Eric Koskinen I am a Ph.D student at the Univeristy of Cambridge Computer Laboratory, jointly supervised by Byron Cook and Mike Gordon. I am funded by the Gates Cambridge Scholarship. I received my Sc.M from Brown University, where I worked with Maurice Herlihy. In my research, I develop new mathematical methods for making software safer and more efficient, and apply those methods to realistic computer systems. In recent years I have accomplished this in two ways. First, I have improved programming languages by introducing new language features which are, by design both safer and more efficient. In particular, I am concerned with language advances which enable engineers to safely produce software which consists of parallel computation (e.g. my work on Transactional Boosting and Coarse-Grained Transasctions). Second, I have developed static and dynamic analysis techniques in order to better understand the performance (e.g. discovering symbolic complexity bounds), understand the behavior (e.g. request tracing in BorderPatrol), discover bugs and formally prove correctness of programs (e.g. proving LTL properties with decision predicates).
As I expect to complete my degree by July 2011,
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