Laurie Hendren's Home Page

Laurie J. Hendren
School of Computer Science (SOCS)
Faculty of Science
McGill University
Montreal, Canada

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How to reach me ...

Please note that I am an sabbatic leave at Oxford for the 2010-2011 academic year. I may be reached using my McGill e-mail below.
E-mail: hendren at cs.mcgill.ca
Office: 228 McConnell Engineering Building
Office Phone: (514) 398-7391
Office FAX: (514)398-3883
Mailing Address:
Laurie Hendren, Professor
School of Computer Science
McGill University
McConnell Engineering Building, Room 318
3480 University Street
Montreal, Quebec H3A 2A7
CANADA

What's New?

McLAB - a compiler and VM toolkit for Scientific Languages like MATLAB
New Research Opportunities (with funding)
Official release of the abc AspectJ compiler, a complete implementation of a compiler for AspectJ that is designed for extensibility and optimization. Try it out!
Lots of people are using Soot, our framework for analyzing and transforming Java. We have a new list of users of Soot, let us know if you would like to be added.
Here is some information about the AspectJ programming language and AspectJ compilers .

Other Information

Teaching 2009/10

COMP 621 - Progam Analysis and Transformations (Winter 2010) (previously called Optimizing Compilers)
COMP 762 Advanced Topics: Programming I Advanced Static and Dynamic Compiler Techniques (Fall 2009)

Other not-so-recently taught courses

Research Description

My main area of research is the development of compilers for object-oriented and aspect-oriented programming languages. I also have a long-standing interest in pointer analysis and program analysis frameworks. My current research interests are:

The continued development and new applications of Soot, and framework for the analysis and optmization for Java.
A joint project with Professor Oege de Moor's group at Oxford on compiling and language design for aspect-oriented languages. This work relies heavily on the jointly-developed abc compiler for AspectJ.
The application of program analysis for tool development, including tools to aid in program understanding and program development. Examples of such projects include developing a Soot plugin for Eclipse, work on visualizing program executions, and the development of dynamic metrics.

An important facet of my work is that new research ideas should be developed along with software infrastructures to test those ideas. This has led to the development of many publicly available software frameworks, more details can be found on the group's web site at http://www.sable.mcgill.ca . Our research group hopes that other groups will use their software, and will contribute new pieces back them so that all compiler groups can benefit from the work.

Maintained by Laurie J. Hendren Last modified Sun Jan 3 19:14:21 EST 2010. [HOME]
Compiler research projects: Soot, a Java analysis, optimization and transformation toolkit ---- abc, an AspectJ compiler. ---- McLab, a compiler and VM toolkit for MATLAB