Checkmate50
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3 years ago Thanks Liam for reaching out! I'll get in touch with you over email
Closed miahdan closed 2 years ago
Checkmate50
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3 years ago Thanks Liam for reaching out! I'll get in touch with you over email
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Personal Details
Name: Liam Daniels
Major: Computer Science
Year in Cornell & Expected graduation date: Junior, graduating in 2023
Relevant classes: CS 3110, CS 3410, CS 4110 (currently taking)
Interested in continuing research during the summer? Yes!
Expertise (languages/frameworks/etc.): OCaml, C, Python, Java, git, unix
Research
When do you want to do research? I'd like to get involved in the spring, and also the summer if all goes well.
What is exciting to you about research? I enjoy reasoning about programming and programming languages, especially about their readability and aesthetics. So, I would love to get some hands-on experience in PL and learn more about it. I also want to get to know and work with people who are invested in the field. More generally, the idea of thinking about and building projects for novel, open-ended problems seems appealing and fun to me, and I have heard that this is what CS research is like. I also definitely do want to "make" something using programming, if possible.
What kind of research do you want to do? I'd say my interests are currently pretty broad and focused on "PL" in general. I think I'd really enjoy and learn from working on a domain-specific programming language. I am open to exploring anything, though!
Background
Was there a paper that particularly excited you? I looked through some Capra papers, and I quite enjoyed the abridged version of Programming Language Support for Natural Language Interaction. I don't know much about natural language stuff, but I was sort of awestruck that a DSL could be made for something as abstract and ambiguous as NLU. The "hypothetical worlds" feature seems like a really cool idea with a wonderful name. I just love seeing programming languages applied in sort-of unexpected ways, and reading this paper makes me feel inspired to make or work on a DSL.
Which of the current research projects would you be interested in working on and why? I talked to Dietrich Geisler at research night a couple of days ago, and I took interest in the Caiman project. I don't know much about multi-device binding, but I do find systems-y stuff pretty intriguing when programming is also involved. I also think that graphics is an awesome application of programming languages in general.
Anything else you want to tell us about yourself? I'm planning on taking Compilers next semester, so hopefully I'll have a bit more experience then.
Attach a CV/Resumé Liam_D_resume.pdf