Umut A. Acar
Associate Professor
Computer Science Department
Carnegie Mellon University
Executive assistant: Matt McMonagle, mmcmonag@andrew.cmu.edu
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Research and Projects
My research is rooted in programming languages and branches into algorithms and software systems.
Recent Awards
2022: Intel Award
2021: JP Morgan Chase AI Award
2021: Distinguished paper award (POPL 2021)
2020: ACM SIGPLAN Research Highlight (PPOPP 2019)
2019: CMU Teaching Innovation Award (Diderot Project)
Books
Teaching
Research Group
Jatin Arora, PhD student
Mike Rainey, Research scientist.
Sam Westrick, PhD student
Mingkuan Xu, PhD student (jointly advised with Zhihao Jia)
Alumni
Yue Yao, M.S. 2020 (Now: PhD at CMU)
Yifan Qiao, Undergraduate 2019 (Now: PhD at UCLA)
Rohan Yadav B.S. 2019 (Now: PhD at Stanford)
Vijay Ramamurthy B.S. 2019 (Now: Facebook)
Stefan Muller Ph.D. 2018 (Now: Professor at IIT Chicago)
Adrien Guatto Post-doc 2016-17 (Now: Professor at IRIF-CNRS, Paris)
Ram Raghunathan M.A. 2017 (Now: Twitch)
Yan Chen Ph.D. 2017 (Now: Google --> Dfinity)
Filip Sieczkowski Post-doc: 2014-16 (Now: Professor at University of Wroclaw)
Pramod Bhatotia Ph.D. 2015 (Now: Professor at University of Edinburg)
Arthur Chargueraud Post-doc 2010-12 (Now: Researcher at INRIA)
Jana Dunfield Post-doc 2010-12 (Now: Queen’s University, Ontario)
Matthew Hammer Ph.D. 2012 (Now: Professor at UCB --> Dfinity)
Mike Rainey Post-doc 2010-12 (Now: Researcher at Inria --> Researcher at CMU)
Ozgur Sumer Ph.D. 2012. (Now: Google)
Duru Turkoglu Ph.D. 2012. (Now: Loyala University)
Ruy Ley-Wild Ph.D. 2010. (Now: LogicBlox)
Jamie Morgenstern B.S. 2009. (Now: PhD at CMU --> Professor at Georgia Tech --> Professor at University of Washington)