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D-Index
48
Citations
14378
World Ranking
6045
National Ranking
2726

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2018 - ACM Fellow For contributions to program synthesis
  • 2005 - Hellman Fellow

Overview

Rastislav Bodik is affiliated with the University of Washington in the United States and has a research background primarily in computer science and engineering. Their work spans multiple subfields, including hardware and architecture, computational mechanics, software, computer networks and communications, and industrial and manufacturing engineering.

The scientist's research covers a number of key topics: parallel computing and optimization techniques, software testing and debugging techniques, 3D shape modeling and analysis, manufacturing process and optimization, distributed and parallel computing systems, advanced numerical analysis techniques, and advanced malware detection techniques.

Frequent co-authors with whom Rastislav Bodik has collaborated include Sirui Lu, Dan Caşcaval, Mira Shalah, Maneesh Agrawala, and Adriana Schulz.

Rastislav Bodik has published extensively in venues such as the Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages, arXiv (Cornell University), Computer Graphics Forum, Formal Methods in System Design, and Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research).

Notable recent publications include:

  • Differentiable 3D CAD Programs for Bidirectional Editing, 2022, Computer Graphics Forum
  • Verifying and improving Halide's term rewriting system with program synthesis, 2020, Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages
  • Grisette: Symbolic Compilation as a Functional Programming Library, 2023, Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages
  • A Lineage-Based Referencing DSL for Computer-Aided Design, 2023, Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages
  • Learning inductive invariants by sampling from frequency distributions, 2020, Formal Methods in System Design

Rastislav Bodik has received professional recognition including the ACM Fellow award in 2018 for contributions to program synthesis and the Hellman Fellowship in 2005.

Best Publications

  • Programming With Models: Writing Statistical Algorithms for General Model Structures With NIMBLE

    Perry de Valpine;Daniel Turek;Christopher J. Paciorek;Clifford Anderson-Bergman

  • Mining specifications

    Glenn Ammons;Rastislav Bodík;James R. Larus

  • A view of the parallel computing landscape

    Krste Asanovic;Rastislav Bodik;James Demmel;Tony Keaveny

  • Combinatorial sketching for finite programs

    Armando Solar-Lezama;Liviu Tancau;Rastislav Bodik;Sanjit Seshia

  • Syntax-guided synthesis

    Rajeev Alur;Rastislav Bodik;Garvit Juniwal;Milo M. K. Martin

  • Syntax-Guided Synthesis.

    Rajeev Alur;Rastislav Bodík;Eric Dallal;Dana Fisman

  • Jungloid mining: helping to navigate the API jungle

    David Mandelin;Lin Xu;Rastislav Bodík;Doug Kimelman

  • A "flight data recorder" for enabling full-system multiprocessor deterministic replay

    Min Xu;Rastislav Bodik;Mark D. Hill

  • Program synthesis by sketching

    Rastislav Bodik;Armando Solar-Lezama

  • Refinement-based context-sensitive points-to analysis for Java

    Manu Sridharan;Rastislav Bodík

  • Focusing processor policies via critical-path prediction

    Brian Fields;Shai Rubin;Rastislav Bodík

  • ABCD: eliminating array bounds checks on demand

    Rastislav Bodík;Rajiv Gupta;Vivek Sarkar

  • Programming by sketching for bit-streaming programs

    Armando Solar-Lezama;Rodric Rabbah;Rastislav Bodík;Kemal Ebcioğlu

  • Thin slicing

    Manu Sridharan;Stephen J. Fink;Rastislav Bodik

  • Syntax-guided synthesis

    Rajeev Alur;Rastislav Bodik;Garvit Juniwal;Milo M. K. Martin

  • Demand-driven points-to analysis for Java

    Manu Sridharan;Denis Gopan;Lexin Shan;Rastislav Bodík

  • A lightweight symbolic virtual machine for solver-aided host languages

    Emina Torlak;Rastislav Bodik

  • Sketching concurrent data structures

    Armando Solar-Lezama;Christopher Grant Jones;Rastislav Bodik

  • Growing solver-aided languages with rosette

    Emina Torlak;Rastislav Bodik

  • A serializability violation detector for shared-memory server programs

    Min Xu;Rastislav Bodík;Mark D. Hill

  • Synthesizing highly expressive SQL queries from input-output examples

    Chenglong Wang;Alvin Cheung;Rastislav Bodik

Frequent Co-Authors

Rajiv Gupta
Rajiv Gupta University of California, Riverside
Mark D. Hill
Mark D. Hill University of Wisconsin–Madison
Sanjit A. Seshia
Sanjit A. Seshia University of California, Berkeley
Mary Lou Soffa
Mary Lou Soffa University of Virginia
Alvin Cheung
Alvin Cheung University of California, Berkeley
Satish Chandra
Satish Chandra Association for Computing Machinery
Rajeev Alur
Rajeev Alur University of Pennsylvania
Sumit Gulwani
Sumit Gulwani Microsoft (United States)

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