UCSD Programming Systems


The Programming Systems Group in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of California, San Diego is interested in developing new languages, compilers, program analysis techniques and development environments for making software systems easier to build, maintain and understand.

Lydia Zoghbi (started 2022)

Emmanuel Anaya Gonzalez (started 2022)

Cole Kurashige (started 2022)

Kasra Ferdowsi (started 2020)

Ruanqianqian (Lisa) Huang (started 2020)

Michael Borkowski (started 2020)

Zheng Guo (started 2019)

Nico Lehmann (started 2019)

David Thien (started 2019)

Yousef Al Hessi (started 2018)

Shraddha Barke (started 2018)

Cora Coleman (started 2018)

Michael James (started 2018)

Matthew Kolosick (started 2018)

Rose Kunkel (started 2018)

Dylan Lukes (started 2018)

George Sakkas (started 2018)

Tristan Knoth (started 2017)

Shravan Narayan (Ph. D. 2022)     Assistant Professor at UT Austin

John Renner (Ph. D. 2022)     Cubist

Hila Peleg (postdoc 2019-2021)     Senior Lecturer at the Technion

Anish Tondwalkar     Google

Mario Alvarez (Ph. D. 2021)     ConsenSys

Alex Sanchez-Stern (Ph. D. 2021)     Postdoc at UMass Amherst

Klaus von Gleissenthall (postdoc 2016-2020)     Assistant Professor at VU Amsterdam

Ben Cosman (Ph. D. 2020)     Teaching Assistant Professor at UIUC

Rami Gokhan Kici (Ph. D. 2020)

John Sarracino (Ph. D. 2020)     Postdoc at Cornell

Marc Andrysco (Ph. D. 2019)     Vakaros

Valentin Robert (Ph. D. 2018)     Galois, inc.

Dimitar Bounov (Ph. D. 2018)     ConsenSys

Alexander Bakst (Ph. D. 2017)     Qualcomm, then Galois, inc.

Alan Leung (Ph. D. 2017)     Microsoft

Panagiotis Vekris (Ph. D. 2017)     Facebook

Daniel Ricketts (Ph. D. 2017)     Oracle

Erik Seidel (Ph. D. 2017)     Bloomberg

Niki Vazou (Ph. D. 2016)     Research Professor at IMDEA, Madrid

Ming Kawaguchi (Ph. D. 2016)     Postdoc at Harvard

Stephen Foster (Ph. D. 2015)     CEO of ThoughtSTEM

Samantha Wood (M.S. 2015)

Zachary Tatlock (Ph. D. 2014)     Assistant Professor at University of Washington

Dongseok Jang (Ph. D. 2014)     Google

Ravi Chugh (Ph. D. 2012)     Assistant Professor at University of Chicago

Patrick Rondon (Ph. D. 2012)     Google

Ross Tate (Ph. D. 2012)     Assistant Professor at Cornell

Mike Stepp (Ph. D. 2011)     Google

Jeffrey A. Meister (M.S. 2011)     MyLife

Sudipta Kundu (Ph. D. 2009)     Synopsis

Macneil Shonle (Ph. D. 2009)     Assistant Professor at the University of Texas at San Antonio, then Google

Jan Wen Voung (Ph. D. 2009)     Google

Chip Killian (Ph. D. 2009)     Assitant Professor at Purdue, then Google