Biography
Olin Shivers is a professor in the Khoury College of Computer Science at Northeastern University, based in Boston.
Shivers’ interests lie in the design of tools that assist programmers in the construction of robust, complex software artifacts. By focusing on the interaction between systems and higher-order typed programming languages, he analyzes the design and analysis of programming languages and compilers.
Prior to joining Northeastern, Shivers was a research scientist in the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he co-founded the Personal Information Architecture Group. He served as founder and chief technology officer of Smartleaf Corporation and taught in the College of Computing at Georgia Tech.
Shivers's research has been cited in Logistical Methods in Computer Science, Journal of Functional Programming, and Theoretical Computer Science, and has been funded by the NSF, Cisco, DARPA, and Microsoft.
