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

• All Publications
• Interests: I am 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.
• Projects
  
  • Self-Adjusting Computation
  • CEAL
  • Delta ML
  • Dynamic and Kinetic Computational Geometry
  • Provenance-Aware Languages
  • Statistical Inference
• Current Students
  
  • Yan Chen (TTI-C)
    
  • Matthew Hammer (TTI-C)
    
  • Ruy Ley-Wild (Carnegie Mellon University)
    
  • Ozgur Sumer (U of Chicago)
    
  • Duru Turkoglu (U of Chicago)
    
• My co-authors: Amal Ahmed, Guy Blelloch, Matthias Blume, Robert D. Blumofe, James Cheney, Andrew Cotter, Jake Donham, Matthew Fluet, Anwar Ghuloum, Matthew Hammer, Robert Harper, Benoit 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 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)