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Alec Heller
I'm a Ph.D student in my third year in the
Programming Languages Research Lab at
Northeastern, with
Riccardo Pucella. I started my undergraduate career as a Jazz Piano major at
Oberlin College, and ended up a Computer Scientist instead. Now, lacking a piano, I find myself playing more guitar and bass, as they fit in my apartment.
Research
Recently, I have been working on a simplified type system for Session Types. I'm generally interested in different ways of expressing static properties of programs both to humans and other programs, such as type systems, algebraic specifications, and anything else I can come up with.
Software
Over the summer of 2007,
Jesse Tov and I developed
Caml Shcaml, a library for orchestrating UNIX shell tasks in
OCaml for the
OCaml Summer Project sponsored by
Jane Street Capital.
Teaching
This semester, I'm teaching CSU101,
Computer Science and its Applications. The course page for my section may be found
here. I have TA'd the following courses:
Contact
Alec Heller
College of Computer and Information Science
Northeastern University
360 Huntington Ave, #202 WVH
Boston, MA 02115
Email:
(@ alec (ccs neu edu))
Phone: 617-373-3926
Office: 308 WVH
