Eric Koskinen, PhD

Computer Scientist

Eric Koskinen’s 15+ year career has ranged from the practical to the theoretical. He is currently an Assistant Professor at Stevens Institute of Technology. Previously, he was a software engineer at Amazon.com, Research Staff Member at IBM TJ Watson, Visiting Professor at Yale University, Visiting Professor at New York University, and holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Cambridge.

Eric’s expertise ranges from low-level systems infrastructure such as operating systems, networks, high-performance servers to high-level concerns such as software architecture, software engineering, programming languages, and compilers.

Summary of Qualifications

Active researcher and expert in programming languages, having published 18 scientific papers in top computer science conferences/journals, including POPL, PLDI, PPoPP, CAV, SPAA, etc.
Awarded a $800,000 grant from DARPA on program analysis for Cybersecurity.
Awarded a $250,000 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to pursue foundational research on programming languages and concurrency.
Served as the Conference Chair of a top computer science conference (LICS) and as a Program Committee Member of top conferences, including POPL, ICALP, and SPAA.
Taught as a Professor at New York University.
Served as Examiner for PhD Dissertations at Columbia University and New York University.
Gave over 30 invited talks at universities and institutions around the world, including Oxford, MIT, Cornell, Rice, Tokyo University, ETH Zurich, IBM, Microsoft, NEC, and Oracle.
Received his PhD in Computer Science from the University of Cambridge.

Areas of Expertise

Web applications and web languages
Mobile infrastructure
Operating systems
Network/distributed systems
Multithreaded applications
Algorithms
Programming languages (C, C++, C#, Java, Perl, Python)
Linux/Unix
Kernel/embedded software

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