Umut A. Acar

Assistant Professor Toyota Technological Institute Assistant Professor (Part Time) 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

• 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, Matthew Fluet, Anwar Ghuloum, Matthew Hammer, Robert Harper, Benoit Hudson, 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.
• 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)