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.
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]