Prior to joining Georgia Tech in 2023, Vijay was a professor at the University of Waterloo from 2012 to 2023, where he also served as a Co-Director of the Waterloo AI Institute from 2021 to 2023. From 2007 to 2012, Vijay was a research scientist at MIT. Vijay completed his computer science PhD from Stanford University in 2007. The primary focus of Vijay's research is the theory and practice of SAT/SMT solvers and their applications in software engineering, security, AI, mathematics, and physics. Vijay currently leads the following projects:
MapleSAT
AlphaMapleSAT
Z3Alpha
Meta-solving
Z3str* string solvers
Parallel SAT for cryptanalysis
2. Logic for ML
Neurosymbolic AI for scientific discovery
Neurosymbolic AI for math
NeuroSymbolic AI for code
3. Proof Complexity Theory
Proof complexity-theoretic analysis of SAT/SMT solvers and formal methods
4. Software Engineering and Security
BanditFuzz: RL-guided performance fuzzer for SMT solver
Pierce: Performance testing of neural network verifiers
Security of blockchain technologies
Attack Resistance of Security Defense Mechanisms
STP bitvector and array solver (2005-2012)
Profile: CV (June 2025), Google Scholar, DBLP, LinkedIn, Math Genealogy, Simons Institute @ Berkeley, MathSciNet, ORCID
Notable Awards, Honors, Medals, and Distinctions
Below find a list of notable awards that Dr. Ganesh has received in his career. A complete list is available on his awards page.- Z3-alpha won several
              divisions at SMT-COMP
                2024 and SMT-COMP
                2025
 - Bronze medal at SAT 2023 Competition (main track)
 - NeurIPS Spotlight Poster 2023
 - University of
                Waterloo Engineering Research Excellence Award (EREA)
                2022
 - ACM ISSTA Impact Paper Award 2019 (Best paper in 10 years at ACM ISSTA conference)
 - Silver medal at SAT 2017 Competition
                (main track)
 - Silver medal at SAT 2017 Competition
                (no-limits track)
 - ACM Test of Time Award at CCS 2016 (Best paper in 10 years at ACM CCS conference)
 - Best
                Paper Award at ACSAC 2016
 - Ontario Early Researcher Award 2016, Canada
 - Gold medal at the SAT Competition 2016 (Main Track)
 - Gold medal at the SAT Competition 2016 (Application Track)
 - IBM Faculty Award 2015
 - Paper on MathCheck conjecture verifier selected for the JAR Journal Special Issue on Best Papers at CADE 2015
 - Paper on Z3str2 String Solver selected for FMSD Journal Special Issue on the Best Papers at CAV 2015
 - Google Faculty Research Award 2013 (Only 6 winners worldwide in software engineering in 2013)
 - Google Faculty Research Award 2011 (Only 9 winners worldwide in software engineering in 2011)
 - ACM Distinguished SIGSOFT Paper Award 2009 (for the HAMPI string solver paper)
 - Ten-year most influential paper citation at DATE 2008 (Best paper in 10 years at the DATE conference)
 
Professional Service
- Editor-in-chief: Springer book series titled "Progress in Computer Science and Applied Logic" (PCSAL). 2018-present
 - Associate
                          Editor: Maple Transactions. 2021-present
 - Member of Editorial Board: Journal of Satisfiability (JSAT). 2018-present
 - CSTVA Steering Committee Member 2017-present, The International SAT/SMT/AR Summer School Steering Committee Member 2017-present, SMT Steering Committee Member 2014-2015
 
- Co-chair: CAV
                          2024
 - Co-organizer: Dagsuthl seminar on "Machine Learning and Logical Reasoning: The New Frontier" 2022
 - Co-organizer: Dagstuhl seminar on "Theory and Practice of SAT and Combinatorial Solving" 2022
 - Co-chair: ATVA 2021
 - Co-organizer: Berkeley Simons Institute for Theory of Computing Workshop on Boolean SATisfiability 2021
 - Co-organizer: Dagstuhl seminar on Bringing CP, SAT and SMT together: Next Challenges in Constraint Solving 2019
 - Lead Organizer: Waterloo Workshop on Blockchain + Security 2019
 - Lead Organizer: Waterloo Workshop on Machine
                          Learning + Security + Verification 2019
 - Co-chair: Association of Symbolic Logic (ASL) Special Session on Computer-aided Proofs 2017
 - Co-chair: SC^2 Workshop (Symbolic
                          Computation + Satisfiability Checking) 2017
 - Co-chair: David Dill @ 60 Workshop at CAV 2017
 - Lead Organizer: Fields Institute workshop on Theoretical Foundations of SAT Solving 2016
 - Co-organizer:
                        Dagstuhl seminar on Theory and Practice of SAT
                          Solving 2015
 - Co-chair: SMT 2015
 - Co-chair: CSTVA 2014
 - Co-organizer:
                        Dagstuhl seminar on Symbolic Execution and
                          Constraint Solving 2014
                        
 - Lead Organizer: Summer School on SAT/SMT Solvers 2011 at MIT from June 12-17, 2011. (Reviews by Sean Heelan)
 - Lead
                          Organizer:  Summer School on Combination
                            of Decision Procedures 2004 at Stanford University from
                        Aug
                                          6-12, 2004
 
Contact Information
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                                                          of Computer
                                                          Science Klaus Advanced Computing Building, Room 2320 266 Ferst Dr NW, Atlanta, GA 30332, United States Phone: +1-404-385-6362  | 
                                                          

