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James M. Decker

Graduate Research Assistant
PhD Advisor: Tiark Rompf
Purdue Programming Languages (PurPL)
Department of Computer Science
Purdue University

About Me

I am currently a graduate research assistant at Purdue University, studying under Professor Tiark Rompf. I am broadly interested in programming languages and compilers, with a specific interest in how programmers learn and use these languages.

My research is devoted to maximizing programmer efficiency through the use of multi-stage programming: providing low-level specialization benefits without needing to give up high-level expressive power. "Abstraction without regret!"

Currently, I am focusing on providing these benefits in the scope of machine learning applications and frameworks: see my recent publications for more info!

I'm also super excited to be joining the AutoGraph team as an intern starting January, 2019!

Selected Publications

2018 (Under Submission)	James M. Decker, Dan Moldovan, Guannan Wei, Vritant Bhardwaj, Gregory Essertel, Fei Wang, Alexander B. Wiltschko, Tiark Rompf	The 800 Pound Python in the Machine Learning Room
2018 (Under Submission)	Fei Wang, Daniel Zheng, James M. Decker, Xilun Wu, Gregory Essertel, Tiark Rompf	Demystifying Differentiable Programming: Shift/Reset the Penultimate Backpropagator
2018 (Under Submission)	Dan Moldovan, James M Decker, Fei Wang, Andrew A Johnson, Brian K Lee, Zachary Nado, D Sculley, Tiark Rompf, Alexander B Wiltschko	AutoGraph: Imperative-style Coding with Graph-based Performance
2018	Fei Wang, James Decker, Xilun Wi, Gregory Essertel, Tiark Rompf	Backpropagation with Callbacks: Foundations for Efficient and Expressive Differentiable Programming
2018	Gregory M. Essertel, Ruby Y. Tahboub, James M. Decker, Kevin J. Brown, Kunle Olukotun, Tiark Rompf	Flare: Optimizing Apache Spark with Native Compilation for Scale-Up Architectures and Medium-Size Data
2018	Guannan Wei, James Decker, Tiark Rompf	Refunctionalization of Abstract Abstract Machines

Teaching

Purdue University	CS 352 Undergraduate Compilers	Spring 2018	Graduate Teaching Assistant
Purdue University	CS 352 Undergraduate Compilers	Fall 2017	Graduate Teaching Assistant
Utah State University	CS 1400 Introduction to Computer Science -- CS 1	Spring 2015	Instructor
Utah State University	CS 2410 Introduction to Graphical User Interface Design in Java	Fall 2014	Instructor
Utah State University	CS 2412 Introduction to Graphical User Interface Design in C#	Fall 2014	Instructor
Utah State University	CS 2410 Introduction to Graphical User Interface Design in Java	Spring 2013	Instructor

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