FP Lab at the University of Michigan designs next-generation user interfaces for modern programming languages. Our research runs the methodological gamut, ranging from type-theoretic foundations through to human-centered design. We are particularly interested in applications to computer science education, accessibility, computational and data science, formal verification, and computational creativity.

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Hazel

FP Lab is the academic home of Hazel, a live functional programming environment that is able to understand, manipulate, and even run incomplete programs, i.e. programs with holes.

• Go to hazel.org for more information, papers, and live demos of the many research projects housed within the Hazel research platform.

RustViz: Interactively Visualizing Ownership and Borrowing

We are also working on program visualization techniques for a powerful and elegant systems programming language called Rust.

• Read our VL/HCC 2022 paper on RustViz.

News

• FP Lab and friends will present our work at SPLASH 2023 this fall!

  • Yongwei Yuan (former undergraduate in FP Lab, now PhD student at Purdue) will present our paper Live Pattern Matching with Typed Holes at **********************OOPSLA 2023! This is joint work with Yongwei Yuan, Scott Guest, Eric Griffis, Hannah Potter, David Moon, and Cyrus Omar. Stay tuned for a preprint.

• FP Lab and friends presented our work at SPLASH 2022 in Auckland, New Zealand December!

  • Hannah Potter (former MS student in FP Lab, now PhD student at Washington) presented our paper *************************************************Contextualized Programming Language Documentation at the Onward! Papers track. (Joint work with Hannah Potter, Ardi Madadi, René Just, and Cyrus Omar)

• FP Lab presented two papers at VL/HCC 2022 in Rome in September!

  • Cyrus Omar presented our full paper *RustViz: Interactively Visualizing Ownership and Borrowing (*joint work with the all-undergraduate team (in alphabetical order) of Marcelo Almeida, Grant Cole, Ke Du, Gongming Luo, Shulin Pan, Yu Pan, Kai Qiu, Vishnu Reddy, Haochen Zhang, Yingying Zhu)
  • Andrew Blinn presented our short paper *An Integrative Human-Centered Architecture for Interactive Programming Assistants (*joint work with David Moon, Eric Griffis, and Cyrus Omar)

• FP Lab members presented work at ICFP 2022 in Ljubljana in September!

  • David Moon presented our full paper tylr: A Tiny Tile-Based Structure Editor at the TyDe workshop on Sunday! (joint work with Andrew Blinn and Cyrus Omar)

  🎉 Eric Zhao, Yanjun Chen, and Hilbert Chen were awarded 2nd place in the undergraduate category at the ICFP 2022 SRC for their work on Compiling Programs with Holes!

• FP Lab and friends presented work at SPLASH 2021 in Chicago in October!

  • David Moon presented his ongoing work on Restructuring Structure Editing at the LIVE workshop on Tuesday
  • Cyrus Omar presented our PLDI 2021 paper on Filling Typed Holes with Live GUIs at a SIGPLAN Papers session on Thursday at 2:35pm in Zurich F
  • Justin Lubin (Berkeley) presented our joint ICFP 2020 paper on Program Sketching with Live Bidirectional Evaluation at a SIGPLAN Papers session on Thursday at 11:20am in Zurich E
  • Andrew Blinn and Johnson He also attended SPLASH — Andrew gave many demos of the Hazel Assistant, and Johnson discussed his work on kinds with holes

• Fifteen(!) FP Lab members are moving on to great things this fall! [Aug 2021]

  🎉 Michael D. Adams will be starting as a tenure-track assistant professor at Yale-NUS!

  🎉 Hannah Potter will be starting a PhD program at the University of Washington!

  🎉 Siyuan He will be starting a PhD program at Purdue University!

  🎉 Yuning Wang will be starting a PhD program at Rutgers University!

  🎉 The following students are moving on to fantastic MS programs or industry positions!

  Anand Dukkipati, Cory Laban, Dibyadarshi Dash, Erin Deutschman, Kevin Chen, Marcelo Almeida, Mengjing Xu, Utkarsh Mehta, Vishnu Reddy, Yingying Zhu, Zhiyi Pan

• Yanjun Chen won 3rd place in the ICFP 2021 Student Research Competition (undergraduate category) for his work on developing An Interactive Stepper for Expressions with Holes! [Aug 2021]

• PLDI 2021 accepted our paper Filling Typed Holes with Live GUIs! [Jun 2021]

  → See hazel.org for the link and more details

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