Title
Samuel D. Conte Professor of Computer Science
Education
BS, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Computer Science (1982)
MS, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (1985)
PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (1989)
Research Areas
Programming Languages - Design, Implementation, and Analysis
Notable Awards
Purdue University Faculty Scholar [2007]
Purdue College of Science Graduate Student Mentoring Award [2012]
Secretary of Defense Medal for Outstanding Public Service [2016]
Purdue University Named Professor [2018]
Samuel D. Conte Professor of Computer Science
Publications
Matko Botincan, Mike Dodds, Suresh Jagannathan, "Resource-Sensitive Synchronization Inference by Abduction", ACM Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages (2012)
Lukasz Ziarek, KC Sivaramakrishnan, Suresh Jagannathan, "Composable Asynchronous Events", ACM Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation (2011)
Jaroslav Sevcik, Victor Vafeiadis, Francesco Zappa-Nardelli, Suresh Jagannathan, Peter Sewell, "Relaxed Memory Concurrency and Verifying Compilation", ACM Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages (2011)
Biography
Professor Jagannathan is interested in the semantics and implementation of high-level programming languages. His work focusses on formal methods for describing and implementing such languages, e.g., type theory, program analysis, abstract interpretation, etc., as well as compiler and runtime techniques that leverage such analyses.
He also has an active interest in the specification, verification, and implementation of concurrent and distributed systems. Much of this work involves exploring the role of verification techniques to enable sound program optimizations for concurrent programs. Certified compilation of expressive concurrent languages is another subject being actively pursued. An important sub-topic is the definition of expressive memory models that define visibility and consistency guarantees on shared data accesses. Lifting processor-defined memory consistency properties to inform compilation and language specification is an important focus area.
