Group Members

We are:

• Eric Van Wyk, Professor
• Lucas Kramer, Ph.D. student
• Dawn Michaelson, Ph.D. student
• Travis Carlson, Ph.D. student
• Allie Hanson, Ph.D. student
• Luke Bessant, Ph.D. student
• Nathan Ringo, M.S. student
• Ian Kariniemi, M.S. student
• Louis Goessling, undergraduate student
• Kelton Obrien, undergraduate student

Ph.D. graduates:

• Ted Kaminski, Ph.D., May 2017. Amazon
  • “Reliably composable language extensions”
• Lijesh Krishnan, Ph.D., November, 2012. Coverity
  • “Extensible Languages via Modular Declarative Specifications”
• August Schwerdfeger, Ph.D., July, 2010. Galois
  • “Context-Aware Scanning and Determinism-Preserving Grammar Composition”

M.S. graduates:

• Patrick Stephen, M.S., 2017
• Vince Alm, M.S.
• Kevin Williams, M.S., 2014. Microsoft, X++ Programming Language group
• Ming Zhou, M.S., 2013. Microsoft, Visual Studio group
• Praveen Kambam Sugavanam, M.S., 2013. Amazon
• Mark Leverntz, M.S., 2008
• Yogesh Mali, M.S., 2008
• Derek Bodin, M.S., 2008
• Mark Benson, M.S., 2007
• Paul Johnson, M.S., 2007
• Jing Yang, M.S., 2002

B.S. graduates:

• Aaron Councilman, B.S. 2021, now in the University of Illinois Ph.D. program
• Joseph Blanchard, B.S. 2021
• Violent Chang, B.S., 2020, now in Ph.D. program at Maryland
• Gordon Chen, B.S., 2020, now in M.S. program at UMass
• Charlie Hofer, undergraduate student
• Kevin Viratyosin, B.S., 2018, Facebook

We share many interests with our colleagues in the department and thus work closely with them. These include:

• Mats Heimdahl and members of his Crisys group.
• Gopalan Nadathur and his students.