Vinayak Prabhu is a postdoctoral researcher in the Rigorous Software Engineering group headed by Rupak Majumdar at the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems in Germany. He has been an Alexander von Humboldt postdoctoral fellow in Germany, and a Portuguese Science Foundation postdoctoral fellow in Portugal. He obtained his PhD in formal verification at the University of California at Berkeley under Thomas Henzinger and Pravin Varaiya. His research interests are in using formal methods techniques for the design and analysis of robust systems; in particular in the design, verification, testing, and control of models of Cyber-Physical Systems.