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Martin Odersky leads the programming research group at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL). His research interests encompass fundamental and applied aspects of programming languages, including semantics, type systems, programming language design, and compiler construction. Odersky's primary focus lies in integrating object-oriented and functional programming paradigms. He has contributed to various language designs, including Pizza and GJ Functional Nets. Odersky was a key figure in the development of Java and is the co-designer of its generics. He is currently best known for his work on the Scala programming language, which unifies functional programming and object-oriented programming while remaining interoperable with Java and .NET. Odersky completed his doctorate at ETH Zurich in 1989 and has held positions at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center and Yale University. He became a professor at EPFL in 1999 and is also an associate editor for the Journal of Functional Programming, as well as being actively involved in the conference scene as a chair for events like ICFP and ECOOP.
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne • Lausanne
Leading the programming research group and overseeing academic projects in programming languages.
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