The Lab for Programming Languages at the University of Maryland (PLUM) is engaged in exciting research that aims to improve software quality through new languages and software tools. Our work involves formalism and proof (e.g., to show that a particular analysis establishes a certain property of the programs it considers) as well as implementation and evaluation (e.g., to show that our ideas work on real software at reasonable cost). Current interests focus on formal verification, type systems, gradual typing and contracts, quantum programming languages, property-based testing, functional programming, program synthesis, static analysis, information flow control, privacy-preserving computation, and high-availability systems.
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Harry Goldstein joined UMD as the Vic Basili Postdoctoral Fellow!
Nikhil Kamath presented his research on Evaluating PBT Frameworks in OCaml at the 2024 PLDI Student Research Competition
Milijana Surbatovich joined UMD Computer Science as an Assistant Professor starting January 1st, 2024!
Two papers co-authored by PLUM members will appear at POPL 2024: Indexed Types for a Statically Safe WebAssembly by Adam Geller, Justin Frank, and William Bowman, and *Generating Well-Typed Terms that are not “Useless” by Justin Frank, Benjamin Quiring, and Leonidas Lampropoulos.
The paper Object Graph Programming, co-authored by PLUM member Leonidas Lampropoulos, with Aditya Thimmaia, Christopher Rossbach, and Milos Gligoric from UT Austin, will appear at ICSE 2024.
One paper co-authored by PLUM members will appear at Haskell Symposium 2023: Don’t Go Down the Rabbit Hole: Reprioritizing Enumeration for Property-Based Testing, by Segev Elazar Mittelman, Alvin Resnick, Ivan Perez, Alwyn Goodloe, and Leonidas Lampropoulos.
One paper co-authored by PLUM members will appear at ICFP 2023: Etna: An Evaluation Platform for Property-Based Testing (Experience Report), by Jessica Shi, Alperen Keles, Harrison Goldstein, Benjamin Pierce, and Leonidas Lampropoulos.
One paper co-authored by PLUM members will appear at CSF 2023: Formalizing Stack Safety as a Security Property by Sean Noble Anderson, Roberto Blanco, Leonidas Lampropoulos, Benjamin C. Pierce, and Andrew Tolmach.
Two papers co-authored by PLUM members will appear at PLDI 2023: Absynthe: Abstract Interpretation-Guided Synthesis by Sankha Narayan Guria, Jeffrey S. Foster, and David Van Horn; and Merging Inductive Relations, by Jacob Prinz, and Leonidas Lampropoulos.
Michael Hicks was selected as an ACM Fellow in 2022, citing his contributions to programming language design and implementation, program analysis, and software security.
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