Marcelo Alejandro Forets

Researcher in Applied Mathematics. Developer. Grado 3, Universidad de la República (CURE), Uruguay.

Departamento de Matemática y Aplicaciones

Centro Universitario Regional del Este (CURE), UdelaR

Maldonado, Uruguay

Marcelo Forets is a researcher and developer working on formal verification of dynamical systems. He develops numerical methods that impact decisions regarding correctness and safety of mechanical, electronic, or cyber-physical systems.

He was born in Montevideo, Uruguay (1988), graduated in Physics from Universidad de la República (Facultad de Ciencias), and then in Electrical Engineering (Facultad de Ingeniería). He moved to France for a PhD in Mathematics and Informatics (Univ. Joseph Fourier, 2013–2015), writing a thesis on quantum computational models and the mathematical physics of the quantum-mechanical version of the random walk. He was a post-doctoral researcher at the VERIMAG laboratory of Université Grenoble Alpes, a leading research institute on verification and cyber-physical systems.

He is currently one of the lead developers of JuliaReach, an open-source software toolbox for reachability computations of dynamical systems.

Contact information

  • Email: mforets at gmail.com

latest posts

selected publications

  1. JuliaReach: a Toolbox for Set-Based Reachability
    Sergiy Bogomolov, Marcelo Forets, Goran Frehse, and 2 more authors
    In Proceedings of the 22nd ACM International Conference on Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control (HSCC’19), 2019
  2. Reachability Analysis of Linear Hybrid Systems via Block Decomposition
    Sergiy Bogomolov, Marcelo Forets, Goran Frehse, and 2 more authors
    IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, 2020
    Presented at ESWEEK/EMSOFT 2020
  3. LazySets.jl: Scalable Symbolic-Numeric Set Computations
    Marcelo Forets and Christian Schilling
    Proceedings of the JuliaCon Conferences, 2021
  4. Decomposing Reach Set Computations with Low-Dimensional Sets and High-Dimensional Matrices (Extended Version)
    Sergiy Bogomolov, Marcelo Forets, Goran Frehse, and 2 more authors
    Information and Computation, 2022
  5. Combining Set Propagation with Finite Element Methods for Time Integration in Transient Solid Mechanics Problems
    Marcelo Forets, Daniel Freire Caporale, and Jorge M. Pérez Zerpa
    Computers & Structures, 2022
  6. Verified Propagation of Imprecise Probabilities in Non-Linear ODEs
    Ander Gray, Marcelo Forets, Christian Schilling, and 2 more authors
    International Journal of Approximate Reasoning, 2024
    Article first available online in 2023