Dr. Oliver Bračevac

Programming Languages Research Engineer @ Galois, Inc.
Former Postdoc @ Purdue CS and PurPL.

[Research Statement]    [Teaching Statement]

My general interests are programming languages and compilers. I explore new ways of programming complex systems, in order to make them simpler, safer, more robust, and more scalable.

I am a strong proponent of functional programming and formal methods, and a logician at heart.

News

Oct 3, 2023 Polymorphic Reachability Types conditionally accepted at POPL 2024!
Jul 1, 2023 I have joined Galois, Inc.
Jul 1, 2023 Graph IRs for Impure Higher-Order Languages accepted at OOPSLA 2023!
Dec 9, 2022 Compiling Parallel Symbolic Execution with Continuations accepted at ICSE 2023!
Jun 23, 2022 New paper at ECOOP: What If We Don’t Pop the Stack? The Return of 2nd-Class Values.

Selected Publications

  1. OOPSLA
    Graph IRs for Impure Higher-Order Languages: Making Aggressive Optimizations Affordable with Precise Effect Dependencies
    Oliver Bračevac, Guannan Wei, Songlin Jia, Supun Abeysinghe, Luke Jiang, Yuyan Bao, and Tiark Rompf. 2023 PDF
  2. ICSE
    Compiling Parallel Symbolic Execution with Continuations
    Guannan Wei, Songlin Jia, Ruiqi Gao, Haotian Deng, Shangyin Tan, Oliver Bračevac, and Tiark Rompf. 2023 PDF
  3. Polymorphic Reachability Types: Tracking Freshness, Aliasing, and Separation in Higher-Order Generic Programs
    Guannan Wei, Oliver Bračevac, Songlin Jia, Yuyan Bao, and Tiark Rompf. 2023 PDF
  4. ECOOP
    What If We Don’t Pop the Stack? The Return of 2nd-Class Values
    Anxhelo Xhebraj, Oliver Bračevac, Guannan Wei, and Tiark Rompf. 2022 PDF
  5. OOPSLA
    Reachability Types: Tracking Aliasing and Separation in Higher-Order Functional Programs
    Yuyan Bao, Guannan Wei, Oliver Bračevac, Yuxuan Jiang, Qiyang He, and Tiark Rompf. 2021 PDF
  6. OOPSLA
    Compiling Symbolic Execution with Staging and Algebraic Effects
    Guannan Wei, Oliver Bračevac, Shangyin Tan, and Tiark Rompf. 2020 PDF
  7. ICFP
    Versatile Event Correlation with Algebraic Effects
    Oliver Bračevac, Nada Amin, Guido Salvaneschi, Sebastian Erdweg, Patrick Eugster, and Mira Mezini. 2018 PDF
  8. OOPSLA
    A Co-Contextual Formulation of Type Rules and its Application to Incremental Type Checking
    Sebastian Erdweg, Oliver Bračevac, Edlira Kuci, Matthias Krebs, and Mira Mezini. 2015 PDF