PhD student @ UMich • Programming Language Researcher • Live Programming Advocate • Ex-Software Engineer

I’m a PhD student and programming language researcher at the Future of Programming Lab at the University of Michigan, focusing on Hazel, a live functional programming environment. My work is about making software more comprehensible, flexible, and extensible — empowering everyone, not just software experts.

Interests:

• Live & Structured Programming
• Programming Language Theory & HCI
• Malleable, user-extensible software systems

• Dimensions of Extensibility
• On Compositional Window Management
• Flatten the Program Lifecycle

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