Stefan Muller

Stefan K. Muller

Gladwin Development Chair Assistant Professor

Stuart Building 218E
Computer Science Department
Illinois Institute of Technology
10 W 31st Street
Chicago, IL

I'm an assistant professor in the Computer Science Department at Illinois Institute of Technology. My research broadly aims to use programming language techniques to make it easier to write correct and efficient software in many application domains, especially parallel computing. While the techniques I use to solve these problems are primarily drawn from PL, my interests have touched on algorithm design and computer systems as well. My interest in application domains spans from AI to computer science education.

Interests:

Language and type system design
Static resource analysis
Parallel computing

Before Illinois Tech:

Postdoc Carnegie Mellon University 2018-20
Advisor: Jan Hoffmann
PhD Carnegie Mellon University 2018
Advisor: Umut A. Acar
AB Harvard University 2012
Advisor: Stephen Chong

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Research

Responsive Parallelism
Extend elegant models of parallel software to account for important features of interactive programs such as responsiveness and priority.

Resource-aware GPU Programming
Develop tools and analyses to help programmers write more robust, efficient General-Purpose GPU programs.

Current and Former Students

Xiangwei (Shawn) Li (MS)
Deepika Padmanabhan (MCS) - Now at Amazon
My Dinh (BS)
Mark Lou (BS)
Aman Luqman (BS)
Francis Rinaldi (BS)

Publications

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Recent publications:

Teaching

At Illinois Tech

Fall 2021: CS 595. Topics and Applications in Programming Languages
Spring 2021: CS 440. Programming Languages and Translators

At Carnegie Mellon

Summer 2018: 15-150. Principles of Functional Programming.

Personal

Hobbies

Running (still learning routes around Chicago, tell me if you have any favorites!)
Homebrewing beer
Singing

Fun Facts

My Bacon number is lower than my Erdős number:
Erdős: 4, through Guy Blelloch, Gary Miller and Daniel J. Kleitman, or alternately through Bob Harper, Joseph Yehuda Halpern and Nathan Linial.
Bacon: 2, through Tom Hanks (I was an extra in A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood).

Languages

Human: English (native), Spanish (intermediate)

Programming: OCaml/Standard ML (fluent), Java (intermediate), Python (for prototypes), HTML/JS (when my website needs a redesign), Bash (working knowledge, except of how to write a for loop, which I need to google every single time), Haskell (beginner), C/C++ (if I really have to)