Corto Mascle

MPI-SWS, Kaiserslautern

About

I am currently doing a postdoc in MPI-SWS, Kaiserslautern, with Georg Zetzsche, in the Models of Computation group. Before that, I completed a PhD in LaBRI, Bordeaux, under the supervision of Anca Muscholl and Igor Walukiewicz. My thesis was about verification and control problems over models of distributed systems, but I am interested in everything related to automata, logics and games. Before that, from 2017 to 2021, I was a student at the ENS Paris-Saclay.

My research blog

  • SOAP (Simple Open and Annoying Problems)

Interns

  • Sahana Jahagirdar, on Positional strategies for populations of MDPs, June-July 2026
  • Aurélien Blancal-Simon, on representations of semi-linear sets, co-supervised with Georg Zetzsche, March-July 2026
  • Théo Lacoste, on implementation of killing words search in unambiguous automata, June-July 2024
  • Erwann Loulergues, on expressivity of keyboard models, co-supervised with Vincent Penelle, June-July 2024
  • Romain Delpy, on deadlock detection in lock-sharing systems, co-supervised with Anca Muscholl, June-July 2023

Miscellaneous

Me Theoretical Computer Scientists for Future

News

  • October 2026
    Attending Highlights and the CREW in Vienna. I am co-organising a workshop on automata for the modelisation of infinite-state systems, with Isa Vialard
  • November 2026
    Invited speaker at the GT vérif annual meeting in Rennes