Tarmo Uustalu

Tarmo Uustalu
Born (1969-01-19) January 19, 1969
CitizenshipEstonian
Known forProgramming language semantics; proof and type theory; program logics; high-assurance software
AwardsEstonian National Research Award (2015)
Order of the White Star (III class, 2019)
Academic background
Alma materTallinn University of Technology (MSc)
KTH Royal Institute of Technology (Licentiate; PhD)
ThesisNatural deduction for intuitionistic least and greatest fixedpoint logics: with an application to program construction (1998)
Academic work
DisciplineComputer science
InstitutionsTallinn University of Technology
Reykjavík University

Tarmo Uustalu (born 19 January 1969) is an Estonian computer scientist. He is a professor in the School of Computer Science at Reykjavík University and a lead research scientist at the Tallinn University of Technology (TalTech). At TalTech he heads the High-assurance Software Laboratory. Uustalu has been a member of the Estonian Academy of Sciences since 2010.

Uustalu received the Estonian National Research Award in 2015 for a research series on mathematical structures in functional programming. In 2019 he was awarded the Order of the White Star, III class.