# Dev Update: Formal Methods

DevFeed: [Dev Update: Formal Methods](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/dev-update-formal-methods-16778.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2016/09/01/formal-methods-roadmap>)

Author: Christian Reitwiessner

Published: 2016-09-01T19:55:01Z

Content type: news

Language: en

Sources: [Ethereum Foundation Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/ethereum-foundation-blog.md>)

Topics: [Ethereum](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ethereum.md>), [Formal verification](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/formal-verification.md>), [Solidity](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/solidity.md>), [Formal methods](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/formal-methods.md>), [Coq](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/coq.md>), [Compiler](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/compiler.md>), [Concurrent Programming](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/concurrent-programming.md>)

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## AI overview

Ethereum announces that Yoichi Hirai is joining the project as a formal verification engineer. The article discusses automatic analysis, manual proof development, and planned formal-methods work for Solidity and Ethereum-related tools.

## Source excerpt

Today, I am delighted to announce that Yoichi Hirai (pirapira on github) is joining the Ethereum project as a formal verification engineer. He holds a PhD from the University of Tokyo on the topic of formalizing communicating parallel processes and created formal verification tools for Ethereum in his spare time....