I am currently a post-doctoral researcher at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center in Hawthorne, NY. I received my Ph.D. in Computer Science from Cornell University in January 2007. My advisor there was Andrew Myers. My main research interests are programming languages and distributed systems.
I am on the program committee for ECOOP 2008 in Paphos, Cyprus. The call for papers is forthcoming.
Projects
X10, a concurrent object-oriented programming language
X10 is a type-safe, parallel, distributed, object-oriented programming language being developed at IBM. I am involved in the design and implementation of the type system.
Jx/J&, languages for extensible, composable software frameworks
Nested inheritance is a language feature that provides scalable extensibility, the ability to extend a body of code while writing new code propotional to the differences in functionality and while ensuring type safety.
Polyglot, an extensible Java compiler framework
Polyglot is an extensible compiler framework that supports the easy creation of compilers for languages similar to Java, while avoiding code duplication. The Polyglot framework is useful for domain-specific languages, exploration of language design, and for simplified versions of Java for pedagogical use. Polyglot has been used to implement several modifications to Java, including Jif, JMatch, and Jx.
