Ph.D.

I have successfully defended my Ph.D. thesis titled

Auxiliary Computations. A Framework for a Step-Wise, Non-Disruptive Introduction of Static Guarantees to Untyped Programs Using Partial Evaluation Techniques.

My thesis was accepted without modifications by my three examiners: Bruce Christianson, Olivier Danvy and Kevin Hammond. I will make my thesis available here as soon as I have found the time to reformat it for publication.

I am most grateful to my two supervisors, Sven-Bodo Scholz and Alex Shafarenko, for their support and guidance. A big thank you!

CPC 2010

I will be at CPC 2010 (15th Workshop on Compilers for Parallel Computing) in Vienna beginning 7th of June. The paper I will present is titled

Thread-Local Stacks, a Light-Weight Alternative to Thread-Local Heaps.

It is a result of my work in the Apple-CORE project, in particular on programming the many-core Microgrid architecture. I am currently focussing on making implicit memory management work in such a setting and thread-local stacks are one steps towards that goal.

Another line of research I was involved with is Tim van Deurzen’s Bachelor’s thesis on dynamic runtime adaption of shape generic programs. The paper that describes his work is titled

An Adaptive Compilation Framework for Generic Data-Parallel Array Programming.

Clemens Grelck, his supervisor at the University of Amsterdam, will give the corresponding talk.

As always, if you are in or around Vienna, give me a shout so we can meet.