Amer Diwan
I am a faculty in the department of computer science at the University of Colorado, Boulder.
Courses
Advanced
Compiling Techniques (at Stanford)
CU CSCI 5535: Fundamentals of programming languages (Fall
1999, Fall 2000,
Fall 2001, Fall
2002, Fall 2007)
CU CSCI 7135: Topics in programming languages (Spring
2000, Spring 2003, Spring
2006, Fall 2008)
CU CSCI 3155: Principles of programming languages
(Spring 2001,
Spring 2002,
Fall 2003, Spring
2004, Fall 2004,
Spring 2008)
CU CSCI 3308: Software methods and tools (Fall 2005, Fall 2007, Fall 2008)
CU CSCI 7900: PhD student orientation (Fall 2005)
Prelims
For a syllabus of the programming languages prelim click here.
Research Interests and Publications
Click on a link to see my papers in the area. My (always outdated...) CV also enumerates my papers.
- Compiler analyses and optimizations
- Computer science education (click here for software)
- Memory management
- Memory system performance
- Power-aware computing
- Software engineering/visualization tools
Current Students
- Todd Mytkowicz (vertical profiling)
- Christoph Reichenbach (program metamorphosis)
- Devin Coughlin (program metamorphosis for Java)
- Dan Knights (using machine learning techniques to explain performance anomalies)
Graduated Students
- Johannes Henkel (Defended May 12th, 2004, dissertation, Summer 04: Postdoc at U. Colorado, Fall 04 and beyond: Google)
- Martin Hirzel (Defended July 6th, 2004, dissertation, IBM TJ Watson)
- Han Lee (Defended August 30th, 2004, dissertation, Fall 04: Postdoc at U. Colorado, December 04 and beyond: Intel)
- Matthias Hauswirth (Defended April 27th, 2005, dissertation, Faculty at Università della Svizzera Italiana (USI))
- Daniel von Dincklage (Defended November 16th, 2007, dissertation, Google))
Involvement in recent conferences and workshops
- Program Committee for OOPSLA 1997 and 2006, PLDI 2001 and 2003, SPACE 2004, PACT 2005, VEE 2007
- General chair for Second SUIF compiler workshop
- Co-organizer for the First Value-Prediction Workshop and Second Value-Prediction Workshop
- Program chair for ISMM 2004
- Program chair for PLDI 2009