Arjun Guha

About

Using the tools and techniques of programming languages, my research addresses security and reliability problems in web programming, systems, and robotics.

Recent News

• TypeWhich receives a Distinguished Artifact Award at OOPSLA 2021 (October 2021).
• IDIPS will appear at IROS 2021 (July 2021).
• IDIPS talk at RSS Workshop on Social Navigation (July 2021).
• Draft paper: A Language-based Serverless Function Accelerator (April 2021)
• Accelerating Graph Sampling for Graph Machine Learning using GPUs will appear at EuroSys 2021 (March 2021).
• Robot Action Selection Learning via Layered Dimension Informed Program Synthesis will appear at CoRL 2020 (October 2020).
• Model-Based Warp Overlapped Tiling for Image Processing Programs on GPUs receives the Best Paper Award at PACT 2020 (October 2020).
• TacTok: Semantics-Aware Proof Synthesis will appear at OOPSLA 2020 (October 2020).
• Wasm/k: Delimited Continuations for WebAssembly will appear at DLS 2020 (September 2020).
• Joined Northeastern University (August 2020).
• Received an NSF Award for research on language-based appproaches to serverless computing (June 2020).
• Received an NSF Award for research on programming languages for robotics, with Joydeep Biswas (June 2020).
• Received an NSF Award for research on network updates, with Jed McClurg (June 2020).
• Received a Facebook Systems for Machine Learning Award, with Marco Serafini (January 2020).

Research Group

I am a member of the Programming Research Laboratory at Northeastern. I work with a great group of students:

• Luna Phipps-Costin (undergrad)
• Abhinav Jangda (PhD)
• Emily Herbert (PhD)
• Donald Pinckney (PhD)

Prospective Students

I am always looking for students (both graduate and undergraduate) who are interested in programming languages research. I encourage you to read some of my papers and see what I like to teach. If you find any of this exciting, do get in touch.

Alumni

• Samuel Baxter (MS)
• Rian Shambaugh (MS)
• Sam Lee (undergrad)
• Christopher Rybicki (undergrad → MS student at Cornell Tech)
• Rachit Nigam (undergrad → PhD student at Cornell)
• Nicole Andrews (Mount Holyoke College, undergrad)
• Jenna Hammond (Mount Holyoke College, undergrad, CRA honorable mention)
• Harsh Poddar (undergrad → Facebook)
• Aaron Weiss (undergrad, NSF Fellow → PhD student at Northeastern)
• Jane Tangen (undergrad → MITRE)
• Akshay Gadre (undergrad → PhD student at Carnegie Mellon)
• Nimish Gupta (MS → Amazon)

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