POPL 2024
Sun 14 - Sat 20 January 2024 London, United Kingdom
Wed 17 Jan 2024 10:15 - 10:25 at Siemens Boardroom - Wednesday Morning Session Previews Chair(s): Ariel E. Kellison

Viktor Kuncak ( http://lara.epfl.ch/~kuncak/ ) is an associate professor (with tenure) in the School of Computer and Communication sciences of EPFL (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne). He joined EPFL in 2007, after receiving a PhD degree from MIT. Since then has been leading the Laboratory for Automated Reasoning and Analysis and supervised 13 completed PhD theses. His works on languages, algorithms and systems for verification and automated reasoning (see e.g. https://stainless.epfl.ch/). He served as an initiator and one of the coordinators of a European network (COST action) in the area of automated reasoning, verification, and synthesis. In 2012 he received a 5-year single-investigator European Research Council (ERC) grant of 1.5M EUR. His invited talks include those at Lambda Days, Scala Days, NFM, LOPSTR, SYNT, ICALP, CSL, RV, VMCAI, and SMT. A paper on test generation he co-authored received an ACM SIGSOFT distinguished paper award at ICSE. A PLDI paper he co-authored was published in the Communications of the ACM as a Research Highlight article. His Google Scholar profile reports an over-approximate H-index of 39. He was an associate editor of ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems (TOPLAS) and served as a co-chair of conferences on Computer Aided Verification (CAV), Formal Methods in Computer Aided Design (FMCAD), Workshop on Synthesis (SYNT), and Verification, Model Checking, and Abstract Interpretation (VMCAI). At EPFL he teaches courses on functional and parallel programming, compilers, and verification. He has co-taught the MOOC “Parallel Programming” that was visited by over 100’000 learners and completed by thousands of students from all over the world.

Wed 17 Jan

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10:05 - 10:25
Wednesday Morning Session PreviewsSession Previews at Siemens Boardroom
Chair(s): Ariel E. Kellison Cornell University
10:05
10m
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Effect Handlers: Session Preview
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Sam Lindley University of Edinburgh
10:15
10m
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Automated Verification: Session Preview
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Viktor Kunčak EPFL, Switzerland