus type A2/England 42/72.. Rev Roum Virol (1972), 25(3), 207-210. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Sărăţeanu D, Broniţki A, Popescu A, Teodosiu O & Isaia G (1974) Incidence of coronavirus OC43 antibodies among the population of Romania.. Rev Roum Virol (1972), 25(3), 255-258. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Cajal N, Sărăteanu D, Petrescu A, Mihail A, Popescu A & Teodosiu O (1974) Preliminary data on the efficiency of an inactivated influenza vaccine administered by oral route.. Rev Roum Virol (1972), 25(1), 23-27. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Cajal N, Sărăţeanu D, Petrescu A, Mihail A, Popescu A & Teodosiu O (1973) [Study of the effectiveness of an inactivated influenza vaccine in intra nasal administration. II. Observations made during the epidemic of December 1972].. Stud Cercet Virusol, 24(5), 357-362. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Moisa I, Broniţki A, Popescu A & Marinescu G (1970) [Studies of influenza virus infections in the population of the city of Bucharest in the period of June 1969--April 1970].. Stud Cercet Inframicrobiol, 21(6), 475-489. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Moisa I, Popescu A, Broniţki A & Marinescu G (1970) [Laboratory studies of the epidemic of influenza in Bucharest (April-May 1969)].. Stud Cercet Inframicrobiol, 21(1), 7-23. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Măgureanu E, Grobnicu M, Muşetescu M, Dumitrescu S & Popescu A (1969) [Study of anti-rubella immunity in the Socialist Republic of Rumania with the hemagglutination inhibition (HAI) test].. Microbiol Parazitol Epidemiol (Bucur), 14(3), 215-220. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Moisa I, Broniţki A, Popescu A, Marinescu G & Malian A (1969) [Laboratory study of several epidemic foci of influenza during the years 1967 and 1968].. Stud Cercet Inframicrobiol, 20(2), 99-108. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Cepleanu M, Sorodoc Y, Băhnăreanu D, Bîrzu N, Doicescu M, Ianopol L, Ionescu N, Popescu A, Olaru G, Tîrnoveanu G , Totescu E et al (1967) [Incidence of anti-measles hemagglutination-inhibiting antibodies in some regions of the Rumanian Socialist Republic].. Stud Cercet Inframicrobiol, 18(1), 45-54. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Broniţki A, Barbu C, Popescu A, Moisa I & Malian A (1966) [Laboratory research on the influenza epidemic of January-February 1966 in Bucharest].. Stud Cercet Inframicrobiol, 17(5), 367-370. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Popescu A () Supernominal Datatypes and Codatatypes. Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science, 332. RIS download Bibtex download
  • () The 8th International Conference on Advanced Concepts in Mechanical Engineering. IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering, 444, 011001-011001. RIS download Bibtex download
  • () An Institution-independent Generalization of Tarski's Elementary Chain Theorem. Journal of Logic and Computation, 17(3), 605-605. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Gaina D & Popescu A () An Institution-independent Generalization of Tarski's Elementary Chain Theorem. Journal of Logic and Computation, 16(6), 713-735. RIS download Bibtex download

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Research group

Member of the Security of Advanced Systems research group

Affiliate Member of the Foundations of Computations research group

Grants
  • Learning Logical Structure for a Better Proving Experience, Renaissance Philanthropy, 09/2025 - 09/2027, £328,937, as PI
  • COVERT: Safe and secure COncurrent programming for adVancEd  aRchiTectures, EPSRC, 09/2023 – 09/2027, £ 422,585, as Co PI
  • Security of Digital Twins in Manufacturing, EPSRC, 10/2021 - 05/2025, £774,954, as Co-PI
  • Cyclic Reasoning Mechanisms for Interactive Theorem Proving, Royal Society, 08/2021 - 03/2025, £12,000, as PI
  • 2019–2020 Principal investigator for VeTSS grant “Formal Verification of Information Flow Security for Relational Databases” (£86 198)
  • 2016–2018 Principal investigator for EPSRC grant “Verification of Web-based Systems (VOWS),” acquired via the first grant scheme (£100 933)