Arjun Guha

New Coordinates

• http://ccs.neu.edu/~arjunguha
• a.guha@northeastern.edu

About

Using the tools and techniques of programming languages, my research addresses security and reliability problems in web programming, systems, and robotics.

Recent News

• Received an NSF Award for research on language-based appproaches to serverless computing (June 2020).
• Received an NSF Award for research on programming languages for robotics, with Joydeep Biswas (June 2020).
• Received an NSF Award for research on network updates, with Jed McClurg (June 2020).
• Received a Facebook Systems for Machine Learning Award, with Marco Serafini (January 2020).
• Making High-Performance Robots Safe and Easy to Use for an Introduction to Computing will appear at EAAI 2020 (November 2019).
• Draft paper on A Language-based Serverless Function Accelerator (November 2019)
• Formal Foundations of Serverless Computing receives a SIGPLAN Distinguished Paper Award (October 2019).
• Flapjax: A Programming Language for Ajax Applications receives the Most Influential Paper of OOPSLA 2009 Award (October 2019),
• Draft paper on Automatic Failure Recovery for End-User Programs on Service Mobile Robots (September 2019).
• Draft paper on Model-Based Warp-Level Tiling for Image Processing Programs on GPUs (September 2019).
• Ran a week-long programming workshop for high school students, teaching JavaScript and robotics (July 2019).
• Not So Fast: Analyzing the Performance of WebAssembly vs Native Code appeared at USENIX ATC (June 2019).

Research Group

I work with a great group of students:

• Abhinav Jangda (PhD)
• Emily Herbert (PhD)
• Donald Pinckney (PhD)
• Joseph Spitzer (PhD)
• Jenna Hammond (Mount Holyoke College, undergrad)
• Sam Lee (undergrad)
• Christopher Rybicki (undergrad)

We are part of the PLASMA and LASER, which includes several other students and faculty.

I am also part of the Frenetic and JSWebTools projects.

Prospective Students

I am always looking for students (both graduate and undergraduate) who are interested in programming languages research. I encourage you to read some of my papers and see what I like to teach. If you find any of this exciting, do get in touch.

Alumni

• Samuel Baxter (MS)
• Rian Shambaugh (MS)
• Rachit Nigam (undergrad → PhD student at Cornell)
• Nicole Andrews (undergrad)
• Harsh Poddar (undergrad → Facebook)
• Aaron Weiss (undergrad, NSF Fellow → PhD student at Northeastern)
• Jane Tangen (undergrad)
• Akshay Gadre (undergrad → PhD student at Carnegie Mellon)
• Nimish Gupta (MS → Amazon)

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