Thomas Porter
thomasjp@umich.edu
About me: I am a first year CSE PhD student at the University of Michigan. I work in the Future of Programming Lab with Cyrus Omar. I am interested in programming languages, proof assistants, editor design, and intelligent tutoring systems, and in combining them to reinvent education in the formal sciences.
Current Research: I am currently working on an incrementalized theory of total type error localization🔗. The idea is that to maintain typing information during editing, it is too inefficient to rerun the analysis from scratch after each edit. Instead we want to reuse the typing information from the previous program state and intelligently update it at each edit. I am using bidirectional information flow and order maintenance data structures to accomplish this.