Name:Tom Van Cutsem

Bio:

I am a professor of Computer Science at the Software Languages Lab of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, and a post-doc researcher of the Flanders Research Foundation. In 2008, I completed my doctoral dissertation on advanced programming language support for mobile ad hoc networks. I am co-designer of the AmbientTalk programming language. Since 2010 I have contributed to the ECMAScript (aka Javascript) standardization process, in particular, together with Mark S. Miller I designed its Proxy API.

I’m a member of the jury of the annual Vlaamse Programmeerwedstrijd (Flemish Programming Contest), a regional hands-on programming contest for students and professionals, inspired by ACM programming contests.

Country:Belgium

Affiliation:Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs

Research interests:Programming languages, Language design & implementation, Distributed systems, Concurrent and parallel programming, Mobile computing, Javascript