Luca Cardelli

Luca Cardelli

Born	Luca Andrea Cardelli Montecatini Terme, Italy
Residence	Cambridge, UK
Fields	Type theory Operational semantics
Institutions	Bell Labs Microsoft Research Digital Equipment Corporation University of Edinburgh
Alma mater	University of Pisa University of Edinburgh
Thesis	An algebraic approach to hardware description and verification (1982)
Doctoral advisor	Gordon Plotkin
Doctoral students	Alexander Summers
Known for	Theory of Objects with Martín Abadi
Notable awards	Fellow of the Royal Society (2005) Dahl-Nygaard Prize (2007) Fellow of the ACM
Website lucacardelli.name

Luca Andrea Cardelli FRS is an Italian computer scientist who is an Assistant Director at Microsoft Research in Cambridge, UK. Cardelli is well known for his research in type theory and operational semantics. Among other contributions, he helped design Modula-3, implemented the first compiler for the (non-pure) functional programming language ML, and defined the concept of typeful programming. He helped develop the Polyphonic C# experimental programming language.

He was born in Montecatini Terme, Italy. He attended the University of Pisa before receiving his PhD from the University of Edinburgh in 1982. Before joining Microsoft Research in 1997, he worked for Bell Labs and Digital Equipment Corporation, and contributed to Unix software including vismon.

In 2004 he was inducted as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society. In 2007, Cardelli was awarded the Senior AITO Ole-Johan Dahl and Kristen Nygaard prize.