Blogs:

• My public blog
• My LAMP blog
• Burak
• Gilles
• Phil Wadler
• Manageability.org

Links:

• GData Scala client
• Radu Jurca
• map.search.ch
• tel.search.ch

I am currently a PhD student in Laboratory of Programming Methods (LAMP), under the supervision of Martin Odersky. My research topic is high-level compiler optimizations, my focus being to improve the performance of our Scala compiler.

Research

• Compiling Generics Through User-Directed Type Specialization, in Fourth ECOOP Workshop on Implementation, Compilation, Optimization of Object-Oriented Languages, Programs and Systems (ICOOOLPS'2009), 2009 (accepted)
• Optimizing Higher-Order Functions in Scala, in Third ECOOP Workshop on Implementation, Compilation, Optimization of Object-Oriented Languages, Programs and Systems (ICOOOLPS'2008), 2008
• Continuations in the Java Virtual Machine, in Second ECOOP Workshop on Implementation, Compilation, Optimization of Object-Oriented Languages, Programs and Systems (ICOOOLPS'2007), 2007
• My research proposal where I shortly describe my goals.
• Report of my implementation of Whole Program Optimizations for Scala. (also the ppt).

Talks

• JVM Languages Summit (sept. 2008): video and slides.

Teaching

Courses I assist this year:

• Foundations of Software (winter 2008-2009)

Past courses I assisted:

• Advanced Compiler Techniques (summer 2007)
• Type Systems (winter 2006-2007)
• Advanced Compiler Techniques (summer 2006)
• Compilation (winter 2005-2006)
• Advanced Compiler Techniques (summer 2004-2005)
• Compilation (winter 2004-2005)

Projects

Here I'll post some pet projects which I did in my spare time. Don't expect too much :-)

xml-test

An XML diff tool that checks two documents for similarity. Element order does not matter, comments and whitespace are skipped, certain elements can be ignored. It can be used both as a command line tool and as a library (for instance, to run during unit tests).

NextBus

A small J2ME (Java micro edition) application which can tell you the next time a bus/metro arrives at the chosen station, given the current time (it handles weekends and soon the holiday schedule too!). I'll post the link to download after I clean the build files so that anyone can make his own schedule (in fact, it should be general enough that it accomodates any public transportation system, not just Lausanne).

<.jar file>  <.jad file> [stay tuned for SDK download and configuration guide]

Hobbies

I enjoy outdoors sports a lot, mainly rock climbing and hiking. You can check some pictures from our latest hikes:

• Latest trips moved to Picasa