Sunday, June 30th 2024 @ Stata Center, MIT

Session  Start End Speaker Current Affiliation Talk Title
Introduction 10:00 AM 10:03 AM Organizing Committee     
10:03 AM 10:10 AM Daniela Rus Professor of EECS at MIT and Director of CSAIL Welcome
10:10 AM 10:25 AM Monica Lam Professor of CS, Stanford University Before COMMITing
Early Years 10:25 AM 10:40 AM Bill Thies Co-founder Everwell Compilers Without Borders: Mapping Applications to Paper, Plastic and Household Devices
10:40 AM 10:55 AM Michael Gordon Cofounder and Chief Scientist, Aarno Labs Aarno Labs (or How I Got the Government to Pay for the Grad School Life Indefinitely)
10:55 AM 11:10 AM Mike Taylor Professor, University of Washington Reflections of Post MIT Academic Journey and Some Fun History
11:10 AM 11:25 AM Mark Stephenson Principal Research Scientist, NVIDIA Collaborative Compilation
Lunch 11:25 AM 12:45 PM      
Middle Years 12:45 PM 1:00 PM Marek Olszewski Founder, Celo My journey and Tribute to Saman
12:45 PM 1:00 PM Jason Ansel Principal Engineer, Meta PyTorch 2 + Halide: Bringing together my work in grad school and industry
1:00 PM 1:15 PM Jessica Ray Member, Technical Staff, MIT Lincoln Laboratory Representing State Machines with Ternary Content Addressable Memories
1:15 PM 1:30 PM Fredrik Kjolstad Assistant Professor of CS, Stanford University Four languages for Portability
1:30 PM 2:30 PM Walter Lee Software Engineer, Google Short Reflections by Former COMMIT Group Members
Andrew Lamb Staff Engineer, Influx Data
Jonathan Regan-Kelley Associate Professor of CS, MIT
Mangpo Phothilimthana Research Scientist, Google
Qin Chao Software Engineer, Google
Break 2:30 PM 3:00 PM  
Current Years 3:00 PM 3:15 PM Willow Ahrens COMMIT group Ph.D. Candidate, MIT Finch: Sparse and Structured Array Programming
3:15 PM 3:30 PM Jaeyeon Won COMMIT group Ph.D. Candidate, MIT The continuous tensor abstraction
3:30 PM 3:45 PM Tom Chen COMMIT group Ph.D. Candidate, MIT All you need is SLP
3:45 PM 4:00 PM Manya Bansal COMMIT group Ph.D. Candidate, MIT Data is all you need for fusion
4:00 PM 4:15 PM Ajay Brahmakshatriya COMMIT group Ph.D. Candidate, MIT Democratizing DSL development with BuildIt
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Reception 4:30 PM 5:30 PM      
Autobiography 5:30 PM 6:00 PM Saman Amarasinghe   Zero to Sixty in Thirty
Dinner, Toasts and a Roast 6:00 PM 8:30 PM Seth Amarasinghe    
Kalyan Veeramachaneni Principle Research Scientist, MIT and Founder and CEO, DataCebo  
Heidi Wyle Founder and CEO, Venti Technologies  
Chand Samaratunga Founder and ex-CEO of Lanka Internet Services  
Srini Devadas Professor of CS, MIT  
Martin Rinard Professor of CS, MIT  
Pranita Amarasinghe    

Celebrate Saman turning The Big 60!