PurPL is the cross-departmental umbrella group for programming languages research at Purdue University. PurPL research groups push the boundaries of every area in programming languages, software engineering, formal methods, and systems: PL theory, design, and implementation, language-based security, compiler optimizations, verification, program synthesis, and more. But we do more than fundamental research: we bring PL ideas to bear on a wide range of areas, including big data, security, education, and computational science.
News 
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Congratulations to Anmol, Suresh, and their co-authors on their upcoming OOPSLA’24 paper on verifying concurrent data structures!
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Adhitha’s paper on generating optimal schedules for sparse tensor computations has been accepted to OOPSLA ‘24. Congratulations to all the authors!
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Durga’s paper on GPU ray tracing acceleration for nearest neighbor won best paper at ICS! Congrats Durga!
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Congrats to Guannan, Danning, Yongwei and their co-authors on their upcoming PLDI paper on making smart contracts safer by integrating behavioral contracts into Solidity!
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Congrats to Zhe and Qianchuan on their upcoming PLDI paper on HATS– a new technique for automatically reasoning about clients of effectful data structure libraries using a combination automata and refinement types.
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Congrats to Julia (Belyakova) on her upcoming PLDI paper on subtyping in Julia (the language)!
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Durga, Vani, and Artem’s paper on implementing k-nearest neighbor search using ray tracing will appear at ICS’24! Congrats to all the authors!
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Ashish has joined the faculty at IIT Hyderabad. Congratulations Ashish!
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