POPL 2017
Sun 15 - Sat 21 January 2017
David Walker

Registered user since Fri 5 Feb 2016

Name:David Walker
Bio:

David Walker joined the Princeton CS department in 2002, was granted tenure in 2008 and was appointed a full professor in 2013. He received his doctoral and master’s degrees in computer science from Cornell, and his bachelor’s from Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario. During sabbaticals from Princeton, he has served as a visiting researcher at Microsoft Research in Redmond (2008) and in Cambridge (2009), and as Associate Visiting Faculty at the University of Pennsylvania (2015-2016). Professor Walker studies programming language theory, design and implementation, with an emphasis on the design of domain-specific languages. His awards include an NSF Career Award, a Sloan Fellowship and the 2015 ACM SIGPLAN Robin Milner Young Researcher Award. Together with his collaborators, he has also won a 10-year retrospective award for the most influential paper at ACM POPL 1998, a best paper award at ACM PLDI 2007, and a Community Award for his work at USENIX NSDI 2013. He served as an associate editor for ACM TOPLAS from 2007-2015 and as program chair for ACM POPL in 2015.

Country:United States
Affiliation:Princeton University

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