Yusuke MATSUSHITA (松下 祐介)

(Last updated: Mar 15, 2025)

I am a software scientist. I specialize in formal verification of stateful programs, especially those written in Rust (e.g., my work RustHorn and RustHornBelt). I am also curious about many other topics, including algorithms and natural language processing (e.g., SoftMatcha).

From April 2025, I will be a Program-Specific Assistant Professor at the Hakubi Center for Advanced Research, Kyoto University. Until March 2025, I work as a JSPS Fellow (PD) at the Computer Software Group, Grad School of Informatics, Kyoto University.

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Email: ysk.m24t@gmail.com

Curriculum Vitae (Last updated: Mar 15, 2025)

Papers

• Hiroyuki Deguchi, Go Kamoda, Yusuke Matsushita, Chihiro Taguchi, Kohei Suenaga, Masaki Waga and Sho Yokoi.
  SoftMatcha: A Soft and Fast Pattern Matcher for Billion-Scale Corpus Searches.
  ICLR 2025. Apr 24-28, 2025.
  Webpage, OpenReview
• Takashi Nakayama, Yusuke Matsushita, Ken Sakayori, Ryosuke Sato and Naoki Kobayashi.
  Borrowable Fractional Ownership Types for Verification.
  VMCAI 2024. Jan 15-16, 2024.
  Paper: Springer
  Talk at VMCAI 2024: YouTube
• Yusuke Matsushita, Xavier Denis, Jacques-Henri Jourdan and Derek Dreyer.
  RustHornBelt: A Semantic Foundation for Functional Verification of Rust Programs with Unsafe Code.
  ACM PLDI 2022. June 13-17, 2022.
  Distinguished Paper Award
  Paper: ACM-DL, Authors’
  Artifacts: Zenodo; Coq mechanization, Benchmarks
  Talk at PLDI 2022: Slides, YouTube
• Yusuke Matsushita, Takeshi Tsukada and Naoki Kobayashi.
  RustHorn: CHC-based Verification for Rust Programs.
  ACM TOPLAS. Oct 31, 2021.
  Extended version of the same-titled ESOP 2020 paper.
  Paper: ACM-DL, Authors’
• Yusuke Matsushita, Takeshi Tsukada and Naoki Kobayashi.
  RustHorn: CHC-based Verification for Rust Programs.
  ESOP 2020. Apr 27-29, 2020.
  Selected to TOPLAS Special Issue on ESOP 2020
  Paper: Authors’, Springer, arXiv
  Talk at ESOP 2020: Slides (Keynote), Video
  Artifacts: Zenodo; GitHub Repo

Theses

• Yusuke Matsushita.
  Non-Step-Indexed Separation Logic with Invariants and Rust-Style Borrows (不変条件と Rust 流の借用を扱える非 Step-Indexed な分離論理).
  Ph.D. dissertation. University of Tokyo. Supervised by Prof. Naoki Kobayashi. Dec 6, 2023.
  Paper: Author’s
  Talk: Slides (Keynote)
• Yusuke Matsushita.
  Extensible Functional-Correctness Verification of Rust Programs by the Technique of Prophecy (預言の技術による Rust プログラムの拡張可能な機能正当性検証).
  Master’s thesis. University of Tokyo. Supervised by Prof. Naoki Kobayashi. Feb 24, 2021.
  Predecessor of the RustHornBelt paper.
  Paper: Author’s
  Talk: Slides (Keynote)
• Yusuke Matsushita.
  CHC-based Program Verification Exploiting Ownership Types (所有権型を利用した CHC ベースのプログラム検証).
  Senior thesis. University of Tokyo. Supervised by Prof. Naoki Kobayashi. Feb 28, 2019.
  Predecessor of the RustHorn paper.
  Paper: Author’s
  Talk: Slides (Keynote)

Lectures

• Yusuke Matsushita. The Fun of Rust.
  Lecture for the Course of CCE, Grad School of Informatics, Kyoto University. Dec 20, 2024.
  Slides (Keynote), Info
• Yusuke Matsushita. 分離論理 Iris の世界 (The World of Separation Logic Iris).
  Invited lecture at PPL Summer School 2024. Sept 9, 2024.
  Slides (Keynote), YouTube
• Yusuke Matsushita and Takashi Nakayama. ソフトウェアの科学 〜バグのない世界を目指して〜 (Science of Software, Aspiring to a World Free of Bugs).
  Open Campus 2023, the Faculty of Science, the University of Tokyo. Aug 2, 2023.
  Slides (Keynote), YouTube

Talks

• Yusuke Matsushita, Kengo Hirata and Ryo Wakizaka.
  Concurrent Quantum Separation Logic for Fine-Grained Parallelism.
  Talk at TPSA 2025. Jan 21, 2025. Extended abstract, Slides (Powerpoint)
  Talk at PLanQC 2025 (Presented by Ryo Wakizaka). Jan 25, 2025. Extended abstract, Slides (Powerpoint)
• Yusuke Matsushita.
  Rust から広がるプログラム検証・テストの新展望 (New Perspectives on Program Verification and Testing Spreading from Rust).
  Invited talk at PRO-2024-1. Jun 14, 2024. Slides (Keynote)
• Yusuke Matsushita, Xavier Denis, Jacques-Henri Jourdan and Derek Dreyer.
  RustHornBelt: A Semantic Foundation for Functional Verification of Rust Programs with Unsafe Code. PLDI 2022.
  Talk at PLDI 2022. June 17, 2022. Slides, YouTube
• Yusuke Matsushita, Takeshi Tsukada and Naoki Kobayashi.
  RustHorn: CHC-based Verification for Rust Programs. ESOP 2020.
  Talk at ESOP 2020. Mar 31, 2021 (delayed due to the pandemic). Slides (Keynote), Video
  Invited talk at JSSST 2020. Sept 10, 2020. Slides (Keynote), YouTube
  Talk at PPL 2020. Mar 4, 2020. Slides (Keynote)

Posters

• Yusuke Matsushita, Yudai Tanabe, Taro Sekiyama and Atsushi Igarashi.
  Linear Haskell での Rust 流借用の純粋な実現 (Pure Realization of Rust-Style Borrows in Linear Haskell).
  PPL 2025. Mar 3-5, 2025. PDF (Keynote)
  Best Poster Award
• Yusuke Matsushita, Takeshi Tsukada and Naoki Kobayashi.
  所有権型を利用した CHC ベースのプログラム検証 (CHC-based Program Verification Exploiting Ownership Types).
  PPL 2019. Mar 6, 2019. PDF (Keynote)

Articles

• Yusuke Matsushita. Non-Step-Indexed Separation Logic with Invariants and Rust-Style Borrows.
  2023 年度研究会推薦博士論文速報 (Bulletin of Ph.D. Dissertations in AY 2023 Recommended by SIGs), Information Processing Society of Japan. Aug 15, 2024.
  HTML (Japanese)
• Yusuke Matsushita. ソフトウェアの世界を切り拓く (Breaking Ground in the World of Software).
  理学のススメ (An Encouragement of Science) No. 7 in the University of Tokyo 理学部ニュース (News from Faculty of Science) Vol. 54, No. 1, May 2022.
  Text: Author’s (Japanese & English); PDF, HTML (Japanese)

Grants

• Apr 2025 – (Mar 2030)
  The Hakubi Project, Kyoto University
  Exploring a New Age of Software Development Springing from Rust (Rust から広がる新時代のソフトウェア開発の探究)
• Apr 2024 – Mar 2027
  JSPS (学振) Research Fellowship for Young Scientists PD
  Foundations and Applications for Robust and High-Performance System Software (堅牢で高性能なシステムソフトウェアのための基礎と応用)
  KAKEN Page
• Apr 2021 – Mar 2024
  JSPS (学振) Research Fellowship for Young Scientists DC1
  Theory and Application for Robust and High-Performance Systems Programming Languages (堅牢で高性能なシステムプログラミング言語のための理論と応用)
  KAKEN Page

Work

• Apr 2025 – (Mar 2030)
  Program-Specific Assistant Professor at the Hakubi Center for Advanced Research, Kyoto University
  For the project “Exploring a New Age of Software Development Springing from Rust”
  Hosted by the Computer Software Group, Grad School of Informatics, Kyoto University
  Info about the selection
• Apr 2024 – Mar 2025
  JSPS Fellow (PD) at the Computer Software Group, Grad School of Informatics, Kyoto University

Teaching

• Aug 2024
  Lecturer of S15 Rust プログラム検証ゼミ (Rust Program Verification Seminar) at Security Camp 2024 by IPA
  • Blog articles “Rust で預言を使ったプログラム検証器を自作しよう (Let’s develop a prophecy-based program verifier in Rust by yourself)” by isan, a student of the seminar: #1, #2, #3
• Apr 2022 – Aug 2022, Apr 2019 – Aug 2019
  Teaching assistant of “Functional and Logic Programming Experiments” at Dept. of Information Science, School of Science, UTokyo
• Sept 2019 – Feb 2020
  Teaching assistant of “Processor and Compiler Experiments” at Dept. of Information Science, School of Science, UTokyo
• Mar 2018
  Lecturer of “Purely Functional Data Structures” at JOI 2017 Spring Training Camp
• Aug 2017
  Tutor on “Purely Functional Data Structures” (Chris Okasaki) at JOI 2017 Summer Seminar

Service

• Jan 2025 – Mar 2025
  Program committee member of PPL 2025

Internship

• Nov 2022 – Feb 2023
  Software engineer internship for Google ChromeOS, at Google Tokyo
• Sept 2020 – Dec 2020, Feb 2021 – July 2021
  Research internship (Online) at the RustBelt Team, MPI-SWS, supervised by Derek Dreyer
• Aug 2019 – Jan 2020
  Frontend and backend web engineer at CADDi (building a manufacturing platform), Tokyo, Japan
  Interview Article
• Mar 2017 – Mar 2019
  Software engineer at Morishita Lab (studying genome informatics), Dept. of Computational Biology and Medical Sciences, Grad School of Frontier Sciences, UTokyo, Japan

Education

• Apr 2021 – Mar 2024
  Ph.D. of Computer Science
  Kobayashi Lab, Dept. of Computer Science, Grad School of IST, UTokyo
• Apr 2019 – Mar 2021
  Master of Computer Science
  Kobayashi Lab, Dept. of Computer Science, Grad School of IST, UTokyo
• Apr 2017 – Mar 2019
  Bachelor of Science
  Dept. of Information Science, School of Science, UTokyo
• Apr 2015 – Mar 2017
  Natural Sciences I, College of Arts and Sciences Junior Div., UTokyo
• Apr 2009 – Mar 2015
  Nada Junior and Senior High School

Experiences

Competitive Programming

• AtCoder
• Contestant of the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) Asia Regionals of 2019 (Yokohama), 2018 (Yokohama) and 2016 (Tsukuba)
• Finalist of the Japanese Olympiad in Informatics (JOI) 2013 and 2012
• Tutor of Japan’s special team of the International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI) 2018

Piano and Music

• YouTube Channel @y.matsushita
• Mar 2022
  Gold Prize of Japan J.S. Bach Music Concours
• Dec 2019
  Finalist of Japan J.S. Bach Music Concours
• Dec 2015 – Dec 2016
  Leader of Piano Society, UTokyo

Debate

• Dec 2013
  Best 8 finalist of National High School English Debate Tournament as a team of Nada High School