Laith Sakka

West Lafayette, IN. lsakka@fb.com

About me

Research Scientist at Facebook as of Feb 1.

Previously a PhD student in the ECE department at Purdue University.

My research focuses on compilation techniques and programming languages to enhance locality of tree traversing applications.

My talk in IFL 2020 about general deforestation of functional programs.

laith3_IFL.mp4

My talk in LLVM Developers meeting about utilizing Clang to implement DSL performance based source to source transformations.


PLDI 2020 paper presentation : Sound, Fine-Grained Traversal Fusion for Heterogeneous Trees.


Two papers accepted for PLDI 2019.

    • 1. L. Sakka, K. Sundararajah and. M Kulkarni “Sound, Fine-Grained Traversal Fusion for Heterogeneous Trees” in Programming Languages, Design and Implementation, PLDI 2019, Phoenix, USA. [To appear]

    • 2. M. Vollmer, C. Koparkar, M. Rainey, L. Sakka, M. Kulkarni, R. Newton “LoCal: A Language for Programs Operating on Serialized Data” in Programming Languages, Design and Implementation, PLDI 2019, Phoenix, USA. [To appear]