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Intro
I am currently a second-year PhD student in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Penn State, advised by Dr. Gang Tan. I also obtained my M.S. in Computer Science and Engineering at Penn State. Before that, I did my Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics at Sun Yat-sen University.
I am interested in the powerful abstractions in programming languages that make programmers’ life easier. I did my Master’s thesis on a formal grammar that can describe parsers for file formats. Now I am looking into exploiting the concept of isolation/sandboxes at a language level.
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Publication
- Jialun Zhang, Greg Morrisett, Gang Tan. Interval Parsing Grammars for File Format Parsing. In 44th ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI). code
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Teaching Experience
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Teaching Assistant for CSE 522: Program Analysis, Spring 2023
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Teaching Assistant for CMPSC 461: Programming Language Concepts, Spring 2021
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