Name:Saman Amarasinghe

Bio:

Saman Amarasinghe is the Thomas and Gerd Perkins Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT and leads the Commit compiler research group in MIT’s Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). Born in Sri Lanka and schooled at Royal College, Colombo, he is a graduate of Cornell University and earned his Master’s and PhD degrees from Stanford University. He was elected as an ACM Fellow in 2019.

Country:United States

Affiliation:Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Research interests:DSLs, Compilers, Programming Langauges, Performance Engineering