Jens Palsberg
UCLA
Computer Science Department
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palsberg@ucla.edu Phone: 310-825-6320 Fax: 310-794-5057 |
Curriculum vitae
and
brief biography
Publications, DBLP, h-index = 49 UCLA compilers group |
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Research | Programming languages, software engineering, quantum computing | |||
Projects
  (former) |
NJR: A Normalized Java Resource
Reasoning about the Java memory model Quantum computing, as a member of CIQC (an NSF QLCI), as reported by UCLA |
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Tutorial | EMSOFT 2005 tutorial on Programming Sensor Networks by Mani B. Srivastava and Jens Palsberg | |||
Activities
  (former) |
Director,
Science Hub for Humanity and Artificial Intelligence
Member of the ACM Council Member of the ACM Athena Lecturer Award committee |
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Journals | TQC | Edit. Board | ACM Transactions on Quantum Computing | |
TC | Edit. Board | IEEE Transactions on Computers | ||
I&C | Edit. Board | Information and Computation | ||
SCP | Edit. Board | Science of Computer Programming | ||
Conferences
    2025 |
ASPLOS'25 | PC Member | ACM International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems | |
POPL'25 | PC Member | ACM Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages (Denver) | ||
CC'25 | PC Co-Chair | ACM International Conference on Compiler Construction (Las Vegas) | ||
PEPM'25 | PC Member | ACM International Workshop on Partial Evaluation and Program Manipulation (Denver) | ||
Conferences
    2024 |
VMCAI'24 | PC Member | International Conference on Verification, Model Checking, and Abstract Interpretation (London) | |
PLDI'24 | PC Member | ACM Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation (Copenhagen) | ||
Q-CASA'24 | PC Member | Quantum Computing Algorithms, Systems, and Applications workshop (San Francisco) | ||
WQS'24 | PC Member | Workshop on Quantum Software (Copenhagen) | ||
Conferences
    2023   (1994-2022) |
PEPM'23 | PC Co-Chair | ACM Conference on Partial Evaluation and Semantics-Based Program Manipulation (Boston) | |
QCE'23 | PC Member | IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering (Bellevue, Washington) | ||
Q-CASA'23 | PC Member | Quantum Computing Algorithms, Systems, and Applications workshop (St. Petersburg, Florida) | ||
SDD'23 | PC Member | International Workshop on Software Defect Datasets (San Francisco) | ||
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, for a course on compilers, 2001 Okawa Foundation Research Award, 2003. IBM Faculty Award, 2005. ACM Distinguished Speaker, 2006-2014. ACM SIGPLAN Distinguished Service Award, 2012. Eon Instrumentation Excellence in Teaching Award at UCLA for courses on quantum computing, 2023. JensFest 2024 | |||
Software | The Java Tree Builder, a frontend for The Java Compiler Compiler | |||
Ph.D. Students | Keli Huang   Zhuoyang (John) Ye | |||
Former Students |
Tian Zhao,
Ph.D. 2002, now an associate professor at University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
Dennis Brylow, Ph.D. 2003, now a professor at Marquette University, Milwaukee Mayur Naik, M.S. 2003, now a 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 at CMU. 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 Quandary Peak Research and at USC. Mohsen Lesani, Ph.D. 2014, now a professor at UC Riverside. Matt Brown, Ph.D. 2017, now at Intentionet; received the Outstanding Graduating Ph.D. Student award. John Bender, Ph.D. 2019, now at Sandia National Laboratories. Christian Kalhauge, Ph.D. 2020, now an associate professor at DTU, Denmark. Akshay Utture, Ph.D. 2023, now at Uber. Zeina Migeed, Ph.D. 2023, now at Meta. Shuyang Liu, PhD. 2024, now at Meta. |
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Courses at UCLA
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CS 132 Compiler Construction:
F03
 
F04
 
F05
 
F06
 
S08
 
S09
 
W10
 
F11
 
F12
 
F14
 
S16
 
F16
 
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F18
 
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F21
 
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S24
CS 238 Quantum Programming: S19   S20   W21   W22   F22   F23   F24 CS 238B Quantum Algorithms: S21   S22   W23   W24 |
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Worth Reading | The King 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. |