Mark van den Brand is a full professor of Software Engineering and Technology at the Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science. Furthermore he is scientific director of the research laboratory LaQuSo. His current research activities are on generic language technology, source code analysis, and model driven engineering. He was one of the architects of the ASF+SDF Meta-Environment, an integrated development environment for writing (programming) language specifications. ASF+SDF is used in the fields of language prototyping and reverse engineering.
Peter Dickman is an Engineering Manager at Google Switzerland.
Roland Ducournau is Professor of Computer Science at the University of Montpellier. In the late 80s, while with Sema Group, he designed and developed the YAFOOL language, based on frames and prototypes and dedicated to knowledge based systems. His research topics focuses on class specialization and inheritance, especially multiple inheritance. His recent works are dedicated to implementation of OO languages.
M. Anton Ertl is an associate professor at the Programming Languages and Compilers group of the TU Wien. His research interest is in programming language implementation, in particular in often-overlooked qualities like simplicity and portability. In particular, his work has focussed on code generation techniques and on efficient interpreters.
Remi Forax is a researcher at University of Marne-la-Vallée.
Björn Franke is a lecturer in the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland.
Andreas Gal is a project scientist at the University of California, Irvine. He is currently on leave from UC Irvine, working with Mozilla Corporation on a trace-based just-in-time compiler for JavaScript, which will soon power the web browser of choice of over 200 million users world-wide.
Andreas received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Irvine, in 2006 for his work on trace-based dynamic compilation. He holds a BSc. from the University of Wisconsin and a MSc. from the University of Magdeburg, Germany.
Andreas' main research interests are virtual machines, ranging from language-based virtual machines and dynamic compilation to virtual machines for processor emulation and security. Andreas has co-authored more than 50 peer-reviewed conference and workshop papers and journal articles, participates in academic peer review of articles and research grants, and has co-organized several workshops.
Kevin Hammond is a Professor in Computer Science, in the School of Computer Science, at the University of St. Andrews, St. Andrews, Scotland, where he leads the Functional Programming research group.
Tim Harris is a researcher at Microsoft Research Cambridge (UK) where he works with the Cambridge Systems & Networking Group, the Programming Principles and Tools Group, and the BSCM-icrosoft Joint Research Centre. His main research interests are in the design and implementation of programming languages and managed runtime environments to support multi-threaded and multi-processor software.
Michael Haupt works at Oracle Labs, Potsdam, Germany. His research interests are in improving the modularity of complex software system architectures as well as in implementing programming languages, in which latter area his main focus is on faithfully regarding programming paradigms' core mechanisms as primary subjects of language implementation effort. Michael holds a doctoral degree from Technische Universität Darmstadt, where he has worked on the Steamloom virtual machine to provide run-time support for AOP languages. He has published research papers in several journals and conference series. Michael has served as PC member for ECOOP, and has co-organized the Dynamic Aspects Workshop series and one ACP4IS workshop in conjunction with the AOSD conferences, and the three editions of the VMIL workshop affiliated with OOPSLA/SPLASH. Michael is a member of the ACM.
Eric Jul is Professor of Computer Science at the University of Copenhagen and head of the Distributed Systems Group. He is one of the principal designers of the distributed, object-oriented language Emerald. He implemented fine-grained object mobility in Emerald. His current research is in Grid Computing. He is currently President of AITO.
Tomas Kalibera is a Research Associate at the University Kent presently focusing on automatic memory management for multicore systems.
Stein Krogdahl is a Professor in the Department of Informatics at the University of Oslo, Norway.
Francis Chi Moon Lau is a professor of computer science at the University of Hong Kong where he leads the Systems Research Group. An area of particular research interest is in the design, implementation and optimization of distributed virtual machines. He also works on garbage collection along the direction of discovering and exploiting properties of objects to speed up garbage collection.
Ian Rogers was a Research Fellow in the University of Manchester's Advanced Processor Technology research group. His PhD research work into the Dynamite binary translator was exploited commercially and now forms part of many binary translator products, including Apple's Rosetta. His more recent research work has been in to programming language design, runtime and virtual machine environments - in particular how to allow them to automatically create and efficiently exploit parallelism. At Azul Systems, Ian worked on virtual machine design for commodity servers to systems with close to 1,000 cores and terabytes of RAM. Ian now works on the design of systems software for the Android mobile phone.
Ian organized and chaired the ICOOOLPS workshop at ECOOP 2009.
Jennifer is a post-doctoral researcher at Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne. She received her PhD from The University of Texas at Austin in August 2010 working in the memory subsystem in the Java virtual machine. She performed research in the dynamic optimization system and in the garbage collector to optimize memory efficiency for managed languages. Now working at EPFL, she moved into an architecture group. She is interested in software-hardware co-optimization and design, particularly in the memory system, which is growing increasingly important with today's complex software and multi-core machines.
Manuel Serrano is a researcher at Inria Sophia-Antipolis.
Mario Wolczko is a Research Director and Distinguished Principal Engineer in Oracle Laboratories.
Olivier Zendra is a full-time permanent computer science researcher at INRIA / LORIA, in Nancy, France. His research topics cover compilation, optimization and automatic memory management. He worked on the compilation and optimization of object-oriented languages and was one of the two people who created and implemented SmartEiffel, the GNU Eiffel Compiler (at the time SmallEiffel). His current research application domains are compilation, memory management and embedded systems, with a specific focus on low energy.
Olivier organized and chaired the inaugural ICOOOLPS workshop at ECOOP 2006. He organized ICOOOLPS 2007 and 2008, chairing ICOOOLPS 2007.