Scholar
Sam Westrick
Google Scholar ID: RVeOcIgAAAAJ
New York University
Citations & Impact
Citations
211
H-index
9
i10-index
7
Publications
20
Co-authors
18
list available
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Publications: multiple papers accepted at POPL, QCE, and other conferences, with best paper and distinguished paper awards. Recipient of the SIGPLAN Reynolds Doctoral Dissertation Award. Led the development of MaPLe (MPL), an efficient and scalable parallel functional programming language.
Research Experience
- Currently an assistant professor of computer science at the Courant Institute, New York University, leading the ParCour lab and a member of ACSys. Previously, a post-doc at Carnegie Mellon University.
Education
- PhD: Carnegie Mellon University, 2022; Advisor: Umut Acar
Background
- Research interests: provably efficient and safe implementations of high-level programming languages, especially for parallel programming. The goal is to make it simpler and safer to develop parallel software by providing strong guarantees on not only safety but also performance.
Miscellany
- Blog and other social media links: bsky, mastodon, github, twitter
