Biography

Olivier Flückiger is a PhD student in Northeastern University’s College of Computer and Information Science. His primary field of study is Programming Languages, and he is advised by Professor Jan Vitek. Flückiger is a graduate of the University of Bern, where he received both his BS and MS degrees in Computer Science.

Education

• MS in Computer Science, University of Bern
• BS in Computer Science, University of Bern

About Me

• Hometown: Switzerland
• Field of Study: Programming Languages
• PhD Advisor: Jan Vitek

What are your research interests?

My passion lies in language implementation – creating the tools and techniques required to get from powerful abstractions to efficient execution.

What’s one problem you’d like to solve with your research/work?

I am investigating techniques to efficiently execute hard to optimize programming languages.