Faculty - Dr. Umut Acar
PhD - Carnegie Mellon University
Assistant Professor
Born in Istanbul, Turkey, Umut Acar received his B.S. in Computer Science from Bilkent University-Turkey in 1997, his M.A. from University of Texas at Austin in 1999, and his Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University in 2004.
Acar's research interests are in the areas of programming languages and algorithms, and include both theory and practice. For his thesis, Acar developed algorithmic and language techniques for self-adjusting computation where computations automatically adjust their internal state and output to changes in their environment. He also worked on multithreaded computations, computational geometry, and extending the GHC Haskell compiler with polymorphic records. In the future, he plans to develop compiler support for self-adjusting computation, broaden its applications, and develop analysis techniques for determining its performance and limitations.
Dr. Acar also has a personally maintained website which can be found at http://www.tti-c.org/acar