Research Description
Historically my main area of research area has been 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 most recent research focus is on how to bring our compiler expertise
to the world of scientists and engineers, and in particular how to
support effective and efficient programming in the dynamic programming
language MATLAB. To kick-start research in this area we are building a
toolkit, McLAB, to
support language extensions, compiler optimizations and transformations,
virtual machines and JITs, and program
understanding/refactoring tools for MATLAB and extensions of MATLAB.
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.
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How to reach me ...
... as a Professor in the School of Computer Science?
You can contact me about Computer Science related business
in my Computer Science office at the
following coordinates. I am
generally there Monday, Wednesday and Thursday mornings and all
day Friday.
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
... as Associate Dean (Academic) in the Faculty of Science?
I am also Associate Dean (Academic) in the Faculty of Science. My office
there is 304 Dawson Hall. Please contact me at Dawson Hall for Faculty
of Science business. You can
find my coordinates in the Faculty offices
here.
I am generally found there
Monday, Wednesday and Thursday afternoons and all day Tuesday.
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