Programming Languages and Software Systems (PLaSS) Research Group

Programming Languages and Software Systems (PLaSS) Research Group

News

Research

We design program analyses and software and hardware systems that make computing more reliable, scalable, and secure.

Publications (with open-source implementations)

People

Current members:

Michael Bond (faculty)
Chujun Geng (PhD student)
Vincent Beardsley (PhD student)
Chris Xiong (PhD student)
Victor Chen (PhD student)
Noah Charlton (BS+MS student)

Graduated members, with current positions (as of January 2025):

Jacob Bambeck (MS, 2022) — current affiliation unknown

Kaan Genç (MS, 2021) — Tailwind
Rui Zhang (PhD, 2020) — Huawei
Jake Roemer (PhD, 2019) — passed away in April 2020
Man Cao (PhD, 2017) — Google (Java Platform Team)
Aritra Sengupta (PhD, 2017) — Amazon AI
Swarnendu Biswas (PhD, 2016) — tenure-track faculty at IIT Kanpur
Minjia Zhang (PhD, 2016) — tenure-track faculty at UIUC (starting January 2024)
Jipeng Huang (MS, 2014) — Google (Google Cloud Platform)

A few not-so-recent photos