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, and computational creativity.

Projects

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.

News

• FP Lab will present two papers at VL/HCC (the Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centered Computing) in Rome in September! Preprints will be posted soon!

  • RustViz: Interactively Visualizing Ownership and Borrowing by 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, and Cyrus Omar.
  • An Integrative Human-Centered Architecture for Interactive Programming Assistants by Andrew Blinn, David Moon, Eric Griffis, and Cyrus Omar.

• FP Lab and friends attended SPLASH 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! [26 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 Student Research Competition (undergraduate category) for his work on developing An Interactive Stepper for Expressions with Holes! [25 Aug 2021]

• PLDI 2021 accepted our paper Filling Typed Holes with Live GUIs! [17 Jun 2021]

  → See hazel.org for the link and more details

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• FP Lab is part of the vibrant MPLSE (Michigan Programming Languages and Software Engineering) research community.
• We also frequently interact with researchers studying computer science education at Michigan, including Mark Guzdial.
• We maintain a Community page that lists some active mailing lists, forums, and other community resources that are relevant to the work that we do. FP Lab members are encouraged to get involved in the broader FP (future of programming and functional programming) community!

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