I am a Computer Science Ph.D. candidate at the Programming Research Laboratory, Northeastern University, advised by Professor Jan Vitek. I received a Bachelors degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology.
I am interested in addressing programming language ecosystem evolution through empirical evaluations and program analysis. I am designing a tool to migrate the R language ecosystem from lazy to strict semantics with minimal impact on legacy code. By delaying the evaluation of side-effecting and reflective arguments, R makes it difficult for users to reason about their programs. My research aims to introduce strictness to R functions:
- automatically: to scale to large codebases, and
- accurately: to prevent client code from breaking.
I live in Malden, Massachusetts. Feel free to contact me at aviral@aviral.io.