TU Delft Programming Languages Group
In the programming languages research program, we aim at improving the effectiveness and reliability of programming languages and systems. Effectiveness such that programmers can express intent at the right level of abstraction and get actionable feedback that is relevant and timely. Reliability such that programmers can trust the execution and analysis of programs. Find us on Mastodon!
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In our teaching we emphasize the study of the fundamental concepts of programming languages that prepare students for (contributing to the design and implementation of) the programming languages and systems of the future. Our course topics include algorithms and data-structures, compiler construction, semantics, type systems, static and dynamic analysis, software verification, model checking, and language engineering.
Programming and Validating Software Restructurings
Jasper Denkers successfully defended his dissertation Domain-Specific Languages for Digital Printing Systems and was awarded the degree of doctor.
From February 2024, Sára Juhošová has joined our group as a PhD student to work on usability and accessibility of interactive theorem provers. Welcome!
Danny Groenewegen successfully defended his dissertation WebDSL: Linguistic Abstractions for Web Programming and was awarded the degree of doctor.
On 8 September 2023, Jeff Smits successfully defended his dissertation Strategic Language Workbench Improvements and was awarded the degree of doctor.
The Eelco Visser Commemorative Symposium was held on 5 April 2023: the first anniversary of Eelco’s untimely passing. It brought together more than 130 colleagues from various communities, with presentations of papers on topics related to Eelco’s research and his other academic activities. The proceedings were published online as volume 109 in the Dagstuhl Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs).
Since the start of 2023, Layne Liu has joined our group as a PhD student on the NWO MasCot project on Programming and Validating Software Restructurings. Welcome to the group!
Our dear colleague and friend Eelco Visser passed away on Tuesday 5 April 2022. Eelco was professor and head of the Programming Languages Group (faculty EWI) at TU Delft and an expert in the field of programming language design. He was a highly valued member of the management team of the Software Technology department. Eelco was tenacious, well-informed, and always driven by content. A researcher in heart and soul, who will be greatly missed.
Arjen Rouvoet successfully defended his dissertation Correct by Construction Language Implementations and was awarded the degree of doctor with distinction.
This year we have extended the PL group with many new PhD students. Welcome to Bohdan Liesnikov, Alex Chichigin, Lucas Escot, Aron Zwaan, Luka Miljak, Dennis Sprokholt, and Jaro Reinders. We still have open positions for two PhD students at the moment.
We are delighted that Benedikt Ahrens will join TU Delft Programming Languages group as assistant professor starting September 1, 2021.
We are delighted that Soham Chakraborty will join TU Delft Programming Languages group as assistant professor starting March 1, 2021.
Congratulations to Jesper Cockx for his NWO Veni grant for A Trustworthy and Extensible Core Language for Agda.
NWO has granted our proposal to the MasCot call to work on Programming and Validating Software Restructurings. We will be hiring two PhD students in Delft and one in Eindhoven. PI on the proposal is Eelco Visser. Co-applicants are Casper Bach Poulsen (TU Delft), Jan Friso Groote (TU Eindhoven), and Jeroen Keiren (TU Eindhoven).
Maarten Sijm wins the ACM Student Research Competition at SPLASH 2019 for his work on Incremental Scannerless Generalized LR Parsing.
We are delighted that Jesper Cockx will join TU Delft Programming Languages group as assistant professor starting December 1, 2019.
Jasper Denkers wins best paper and best presentation award at ESEC/FSE 2019 Doctoral Symposium for his paper on “A Longitudinal Field Study on Creation and Use of Domain-Specific Languages in Industry” based on work with/at Océ.
The PL group has an open position for a PhD student in the area of language engineering.
The PL group has an opening for an assistant or associate professor in programming languages (applications are due September 1, 2019)
Congratulations to Casper Bach Poulsen for his NWO Veni grant for Composable and Safe-by-Construction Programming Language Definitions.
Eduardo Amorim successfully defended his dissertation Declarative Syntax Definition for Modern Language Workbenches and was awarded the degree of doctor.
The paper “Scopes and Frames Improve Meta-Interpreter Specialization” by Vlad Vergu, Andrew Tolmach, and Eelco Visser has been accepted at ECOOP 2019.
Oracle donates $100K to support research on Flexible, Composable, and Incremental Compiler Pipelines
Congratulations to Sebastian Erdweg with his new position as Associate Professor at the Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz.
The paper “Towards Language-Parametric Semantic Editor Services based on Declarative Type System Specifications” by Daniël Pelsmaeker, Hendrik van Antwerpen, and Eelco Visser has been accepted at ECOOP 2019.
Daco Harkes successfully defended his PhD thesis Declarative Specification of Information System Data Models and Business Logic and was awarded the degree of doctor.
Principles of Educational Programming Language Design
By Michael Kölling in Informatics in Education
Moderator: Jaro Reinders