Umut Acar

Assistant Professor Toyota Technological Institute Assistant Professor (Part Time) University of Chicago	Contact Information: (773) 702-5072 umut@tti-c.org umut@cs.uchicago.edu 1427 E 60th Street Chicago IL 60637

Research

• Publications
• Interests: I primarily focus on problems related to self-adjusting computation. Current projects include language design and compilation techniques for self-adjusting computation, applications to dynamic algorithms, machine learning, scientific computing, and computational biology.
• PL-group
• Current Ph.D. Students
  
  • Matthew Hammer
    
  • Ozgur Sumer
    
  • Duru Turkoglu
    
• My co-authors: Amal Ahmed, Guy Blelloch, Matthias Blume, Robert D. Blumofe, James Cheney, Jake Donham, Anwar Ghuloum, Matthew Hammer, Robert Harper, Benoit Hudson, Alex Ihler, 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.
• Interns: Jake Donham, Benoit Hudson Ruy Ley-Wild, Kanat Tangwongsan, Virginia Vassilevska, Jorge Vittes.
• My advisers: Guy Blelloch and Robert Harper.
• My CV

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)