Jens Palsberg
Professor of Computer Science
PhD, MBA

UCLA Computer Science Department
University of California, Los Angeles
4531K Boelter Hall, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1596, USA
palsberg@ucla.edu
Phone: 310-825-6320
Fax: 310-794-5057
Curriculum vitae and brief biography
Publications, DBLP, h-index = 43
UCLA compilers group
Research Compilers, embedded systems, programming languages
Projects
  (former)
Certification of medical device software
Register allocation by puzzle solving
Compiling object-oriented programs to FPGAs
Optimization and verification of parallel programs
Tutorial EMSOFT 2005 tutorial on Programming Sensor Networks by Mani B. Srivastava and Jens Palsberg
Activities
  (former)
Member of the SIGPLAN CACM Nomination Committee
Journals I&C Edit. Board Information and Computation
Conferences
    2020
HOPL'20 PC Member The Fourth ACM SIGPLAN History of Programming Languages Conference
Conferences
    2018
  (1994-2017)
VMCAI'18

PC Co-chair

International Conference on Verification, Model Checking, and Abstract Interpretation (Los Angeles)
PLDI'18 PC Member ACM Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation (Philadelphia)
SALAD'18 PC Member Workshop on Software Debloating and Delayering (Amsterdam)
BenchWork'18 PC Member Workshop (Amsterdam)
Honors National Science Foundation CAREER Award, 1998.
Purdue University Faculty Scholar, 1999-2004, in recognition of outstanding academic distinction.
One of the Ten Best Teachers of Undergraduates in the School of Science, Purdue University, 2001.
Okawa Foundation Research Award, 2003.
IBM Faculty Award, 2005.
ACM Distinguished Speaker, 2006-2014.
ACM SIGPLAN Distinguished Service Award, 2012.
Software The Java Tree Builder, a frontend for The Java Compiler Compiler
Ph.D. Students John Bender   Christian Kalhauge   Zeina Migeed
Former Students Tian Zhao, Ph.D 2002, now an associate professor at University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
Dennis Brylow, Ph.D 2003, now an associate professor at Marquette University, Milwaukee
Mayur Naik, M.S. 2003, now an associate professor at U. Pennsylvania.
Ma, Di, Ph.D. 2004, now at Synopsys
Krishna Nandivada, Ph.D. 2005, now a professor at IIT, Madras.
Christian Grothoff, Ph.D. 2006, now a professor at Bern University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland.
Benjamin Titzer, Ph.D. 2007, now a researcher at Google.
Fernando Pereira, Ph.D. 2008, now a professor at Univ. Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG), Brazil.
Jonathan K. Lee, Ph.D. 2010, now at Google.
Mahdi Eslamimehr, Ph.D. 2014, now at Y Combinator Research.
Mohsen Lesani, Ph.D. 2014, now a professor at UC Riverside.
Matt Brown, Ph.D. 2017, now at a start-up. Received the Outstanding Graduating Ph.D. Student award.
Courses at UCLA
  (Purdue) 		CS 132 Compiler Construction: F03   F04   F05   F06   S08   S09   W10   F11   F12   F14   S16   F16   F17
CS 232 Static Program Analysis: S06   S07   S08   F08   F09   W18
CS 239 Parallel Programming Languages: F07   W09   S10   S11
CS 239 Programming Languages: W04
CS 239 Compilers for Embedded Systems: S04
Worth Reading The Queen of Denmark; so long, and thanks for the Ph.D; some advice on dissertations, talks, and how to have your abstract rejected; yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus; Angel, stylish Angel, cool Angel, plus Angel pondering some entries in CiteSeer. Angel. Hobbit dictionary for children.