Dr. Jana Dunfield

Associate Professor

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Biography

Jana Dunfield is an Associate Professor at Queen's University, specializing in programming languages and logic from a type systems perspective. Her research focuses on incremental computation, utilizing types to guide the automation of program generation that can respond asymptotically faster to changing inputs. She works on union and intersection refinement types to represent and verify a diverse set of program properties. Additionally, her research explores advanced type systems which can complicate type checking, making type checkers and associated technologies like SMT solvers attractive targets for incrementalization. However, generating correct incremental programs necessitates meticulous checking of the properties and relationships among the components of the computation.

Research Interests

Requirements for Queen's University

Master Program
Requirements
GPA Requirement
Required:3.3
TOEFL
Listening
Required:20
Reading
Required:22
Writing
Required:24
Speaking
Required:22
Total
Required:88
IELTS
Overall
Required:7
Prerequisites
Honours Bachelor degree Background in Computing, Mathematics, Statistics, or Engineering
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Specialization Notes

Department of Computing offers research-based, project-based, and course-based patterns.