Pavel Panchekha is an Assistant Professor in the School of Computing at the University of Utah, where he holds the Warnock Chair for Junior Faculty. He completed his PhD at the Paul G. Allen School for Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington, where he was advised by Michael D. Ernst and Zachary Tatlock. He has been awarded fellowships by the NSF, the ARCS foundation, Adobe Research, and the Wissner-Slivka foundation, and received his BS in mathematics from MIT. His paper on the Herbie numerical analysis and repair tool won the 2015 Distinguished Paper Award at PLDI. His research focuses on developing programming language techniques to meet challenges from all areas of computer science.