Dimitris Vardoulakis
I am a Software Engineer at Google, working on
Closure Compiler.
Before joining Google, I was a PhD student at Northeastern
University.
I defended my thesis in June 2012.
For my PhD, I developed CFA2, a new flow analysis for functional
languages. CFA2 is the first flow analysis with unbounded
call/return matching in the presence of hard-to-analyze language
features, such as first-class functions, tail calls and first-class
control.
It provides precise dataflow information and is also suitable for
stack-related optimizations, such as stack-allocation of closure
environments.
Papers
In Defense of Soundiness: A Manifesto
Livshits, Sridharan, Smaragdakis, Lhotak, Amaral,
Chang, Guyer, Khedker, Moller, Vardoulakis
Communications of the ACM, Vol. 58, Feb 2015
[pdf]
CFA2: Pushdown Flow Analysis for Higher-Order Languages
Dimitrios Vardoulakis
Pushdown Flow Analysis of First-Class Control
Dimitrios Vardoulakis and Olin Shivers
CFA2: a Context-Free Approach to Control-Flow Analysis
Dimitrios Vardoulakis and Olin Shivers
Logical Methods in Computer Science, Vol. 7 (2:3), May 2011
[pdf]
[bib]
Ordering Multiple Continuations on the Stack
Dimitrios Vardoulakis and Olin Shivers
CFA2: a Context-Free Approach to Control-Flow Analysis
Dimitrios Vardoulakis and Olin Shivers
A compositional trace semantics for Orc
Dimitrios Vardoulakis and Mitchell Wand
A compositional trace semantics for Orc (short version)
Dimitrios Vardoulakis and Mitchell Wand
Our cultural heritage promotes helplessness about gifts, talents and
aptitudes. It encourages "I'm not good at this" instead of "How can I
make myself better at it?"
From Marvin Minsky's Turing Award lecture.
