I am an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at UTA. Previously, I was a post-doctoral researcher at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center in Hawthorne, NY. I received my Ph.D. in Computer Science from Cornell University in January 2007. My main research interests are programming languages, compilers, and concurrent systems.
Teaching
- CSE 1310: Introduction to Computers and Programming, Fall 2009
Research projects
Opportunities: I am looking to recruit talented Ph.D., M.S. and undergraduate students to work with me on research. If you're interested in programming languages, compilers, or software engineering, please email me to arrange a chat.
- Thorn, an extensible, distributed scripting language
- X10, a concurrent object-oriented programming language
- Funicular, a shared-memory concurrency library for Scala
- Polyglot, an extensible Java compiler framework
- Jx/J&, languages for extensible, composable software frameworks
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Recent publications
- Constrained Kinds, Nathaniel Nystrom, Olivier Tardieu, Igor Peshansky, and Vijay Saraswat, Submitted, July 2009.
- Thorn — Robust, Concurrent, Extensible Scripting on the JVM, Tobias Wrigstad, Johan Östlund, Gregor Richards, Jan Vitek, Bard Bloom, John Field, Nathaniel Nystrom, and Rok Strniša, In OOPSLA 2009 (Orlando, FL, October 2009).
- Software Hardening — A Research Agenda, Tobias Wrigstad, Patrick Eugster, John Field, Nathaniel Nystrom, and Jan Vitek, In First International Workshop on Script to Program Evolution (STOP) (Genova, Italy, July 2009).
- Constrained Types for Object-Oriented Languages, Nathaniel Nystrom, Vijay Saraswat, Jens Palsberg, Christian Grothoff, In OOPSLA 2008 (Nashville, TN, October 2008).
- Matchete: Paths through the Pattern Matching Jungle, Martin Hirzel, Nathaniel Nystrom, Bard Bloom, and Jan Vitek. In Practical Aspects of Declarative Languages (PADL), LNCS 4902, pp. 150-166, January 2008.
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Professional activities
- Program committee member, TOOLS EUROPE 2010, Málaga, Spain
- Co-organizer, program committee member, STOP 2009, Genova, Italy
- Program committee member, ECOOP 2009, Genova, Italy
- Program committee member, ECOOP 2008, Paphos, Cyprus