Rob Lorch
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PhD Candidate, Computer Science @ UIowa

Research Interests:
  - Automated reasoning 
  - Computer security 

Email:
  robert-lorch@uiowa.edu

Links:
  Google Scholar
  CV
  GitHub

About
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I'm a fourth-year computer science PhD candidate at the University of Iowa, where I am a member of the Computational Logic Center. I work under the supervision of Dr. Cesare Tinelli and Dr. Omar Chowdhury (@ Stony Brook University).

Publications 
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ICSE '26. R. Lorch, D. Dar, C. Tinelli, and O. Chowdhury, "Parse this! Summoning Context-Sensitive Inputs with Goblin" [pdf]

Systems Engineering '26. B. Meng, R. Lorch, K. Siu, M. Durling, S. Varanasi, S. Paul, and A. Moitra, "Transforming Natural Language Requirements to Formalism Using LLMs" [pdf]

S&P '25. D. Dar, R. Lorch, A. Sadeghi, V. Sorcigli, H. Gollier, C. Tinelli, M. Vanhoef, and O. Chowdhury, "SAECRED: A State-Aware, Over-the-Air Protocol Testing Approach for Discovering Parsing Bugs in SAE Handshake Implementations of COTS Wi-Fi Access Points" [pdf]

NFM '25. B. Meng, S. Varanasi, R. Lorch, A. Moitra, K. Siu, S. Paul, M. Durling, N. Beniwal and N. Visnevski, "TRACE: Toolkit for Requirements Analysis Capture and Elicitation" [pdf]

RAID '24. R. Lorch, D. Larraz, C. Tinelli, and O. Chowdhury, "A Comprehensive, Automated Security Analysis of the Uptane Automotive Over-the-Air Update Framework" [pdf]

FormaliSE '24. R. Lorch, B. Meng, K. Siu, A. Moitra, M. Durling, S. Paul, S. Varanasi, and C. McMillan, "Formal Methods in Requirements Engineering: Survey and Future Directions" [pdf]

FMCAD '23. D. Larraz, R. Lorch, M. Yahyazadeh, F. Arif, O. Chowdhury, and C. Tinelli, "CRV: Automated Cyber-Resiliency Reasoning for System Design Models" [pdf]

Australasian Journal of Combinatorics '22. B. Carrigan, D. Diaz, J. Hammer, J. Lorch, and R. Lorch, "Constructing (3, b)-sudoku pair Latin squares" [pdf]

Bulletin of the Institute of Combinatorics and its Applications '21. B. Carrigan, J. Hammer, J. Lorch, R. Lorch, and C. Owens, "List colorings count rokudoku-pair squares" [pdf]

Teaching
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Below is a list of courses I have taught in various capacities.

* UIowa Teaching Assistant
  [CS:4420, Spring '22] Artificial Intelligence
  [CS:5810, Fall '21] Formal Methods in Software Engineering 
  [CS:2640, Fall '21] Computer Organization

* Grinnell College Class Mentor
  [CSC-207, Spring '21] Object-oriented data structures and algorithms 

* Grinnell College Peer Tutor
  [CSC-161, Spring '21] Imperative problem solving and data structures