Umut Acar

Assistant Professor Toyota Technological Institute University of Chicago Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon University E-mail: umut@tti-c.org E-mail: umut@cs.uchicago.edu Phone: (773) 702-5072

Research

• Selected Publications
• All Publications
• Interests: I am primarily interested in the design and implementation of programming languages and software systems. Currently, I focus on problems related to and inspired by self-adjusting computation. Ongoing projects include the design implementation of languages and compilers for self-adjusting computation and exploring its applications. More broadly I am interested in algorithms, computational biology, computational geometry, machine learning especially from the point of view of dynamic/interactive software systems that arise in these application domains.
• PL-group
• Current Students
  
  • Yan Chen (TTI-C)
    
  • Matthew Hammer (TTI-C)
    
  • Ruy Ley-Wild (Carnegie Mellon University)
    
  • Jamie Morgenstern (U of Chicago)
    
  • Ozgur Sumer (U of Chicago)
    
  • Duru Turkoglu (U of Chicago)
    
• My co-authors: Amal Ahmed, Guy Blelloch, Matthias Blume, Robert D. Blumofe, James Cheney, Jake Donham, Matthew Fluet, Anwar Ghuloum, Matthew Hammer, Robert Harper, Benoit Hudson, Suresh Jagannathan Alex Ihler, Ruy Ley-Wild, Ram Mettu, Gary Miller, Seda Ogrenci, Todd Phillips, Mohan Rajagopalan, Vincenzo Rana, Marco D. Santambrogio, Donatella Sciuto, Ozgur Sumer, Kanat Tangwongsan, Duru Turkoglu, Virginia Vassilevska, Jorge Vittes, Maverick Woo. Lukasz Ziarek
• Interns: Jake Donham, Benoit Hudson Ruy Ley-Wild, Kanat Tangwongsan, Virginia Vassilevska, Jorge Vittes.
• My advisers: Guy Blelloch and Robert Harper.
• My CV

My Calendar

Teaching

• Winter 2008: Type Systems for Programming Languages
• Fall 2006: Programming Languages (CMSC 321)
• Fall 2006: Programming Languages (CMSC 221)
• Fall 2005: Programming Languages (CMCS 321)