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Heather Miller's research interests include distributed concurrent computation and programming languages with a focus on data-centric, data-intensive approaches and eventually-consistent systems relevant to edge computing. A major recurrent theme in her work is composability, which seeks to enable the construction of complex distributed systems through the composition of well-understood components to ensure correct construction. Her projects encompass programming models and type systems that facilitate the design of new functional distributed systems, distributable closures, flexible extensible and performant serialization methods, as well as asynchronous concurrent programming techniques such as futures and promises, and deterministic concurrent dataflow. She also works on the Scala programming language, which has implications for her research.
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