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July, 2022
I am delivering a keynote Ownership-Driven Synthesizer for Automatic C to Rust Translation at the Global Software Technology Summit organised by Huawei Ireland Research Centre.
May, 2022
Modular Probabilistic Models via Algebraic Effects is accepted by ICFP’22.
Dec, 2021
Funding success! Ownership and Lifetime Driven Synthesizer for Automatic C to Rust Translation is funded by Huawei Ireland.
Sep, 2021
Two papers Staging with Class and Linked visualisations via Galois dependencies are accepted by POPL’22.
Sep, 2021
Synbit: Synthesizing Bidirectional Programs using Unidirectional Sketches is accepted by OOPSLA’21.
Aug, 2021
My student Minh Nguyen won the first place at the ACM Student Research Competition (ICFP) with Composable, Modular Probabilistic Models. Congratulations Minh!
June, 2021
I am chairing the Bx workshop with Leen Lambers.
June, 2021
Hanliang Zhang joins the team as a research assistant on the Rust project.
Feb, 2021
Funding success! Verified Program Synthesis for Refactoring Rust Programs is funded by the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC).
Jan, 2021
Ningning Xie from University of Hongkong is visiting us for four months. Welcome Ningning!
Dec, 2020
Weixin Zhang joins the team as a senior research associate on the EXHIBIT project. Welcome Weixin!
Jun, 2020
I am very glad to be nominated for Inspiring and Innovative Teaching Award at Bristol for my Functional Programming unit. I had a lot of fun and it seems that the students did too!
May, 2020
Sparcl: A Language for Partially-Invertible Computation is (unconditionally) accepted by ICFP’20.
Mar 2020
Project Making Software Development Language-Agnostic through Cross-Language Mapping and Migration funded by the Royal Society (IES\R3\193175).
Dec, 2019
I am co-chairing the Ninth International Workshop on Bidirectional Transformations (BX 2020). Deadline for papers is 4 May 2020.
Nov, 2019
Three PhD students (Samantha Frohlich, Minh Nguyen, and Anton Antich) are starting in early 2020. Welcome!
Oct, 2019
A Study of Programming Languages and Their Bug Resolution Characteristics is accepted by Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE).
Sep 2019
Project EXHIBIT : Expressive High-Level Languages for Bidirectional Transformations funded by EPSRC (EP/T008911/1).
Sep 2019
Dr Kazutaka Matsuda from Tohoku University is visiting for two weeks.
Aug 2019
Samantha Frohlich won the first prize of ICFP 2019 Student Research Competition (Undergraduate Category). Well done Sam!