Name:Aleksandar Prokopec

Bio:

I am a senior research manager at Oracle Labs, working on the GraalVM project. My research is focused on virtual machines, programming languages, JIT compilation, and compiler optimizations, as well as programming language abstractions for concurrent and distributed computing.

Previously, I worked at Google on cloud computing infrastructure and big data analytics for Google Maps. Before that, I was working as a research assistant in the School of Computer and Communication Sciences at the EPFL in Switzerland, in the LAMP laboratory on Scala development under the supervision of dr. Martin Odersky, where I received a doctoral degree in 2014.

Country:Switzerland

Affiliation:Oracle Labs

Research interests:Virtual machines, compilers, programming languages, parallel programming, concurrent data structures.