Valeria de Paiva


Valeria Correa Vaz de Paiva is a Brazilian mathematician, logician, and computer scientist associated with Samsung Research America.
Her work includes research on logical approaches to computation, especially using category theory,
knowledge representation and natural language semantics, and functional programming with a focus on foundations and type theories.

Education

De Paiva earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics in 1982, a master's degree in 1984 and completed a doctorate at the University of Cambridge in 1988, under the supervision of Martin Hyland. Her thesis introduced Dialectica spaces, a categorical way of constructing models of linear logic.

Career and research

She worked for nine years at PARC in Palo Alto, California, and also worked at Rearden Commerce and Cuil before joining Nuance. She is an honorary research fellow in computer science at the University of Birmingham. She is currently on the Council of the Division for Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science and Technology of the International Union of History and Philosophy of Science and Technology.

Selected publications